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Getting 645 followers.
LFR is so so so easy. Feels like you have to try harder to wipe than to succeed.
It's pretty clear that Normal is where Blizzard wants people to move to, and the built in group finder does make it easier to get into a PUG. LFR gear should help make normal PUGs more successful as well.
It's pretty clear that Normal is where Blizzard wants people to move to, and the built in group finder does make it easier to get into a PUG. LFR gear should help make normal PUGs more successful as well.
Really should be though, I feel like MoP LFR was actually too hard for what it was, especially some of those fights in ToT. It's fine once people get some gear and good players start taking their alts through it and stuff, but, the first few weeks have been pretty rough in every LFR.
Is there a good addon for seeing timers for DOTs on the action bars instead of under the target portrait? I guess I could move portraits around or find some way to have enemy debuffs display somewhere else, but on the actual spell that causes the debuff feels like a pretty consise way of doing it.
SiKotikJ30
Member
I just finished my LFR. Thanks for the info earlier, all. Went well but I'm not sure how it couldn't with how easy everything is. No loot though 
So here is my other question, how often can you run it and get loot? I see where it says I've already looted the three, is it daily? Weekly? Thanks again.
So here is my other question, how often can you run it and get loot? I see where it says I've already looted the three, is it daily? Weekly? Thanks again.I just finished my LFR. Thanks for the info earlier, all. Went well but I'm not sure how it couldn't with how easy everything is. No loot though
Weekly. I think you can keep running it and spend seals to do multiple bonus rolls, though.
LFR gear sucks. I guess I could use the helm and trink. The 2h I can get in... 2 weeks sucks.
Edit: Oh wait, Tectus in't in this wing. I have loot from the first two bosses, but I can't use the gear from any. I hope there's no hidden personal loot buff after going last week with no loot in normal or heroic.
Edit: Oh wait, Tectus in't in this wing. I have loot from the first two bosses, but I can't use the gear from any. I hope there's no hidden personal loot buff after going last week with no loot in normal or heroic.
It's the garrison invasion. You get a weekly reward from it.
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Orochinagis
Member
Got one of those with 57% lol
Yup, that's pretty damn good. Thanks!
I felt 5.4 system needed some tweaks and would have been great... I really liked the way flex worked from what I've played last year, it was puggable but required some level of coordination and the winged nature of it encouraged spontaneous group forming when you had some time.
In comparison right now I don't have time and my schedule is usually too erratic to commit to even casual raiding guild and having to do entire raids is kinda intimidating... especially since as of now normals seem to be harder than 5.4 flex.
Shame, really. LFR was totally gutted and normals, right now, seem ill-suited to their function, at least from my perspective.
In comparison right now I don't have time and my schedule is usually too erratic to commit to even casual raiding guild and having to do entire raids is kinda intimidating... especially since as of now normals seem to be harder than 5.4 flex.
Shame, really. LFR was totally gutted and normals, right now, seem ill-suited to their function, at least from my perspective.
You can, but just from the extra roll, not the boss though.
The chance is extremely low, I think I tried getting the staff from Imersus in SoO like several times and all I got was gold. Hopefully you are lucky, but I would save the rerolls for normal Highmaul.
Gear is 640 and even 630 follower missions can net you better gear(645). I say wait it out and slowly get heroic gear and get to 630 where I see lots of groups are using that ilvl to accept people into their raid.
NotMyUsername
Member
Focused on the Cata meta achievements and now have one or two within each group that I need at least one other person. Anyone here interested? Need a US Alliance person for...
Cata Dungeon:
Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5281
Cata Raid:
Stay Chill - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5304 (might be able to figure a way to get this on my own)
Firelands Raid:
Only the Penitent - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5799 (needs six people. Will likely make an LFG group for this)
Dragon Soul Raid:
Holding Hands - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6175
Deck Defender - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6105
So if anyone needs any of these let me know and we can plan to do it next week since I've ran everything this week already. For the dungeon and raids needed I'd be willing to help work on the other achievements within as well if desired but I could also clear up to the particular encounters before inviting to make it a quick drop-in-drop-out sort of thing if that works as well.
Cata Dungeon:
Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5281
Cata Raid:
Stay Chill - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5304 (might be able to figure a way to get this on my own)
Firelands Raid:
Only the Penitent - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=5799 (needs six people. Will likely make an LFG group for this)
Dragon Soul Raid:
Holding Hands - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6175
Deck Defender - http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6105
So if anyone needs any of these let me know and we can plan to do it next week since I've ran everything this week already. For the dungeon and raids needed I'd be willing to help work on the other achievements within as well if desired but I could also clear up to the particular encounters before inviting to make it a quick drop-in-drop-out sort of thing if that works as well.
JSoup
Banned
You can. Once you know what to do, it's pretty easy to solo.
just noticed earlier that the lvl 3 upgrades for barracks / dwarven bunker are 1200 resources each ouch
well I still dont have the achievement anyway, but still, gotta start saving up. I upgraded my tailoring and enchanting to lvl 3 earlier...I dont even know why really, as far as I know theres no new recipes it gives
edit: also I got a lvl 90 follower from the inn and its completely fucking with my quests now, and I couldnt deactivate him today, gotta wait for tomorow sigh
ouchwell I still dont have the achievement anyway, but still, gotta start saving up. I upgraded my tailoring and enchanting to lvl 3 earlier...I dont even know why really, as far as I know theres no new recipes it gives
edit: also I got a lvl 90 follower from the inn and its completely fucking with my quests now, and I couldnt deactivate him today, gotta wait for tomorow sigh
Cool thanks. I'm at 636 now and just started getting those 645 missions.
notworksafe
Member
a reasonable response from a reasonable person.
Started on Shadowmourne today. Got all the quests up to the shards completed and got a shard as well. Only 49 to go!
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Yeah, Stay Chill is pretty easy to do alone, especially if you have a lot of on demand self healing. Deck Defender is pretty easy to solo as well, but, maybe that is because I have a spammable sprint on my rogue, but, I got it on my second try no problem.
Deck defender can be soloed as range. Gotta be quick with the drakes.
ML?
Nice ww ring!
ML?
Nice ww ring!
master loot?
Bonus rolls affect only you and has nothing to do with the raids loot.
RandyBobandy
Banned
It does not feel good to fail a 91% 8 hour quest
eudaemonic
Member
Man... LFR. Someone was joking that no one is going to die and I laughed.
Then afterwards I realized... they were not joking.
No one died (that I noticed).
I think that pretty much sealed that I won't be doing LFR very often. Maybe once when each wing opens for giggles but that was way too boring.
Then afterwards I realized... they were not joking.
No one died (that I noticed).
I think that pretty much sealed that I won't be doing LFR very often. Maybe once when each wing opens for giggles but that was way too boring.
dude I didnt ask it, I was just saying what he meant by ML
RandyBobandy
Banned
Wasn't LFR decent in Mop?
LFR could still kill you in MOP. They really gutted it. You can tell they want people to stop using it by how stupidly easy it is and the fact it gives shit looking items.
They should have just killed it before WOD launched. Its insulting now
It was mostly boring and easy as well. I'm actually kind of glad it will be easy to breeze through LFR now. Instead of trying to do LFR like I did in MOP, i can try to find some people to do normal with.
NotMyUsername
Member
Stay Chill I only tried once and it might have been on 10m Heroic or 25m (I tend to run things higher than needed for the bonus gold and gear to sell). That said I killed the two "outer" fellows and then just stood around for the seven stacks to build and they had popped back up. I hopped over and rekilled the wind guy and the stack dropped before I could get back and add a stack to keep it going. I figure if I do it on 10m Normal AND simply weaken everyone evenly so I'm not rekilling folks and taking long enough for stacks to drop that I can easily keep the stack up while hopping around and killing.
Deck Defender I feel will rely on luck. I can't spam my enhance shaman dash with a 45 second CD so my range is a little limited and I found that I couldn't reliably get a drake down before they both got a shot off and then they'd land at the same time and I'd inevitably miss one. One attempt seemed to be going well and I think I only had one more grouping left so I popped my earth elemental to plop him on a swirly but then the whole thing blew up. I think I was so focused on it I missed a sapper.
So yeah, maybe I can get both solo. But I need someone for Holding Hands anyhow so I figured I'd just keep that person another ten minutes to get Deck Defender as well. If they didn't already have it then it's a benefit for both.
Stay Chill I'm fairly certain I could get on my own but I didn't really spend enough time checking out better options. I knew I'd have another week before finishing the meta anyhow since I had never been in Blackwing Descent before and had to run it Normal today so I could do Heroic next week. Got all the other achievements in there, though.
unknownstranger
Member
A lot of fights weren't designed well for LFR. MSV was ok but Garalon destroyed groups both before and after they added Determination. In WoD it seems like they're dedicated to removing some core mechanics from each boss for LFR that are in every other version.
Yea, Kargath didn't cleave when I was in LFR, the NPC's in the crowd didn't appear to be attacking anyone, and none of the ogre bosses did anything special. Well, one had an add that came.
Amazing Blizzard references. How do they come up with this stuff?
NotMyUsername
Member
Garalon and Durumu are still a couple of my favorite fights by mechanics in MoP yet they were the raid killers. Animus also caused wipes frequently enough, even down the road, because people always had their preferred method and there would rarely be a consensus before someone pulled.
I can't recall if the fight that turned people into Amber Monstrosities was an issue in LFR or it was just my guild that died a lot there and I'm remembering that.
unknownstranger
Member
That was the 5th boss in Heart of Fear. I remember having the least trouble with him in LFR. People either didn't know how or always broke CC on the 4th boss (first in that wing) and the last boss hit really hard and killed undergeared tanks.
NotMyUsername
Member
Probably thinking of the runs I did with my guild then. We died a LOT on that fellow.
Breaking CC wasn't that big of an issue in LFR on the first guy in that wing because it was just a big zergfest anyhow and everything died by AoE. I also don't recall having too many issues in LFR on the last boss but if that was mainly due to it being a tank check I could see how I could get lucky early on when undergeared tanks would be an issue instead of it being dumb DPS running about messing things up.
The last fight in MSV was pretty harsh with bad tanks.
I think the person who picks the tiny frail race as some sort of melee/close quarters class can't complain about that particular realism