I would like to see the higher raiding difficulty levels made available through LFR.
While LFR has its own share of problems, it is preferable to me over the group finder. I just absolutely do not enjoy raiding through the group finder. It isn't fun. I all but entirely hate it. I'd be happier if I could que up for higher difficulty raid versions through LFR.
The joy killing with group finder starts before you ever apply to join a group, as so many of the group finder raid descriptions contain key intimidation phrases such as "don't suck," "baddies will be kicked," and similar things along these lines. This doesn't make me want to join that group. Even if I'm familiar with the fights and reasonably confident that I can contribute, I'm not going to be comfortable with that kind of attitude in the people I'm playing with.
Once you make it into a group and things get started, God forbid any slight thing goes wrong because then the Negativity Boss ports in straight from Hell and casts 'Happiness Sucker' on everyone. It's a nasty debuff that plants a big dark cloud straight on your face which slowly leeches away your joy, and it tends to continuously stack for the entire duration of the raid.
The raid mechanics are one thing; people expect you to be an expert on every detail of every fight. Beyond that though, people think you're supposed to have faction boss calibur abilities or something with how they act. Everyone seems to be expected to perform as if they have even better gear than the best available in the raid they're progressing through.
If you're a healer, you're practically expected to be able to give everyone a Super Boss Buff that regenerates a billion health per millisecond. If you're a tank, you're expected to be so tough and hardy that you don't even need heals anyway; just pull out your pocket mirror now and then and gaze at all of your awesomeness for an invincibility buff. If you're a dps... oh man don't even get me started on the hellish expectations that are always placed on the dps!!
More often than not, raiding is tense, uncomfortable, and a breeding ground for drama. I would rather wipe ten times with people who are easy to be around and play WoW with than I would to one-shot a full heroic clear with people who make me uncomfortable and who I just do not enjoy being around.
A lot of these same problems are encountered in LFR, yes... but it's on a more manageable level, stress wise.
While LFR has its own share of problems, it is preferable to me over the group finder. I just absolutely do not enjoy raiding through the group finder. It isn't fun. I all but entirely hate it. I'd be happier if I could que up for higher difficulty raid versions through LFR.
The joy killing with group finder starts before you ever apply to join a group, as so many of the group finder raid descriptions contain key intimidation phrases such as "don't suck," "baddies will be kicked," and similar things along these lines. This doesn't make me want to join that group. Even if I'm familiar with the fights and reasonably confident that I can contribute, I'm not going to be comfortable with that kind of attitude in the people I'm playing with.
Once you make it into a group and things get started, God forbid any slight thing goes wrong because then the Negativity Boss ports in straight from Hell and casts 'Happiness Sucker' on everyone. It's a nasty debuff that plants a big dark cloud straight on your face which slowly leeches away your joy, and it tends to continuously stack for the entire duration of the raid.
The raid mechanics are one thing; people expect you to be an expert on every detail of every fight. Beyond that though, people think you're supposed to have faction boss calibur abilities or something with how they act. Everyone seems to be expected to perform as if they have even better gear than the best available in the raid they're progressing through.
If you're a healer, you're practically expected to be able to give everyone a Super Boss Buff that regenerates a billion health per millisecond. If you're a tank, you're expected to be so tough and hardy that you don't even need heals anyway; just pull out your pocket mirror now and then and gaze at all of your awesomeness for an invincibility buff. If you're a dps... oh man don't even get me started on the hellish expectations that are always placed on the dps!!
More often than not, raiding is tense, uncomfortable, and a breeding ground for drama. I would rather wipe ten times with people who are easy to be around and play WoW with than I would to one-shot a full heroic clear with people who make me uncomfortable and who I just do not enjoy being around.
A lot of these same problems are encountered in LFR, yes... but it's on a more manageable level, stress wise.