Do You Want To Know A Secret?

It's not really much of a secret, but I didn't want to ruin the title. My little hint is not to run LFR and/or LFD on the night before reset day.

LFR was the first attempt on my Death Knight to complete the second half of Fall of Deathwing. I knew it was going to be chaos when I teleported at the beginning of the instance on 3/4 and a mount of bodies where Ultraxion had beat them to a pulp. I fail to understand how difficult it can be to standstill go through your entire rotation and then once every minute or so press a big purple button in the middle of your screen.

When a LFR starts wiping the biggest issue is retaining its Tank and Healers, and in particular the healers due to requiring 6 of them and ignoring the DPS who queued as Healer to bypass the 10 minutes wait. So after a few minutes a ready check was taken still missing 1 tank and 2 healers and then they promptly started the fight. One minute later we are all roaming around in the grey world of the Caverns of Time with a big angel hovering above us.

The bickering and shouting starts and half the party leaves, 10 minutes later still short of a tank and 2 healers someone starts the raid again. Do they ever learn?

Next up LFD on my stumpy little Warrior. I have completed all the New 5 Man Heroics on this character but was still armed with a Season 9 PvP 2 handed sword. If I can't do LFR I might as well complete a few LFD's. Twice I got End Time and twice I left group in utter frustration, the worst bit was when the healer left group in the middle of a boss fight. Luckily in the wasted hour I did down 1 boss and bagged myself a 2 hander for the pain.

My tip of the day is complete the groups and raid aspects at the beginning of the week, and go fishing before reset day.

P.S.. I also heard LFR is bad over the weekend. so if you are on the EU realms stick to Wednesday and Thursdays.

With A Little Help From My Friends

As a follow up from the last post, I have received some more information, which I wanted to share.

Prior to writing the last post, I tried to do some research. Not being a super sleuth or really wanting to spend time in the Beta, I thought I would ask someone who cared. In this case I deliberately chose to go to the Gold Queen for advice. Not knowing what to expect from a fellow blogger, I eagerly waited for a reply.

No response was forth coming, I check the Gold Queen blog, I checked Bob's e-mail account, and after a certain amount of time and a lack of material for a new post I decided to go ahead anyway.

One day after I posted, I received an acknowledgement from Matojo who is looking after the blogsite whilst Alyzande is working on other projects. Alyzande wrote the day after, and the upshot from the e-mails is that because it is still in Beta we just don't know. What we do know though is that there is no more Head Enchants and Shoulder enchants are losing the grind and becoming an Inscription gold making tool.

What I find amazing is the effort and care provided by the gaming community. Previously I had only read about the help and support from people like the much missed Larisa, and only usually see the trolls in action.

I guess a post about nice things and nice people is going to attract the Trolls, like a red rag to a Tauren.

Thanks all.