The troubles with modern MMO's...

[August]

Originally Posted by Lagaidh [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I enjoyed Burning Crusade and a majority of Lich King, but as said upthread, attitudes really changed with the instance tools. I was still in a guild for raiding. I don't know if there was or became a way to do pick up raids with a UI tool as there was for dungeon instances.

I did pop back in for Cataclysm, but my class had been changed and played like other classes I didn't care to play. At that point, I found this.

There was the raid finder.

To paint the picture, you basically got queued into a raid (that also had 10, 25-man, heroic versions, and i believe there's now 'extreme'?) that was basically heroic-level tank and spank. Most mobs instead of 3-6 abilities had 1 or 2.

What's more, if your raid wiped, the whole raid got buffed by like 5% stats or something, so eventually everyone was so OP you could clear the mobs.

I popped back during MoP launch to this travesty, and quit promptly after running my first 'LFR'