LFR - MoP Edition
LFR, or Looking for Raid, is a tool that most World of Warcraft (WoW) players know, love, and utterly detest. Strange relationship, no? It’s a method designed to appeal to casual players that simply don’t have the time to invest into a “legitimate” raid of regular or heroic difficulty, and is frequently used by those more hardcore players in order to bolster their equipment to give a potential edge on some fights. Every bit counts! It was introduced with the Cataclysm expansion, specifically for the 4.3 Dragon Soul raid. At the time, bosses would just drop whatever and you’d try to roll on things—akin to dungeon bosses. That ended up being quckily abused as players would loot on items they didn’t need for their friends, or just to troll other players “for the lulz”. With Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard has made it so that raid bosses—at least Sha of Anger and LFR since I’ve not done any else—drop an item based on your class and spec automatically into your inventory. Funnily enough, this is more often than not Gold. Yay. We dove into LFR last night, running through each of them one by one. I started out on my Pandaren Monk, Shuxue, and wound up getting a pretty nice 478 fist weapon that I dumped 1500 valor into to upgrade +8 iLvl to a 484. She’s 2 iLvl away now from the final set of LFR queues, and wearing a 442 body… so if I get lucky on dungeons I should probably be able to reach it. After a quick break, we started again—this time I was on my Worgen Hunter, Kreuss. While we cleared the bosses out without much difficulty, I ended up short changed with nothing new to actually use. Danny wound up 2-piecing though, lucky punk. :P The server hiccuped on Lei Shi—the boss that drops pretty much everything I can make tremendous use of right now. It was awful. :(