I'm with you. When someone recently said they were going to park their alts in another guild my reaction was WTF???
A good guild was a requirement to get epic gear. Now world quests just shit epic gear out in seconds and you can even see on the map which item you'll get.
Every time someone says that god invents a bigger mouthbreather. Guild had to sit people on N'Zoth because even with Mythic geared people in the raid (ilvl 475/130) you can't carry them. Your perception of "easy" is not the same as for these people, mostly because you obviously don't associate with the bottom 50%. They are invisible to you. If you really want to look into the abyss go to LFR N'Zoth.
LFR is a terrible metric to gauge the player base. You and I both know that the majority of those players can do at least a normal raid easily. The idea behind LFR is flawed. Flawed in how it allows people to do the encounters with little to no knowledge of each encounter and still complete it. Thats why it just pisses people off that they release an LFR encounter with a mechanic that can actually wipe the raid.
Sure there are, but at the bottom end a lot of people are not entering the normal raid scene. The usual progression would be normal → heroic → mythic for new players as they improve. LFR removed a lot of the people that could be interested in raiding from the equation because of the ease of access.
The players I talked with can't be assed to learn mechanics or do "progress" raids, where you basically have to learn the mechanics and wipe a few times when undergeared at the start of the expansions. They want the epic loot, but aren't willing to invest time into it. These people are (and never will be) raiding material.
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These numbers don't mean what you think they mean. They are broken down to freely associated groups (from logs), and you have no idea which groups have just renamed themsevles, have different player setups, are pickup groups, or worse: groups that got paid for the kill. To throw numbers out there: For the EU I have in wowprogress: 15261 guilds with at least 1/12 N, and 6120 of them have at least 1/12 M. 12/12 H reaches into 9215, so around 9000 guilds have 12/12 heroic. The 1558 of 15261 guilds in the database have 12/12 M, so around 10% of all raiding guilds in the database are top tier and have 12/12 M. Who would've thought?
There is a lot of heroic guilds And they usually do normal first. At the most they do 1-3 mobs in mythic and are happy with that.
I normally would have agreed with this, but things are bad out there. I gave up trying to get the 15th anniversary mount because people simply couldn't kill LK at all. I was in a LFR raid in Legion...forgot where, and people kept wiping and zerging on yard trash. Have you seen an entire raid wipe on yard trash not once but multiple times?
