Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:23 pm
Sunsong Ranch
Garrisons
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In Cataclysm, I only needed a few hours a week to cap valor for raiding. I was only in on the end of Wrath, but I don't remember that being a huge time sink, either. If I needed rep with a faction, I could equip a tabard and run dungeons. LFR (Mists and Warlords) was a problem if you wanted to queue as anything other than a healer, and that became one of the most important ways of getting gear if you weren't already raiding with a guild. Even if you got into a group, each wing could easily take more than an hour (so clearing all required LFRs in a week could easily take 8 hours, and that's separate from raiding with your guild).
Maybe garrisons aren't required for raiding, but the time I invested in mine killed all my motivation for running anything else. All I really want to do is run PVE content to run more PVE content. If I'm not ready for raiding, I shouldn't have to grind rep, run garrison missions, or empty my gold reserves into the AH. Oh, and that's just to be competent in Heroic dungeons...I didn't even make it to Warlords LFR because I was just sick of playing by that point.
On second thought, let's not go to TechReport. It's infested by crypto bull****.