Originally Posted by Tweeker
I think it'd improve the quality of LFR's over night.
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Let me tell you a story about the quality of LFR groups. About a year and a half ago when I was starting to learn German, I switched WoW into German and played on a German server. This was towards the end of MoP, and my first LFR was one of the earlier MoP raids. I'd never done this particular raid before on any character, knew nothing about the fight, was not using any boss mod, and could only understand about 30% of the text in-game, and even less of what people were typing in chat.
After about 5 minutes of attacking a particular boss, and the boss healing himself to full repeatedly, I noticed that every time he healed, he gained a magic buff. I was playing a warlock. The next buff came, none of the many players in the raid with magic-dispelling abilities dispelled it, and the boss healed to full again. The
next time, I pulled out an imp and used it to dispel the buff. The boss died shortly thereafter.
I really don't think this situation would have been improved by having more DBM users in the group. Having DBM flash the screen and throw up a message with "Super Mega Healing Buff appears!" isn't going to help if the player doesn't already know that (a) the buff is dispellable, (b) their class can dispel it, and (c) they should dispel it as quickly as possible. And if they already know those things -- or are able to figure it out on the fly -- then they don't need DBM flashing the screen and throwing up extra messages.