Lost City Random Heroic Has Me Pissed!

[Cptan]

I can fully understand your frustration. I have been getting Lost City, GB, ToT, DM and SC only for past 5 weeks, queue and re-queue few times each day. The system just refuses to throw me into VP, BRC, HoH and SFK, not even a single run. The random heroic becomes so boring. GM's reply - Random is Random, alternatively select the specific one and forgo the valor points!!! Ridiculous Random Queue algorithm.

For this fight, I spread out the team as wide as possible, and focus on healer survival. The tank and healer can kill the boss, though is gonna take a longer time. So heavy dps at start to hurt the boss as much as possible. Usually I survived with 1 dps, healer and tank standing.

There is another post/video here that illustrates 5 melees fighting this boss. The team moved less, and emphasizes on dps to kill the boss fast.

[Mercurio]

I can fully understand your frustration. I have been getting Lost City, GB, ToT, DM and SC only for past 5 weeks, queue and re-queue few times each day. The system just refuses to throw me into VP, BRC, HoH and SFK, not even a single run. GM's reply - Random is Random, alternatively select the specific one and forgo the valor points!!! Ridiculous Random Queue algorithm.

The sad thing is that random is FAR from random in this case. Blizzard has said that they reduce the odds of you getting a heroic that you have cleared, so you tend to get ones that you haven't. For regular players, this means they get variety because in PuGs at this point, they are all clearable. For boxers who are soloing heroics and have trouble getting through certain mechanics in certain dungeons, this means the system ensures that we get the heroics that are our least favorite, and those that we enjoy (because we can actually finish them) rarely pop up.

Kind of funny that the developers have implemented a system for paying customers that does its best to give us the content we want least and minimize our ability to play the instances we want to.

BTW, if you have any doubt about the fact that random isn't random, here's some facts and data: About a year ago I found this troubling trend with WotLK heroics. I have eight teams that can do heroics, so I have eight chances every 15 minutes to see what the "random" heroic finder gives me. I was trying to get Occulus randomly for the blue drake mounts and recorded statistics for which heroic it gave each team. After 209 attempts, I got Occulus only four times. This was by far the least I got any heroic and I got six of the heroics over 17 times in that 209 attempts. With that big a sample size and the one heroic I wanted (out of the 16 possible) showing up only four times proved to me that the system is significantly skewed.

[Klesh]

Their LFD isn't random at all, search the general WoW forums on this site for at least 1 thread about it. You get instances you didnt clear yet 95% of the time. Since they removed the discovery part, it aint fun anymore to queue for heroics, as long as you didnt clear all.