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A simple situation: You queue up (for example) for Alaric’s sanctuary abyssal raid which has about 3-4 bosses so that’s about 20-45 minutes of gameplay before getting to alaric himself. The boss is hard, the 2 parties keep wiping. Suddenly a player without chrystalline aura says he needs to repair (which he can’t do since he can’t access his pet, so everyone would have to leave the entire raid, which would also mean that the entire raidparty would need to start from scratch after).
This is bad game design, you are effectively punishing 7 other players for 1 player being f2p.
Why?
Unless i am missing something and there is a possibility for the f2p player to repair his gear without a pet? I don’t think so.
Solution1: Make repairing without a pet possible in 8 man raids (since 4 mans are usually very short or “only” a guardian fight, so requeuing is much less of a problem)
Solution2: Give us an option in partyfinder to only allow people to apply who have chrystalline aura… This is very toxic and i would prefer not having to do this.
Solution3: Get rid of the entire repair function. It’s outdated and a remnant from past wow days. People would not even notice.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk have a nice day!