Post by hatman555
The raid lock out system is not functioning correctly, but blizzard does not want to admit it because it will take some addition work to fix it.
For Normal content the system is working wonderfully. You can join any raid as long as that raid has progress as far as you have. Also, in a multiple boss raid, you will not lose the ability to kill the bosses you missed until you down new content with your new group. This means that if you kill Magmaw and ODS, then join a raid with only Nefarian left, you will not be saved to that raid and lose out on killing Maloriak, Chimaeron, or Atramedes, UNTILL you have killed Nefarian. Wipe all you want and then leave, you will not be saved.
Heroic lock outs are broken, they SHOULD function like normal lock outs, but they don't. Right now this is a problem for guilds that have not learned how problematic they can be.
Here are a couple of examples that will explain to you how they are broken:
When you kill a boss on heroic in 10 or 25 man mode you are now saved to only doing heroics in this mode. If you kill Chimaeron on 25 man on heroic, you can not take 10 people from that raid group and make a heroic 10 group.
When you kill a boss on heroic, and then switch the dificulty to normal and kill another boss, only the 25 people that just killed that boss on normal are able to kill the next boss on heroic. This is an important one, so i will give an example. Your raid kills Chimaeron on heroic, then switches the raid to normal, you ask one of your tanks and one of your healers to step out to let two more DPS from guild come in and kill Atramedes on normal. You kill atramedes on normal, then switch the difficulty back to heroic, you re-invite your tank and healer and try to proceed to kill Maloriak on heroic. As your healer and tank zone in, they will be blocked with a message that reads something along the lines of "you are already saved to a heroic lock out". The only people that would be able to try to kill Maloriak on heroic are the 25 people that just killed Atramedes on normal.
10 people, split into 2, 5 man, raid groups. They each set their raid to heroic, and zone in. They DO NOT kill anything, all they do is zone in. One raid leaves, breaks its group and is invited by the other raid to complete a 10 man raid. Upon trying to enter the raid, they will be told that they are already saved to a heroic lock out. SAVED with out killing anything, simply because they had made 2 different raids on heroic and zone in.
This system is broken. It needs to be fix because it hurts skilled players that might not have reliable guilds to play for.
Cheers,
Hat