At this point you may just want to wait as it gets closer to the next expansion. You can be pretty sure they will do what they did for the cloak in pandaria and will add in some buff that makes you get more of the components faster. They are also adding in some daily quests I believe to give the abbrogator stones/rune stone things.
Yeah, they really shit the bed with LFR in WoD. In MoP it was pretty much perfect, but apparently they either listened to the whiners or they have still have a few poopsockers devs who think that the pleabs deserve shittier, worthless loot and it would be enough incentive for people to run LFR. Their "let them eat cake" attitude in concerns to LFR is one of the big reasons for the massive drop in subs.
How about the same kind of loot it's been dropping since they implemented it? Not this shitty looking, no set bonus having garbage that they introduced in WoD. And it's not "free loot", you still have to run the thing 50 times to get the loot you need. Free loot is Tanaan Jungle were you kill mindless shit for a few days and get better loot than killing raid bosses. MoP had it perfect, WoD got it wrong.
They changed LFR to their own independent sets so actual raiders weren't forced into LFR in order to obtain their 4 set bonuses as fast as possible. The WoD is superior. Also, just because you have to run it a bunch doesn't mean it isn't free. It is just as mindless, if not more so, than tanaan. LFR is setup so you cannot fail. No way should LFR gear be a recolor of normal/heroic/mythic sets or share set bonuses. If all you do is LFR, then why does the gear even matter?
If you're not setting foot in LFR except for a 4 piece you'll remove in 2 additional weeks, why do you care that it's a recolor?
LFR fails all the time. And LFR was a recolor up until this expansion, so saying that it shouldn't be that way is odd. The people who bitched and moaned about having to do LFR to do "real" raiding were the bads and casuals you seem to hate so much. Seriously, every time someone complains about LFR gear it's the equivalent of a guy making $8 an hour complaining about those awful minimum wagers. You very rarely see anyone who is good at the game and is doing "real" raiding complaining about LFR gear, it's always the once removed scrubs. People are actually good at the game don't give two shits about what the pleabs are doing or what gear they are wearing.
Not to mention the fact that you never had to do LFR to do real raiding in the first place. Doing Tanaan and then jumping into normal raiding is no different than doing the rep grind and using tokens to get raid ready from previous expansions.
There's a few catch-ups already in place: drops are higher if you've got the achieve, and if you don't, you have garrison missions to catch up, plus 20k apexis per week to buy an additional batch of items. So the time gates are a lot sped up.
archimonde should at very least drop items of the same ilevel as the boosted apexis stuff from tannan. I don't think it is asking for to much to have the end boss in a raid even if it is LFR drop things along the quality of what you can get solo at no danger to yourself in about a week or a weekend if its the apexis event.
Half the point of wow at max level is pretty pony dress up. The LFR gear at least for my druid are barely better appearance wise than the dungeon stuff which is also lack luster in look. If ilevel is lower than what you can get solo in tannan and it looks bland it really kills the desire to go back in there. In pandaria I redid some wings a bunch because I wanted the weapon looks for transmog.
The difference in prices tells me I don't need to bother trying to farm for a mount; I'm probably facing the prospect of 150+ dungeon runs to afford a single one (mount cost about 100 times a piece of gear, and I doubt you can get one piece per run, let alone more than one).
It's 650 badges per run (on average) and the mounts cost 5k. 10 dungeons isn't really that bad, especially if you're a collector and are used to running a dungeon dozens if not hundreds of times for a mount.
