This post made me smile as I remembered fondly back to the days when I'd log in to spammed whispers begging for Heroic runs. Even on days when I didn't particularly WANT to run Heroics, this feeling was generally enough to get me into a dungeon.

I feel zero incentive to subject myself to the RDF these days. When I'm expected to hold every player's hand, explain boss fights, assign people to handle every boss mechanic, etc., it stops being fun, and starts being a painful chore.

For a while, I would start RDF runs with "Hey guys, please mark any CC you plan to use, and I promise I won't break it." Can you guess how that went? I never saw a single marked target, and people started expecting me to tank it like we were still in Wrath.

Players got smart for the first few weeks of Cataclysm, then disregarded everything once the relatively small pool of tanks became geared enough to carry them through without trying to use their tools effectively.

Will Blizzard's "bribe" get me to use RDF? Probably just long enough for me to get the rare mount(s) I want. Then I'll be gone again, just like I was when Valor Points became irrelevant to me.

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