Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

Played some WoW yesterday.

Ran some chests on Timeless Isle and bumped my Druid up to 500 ilvl (blue weapon, though). She's doing all right in raids (100k-ish DPS), but does crap damage in 5-mans due to lack of front-loaded damage, so I mostly tank them (in DPS gear, luls).

I still think the scaling in this expansion is nuts, but it's also the first expansion where I joined late, so it might just be that I'm behind. Not really sure what I want to do in the game, though. I would like to try out PvP, but I get obliterated in there with a mix of crafted and HP gear. It's not even close to fun (literally got one-shot by a Warlock the other day). Wish there was some kind of bolster in there.

And raiding is no fun, either, when you're constantly banging your head against the pain that is 25-man PUGs.

Guess I'll farm some more SoO for a weapon and then put the game on hold until Warlords of Draenor. I'd spend some time leveling up my other characters, but I frankly cannot be ***** with the unnecessarily painful leveling experience that is Pandaria. Go here, go there, unlock phases to unlock more phases and flight paths. Do this on every single character you've got. Yes, good idea.

Edit: Having a great time leveling up my Agent in SWTOR, though. Only problem is: I want to play a Juggernaut and an Operative at the same time, because both are awesome in different ways.

Edited, Jan 8th 2014 6:39pm by Mazra

Don't have time for a raiding guild.

Wiped on the Sha of Pride (or whatever it's called) because people didn't spread out during Swelling Pride, and then we wiped a number of times before starting the fight because the Priest kept using Halo to AOE heal us after the previous wipe. Halo, healing allies and damaging enemies, has a pretty sick radius, and it kept hitting the boss when he used it.

The amount of raging happening after three consecutive wipes due to this was hilarious. Probably would have stayed if it hadn't cost me 50g in repairs each time.

PuG raids are the works of satan and raiding guilds suck donkey **** unless you get a hardcore one in which case it becomes a second job.

If there was a happy medium I'd love to raid again but I won't enjoy the stupid timesink of a hardcore raiding guild and the more casual raiding guilds are filled with retards, slackers and failures because they're all friends and nobody has the guts to kick their voidzone eating asses.

And one of the first three is leading the raid and getting anger managenent classes to deal with the last 2 groups.

Edit: last 3 groups now spg edited his post.

Oh and if I knew I could find a guild that raids, say, 3 nights and 3 hours a night where everyone knows all the fights, has all the flasks and whatnot and nobody needs to be summoned and everyone knows how to move and stack cooldowns etc. I'd be very tempted to resub.

I know it's only a dream though.

Edited, Jan 8th 2014 10:20pm by Aethien

It was the best thing about the hardcore guilds. No whining, no ********* no slackers. Just business and getting on with what you're there for.

Of course the 6x6 hours of raiding a week during progression (alts not included) is a rather large downside.

Should I start playing wow again? What server should I play on?

I'm trying to remember. I'm pretty sure I have not played MoP at all.

Can I do the trial with an existing account?

Yup, it can even be an inactive account.

You should wait a few months and play EQN: Landmark with me Xsarus.

The hard thing about 'fun enough' is the $15/mo. There's way too many F2P MMOs and other cheap games out there to make 'fun enough' be worth the money these days.

Jade Forest can still DIAF though.

For myself, I was just paraphrasing my own guild back in the day. Reminiscing about the death of my soul and such.

As arbitrary as the distinction has always been, I felt there was some place for it. Something like: if an otherwise decent member of your raid was holding back progress would they get replaced by someone better? (assuming you had someone of course) The "yes" or "no" answer was the dividing line, the talent level of the group being secondary.

My old guild was kind of like Fishy's. At the start of Cata we had 4 or 5 different raid teams. One was super hardcore and they made us the top Horde guild on the server, and IIRC in the top 400 in NA. The rest had different levels of dedication. I think two others were probably in between hardcore and casual. The one I was in we only raided once a week, but we tried to have a hardcore attitude. To the point where shortly before T12 released, the raid leader "let go" a couple people for lack of performance. I almost got let go too, but I was able to prove that I could perform with a different toon. I just had issues with the unpredictability of the Boomkin spec. I really enjoyed that raid group, but sadly I had to quit once I moved back in with my parents. There was a casual Friday night alt raid too, and that one was pretty fun to participate in.

When I came back to the game last month, my old guild had de-evolved into a single 10 man raiding group, with maybe one or two other people online during non raiding times. Guild chat is dead silent. It kind of depressed me.

I think I'm going to make beef bourguignon tonight. It's time for a nice rich dish.