Anxiety keeping me from Mythic content, and I want to do it!

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Hello everyone!

I am writing this post hoping I can berid myself of the anxiety I have with participating in Mythic dungeons.

I am relativley new to BFA, and have spent a lot of my time thus far grinding rep, working on pathfinders, and leveling alts because of one reason and one reason only: I am extremely anxious to begin healing Mythic dungeons.

I have been a healer in MMOs now going on 5 or so years, and while I was excellent in a previous game I feel that I will fail in WoW. I am all about self improvement, and I love to learn and become better. What drives me away from the PUGs is that I do not have enough dungeon experiene, and the fact that most of the premades I see are wanting fast runs, beating timers, etc.

Being new to WoW has been a great experience so far, and I have loved every minute of it. I just want to break through my barrier and finally get my feet wet in content so I can improve my gear. I have reached ilvl 411 through the basic means of gearing, but I am far from playing casually. I put in about 12-18 hours a day and now I’m ready to make more use of that time. I find myself a lot of times becoming demotivated to run harder content, and logging out in search for a new main because I feel that I just can’t begin healing Mythic’s, even though I know I can.

I do not want to bring this up in detail, but I am a military Veteran, diagnosed with PTSD and that is MOSTLY where a lot of my anxiety and paranoia comes from. Before you leave a comment like “Why do you play if you’re so stressed?” or “If you can’t handle it, don’t do it.”, I would like to make it very clear that I DO enjoy being a healer, and I WANT to learn it better.

My main point of this is to find out if there are any communities or anyone out there that could point me in the right direction to finding other players that are willing to lend me a hand and will accept my novice experience in my journey to learn this content. I can excel with groups that are players I have come to know, and I know that I will not excel continuously relying on PUGing.

Thank you for reading, and I look forward to see what you have to say!

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I’m not versed really at all on the myriad of discord communities out there, so I couldn’t point you in the right direction there. But I can say finding a relaxed, active guild would go a long way to alleviating a lot of your concerns. Seeing the same people in chat every day, getting to know them, and eventually playing with them sounds like the kind of thing you might need in order to push you into the content.

Guilds come in all shapes, sizes, and with various goals. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t find one that suits your needs immediately, you may find you need to hop through a few before you find one that feels like it fits for you.

Good luck!

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change the word “fail” into “learn to improve”. Knowing you will fail makes it a lot easier to overcome anxiety.

also get into a chill guild and not a “serious” one and tell them youre new to bfa and such. youll get into a guild that will be ok with mistakes and could even teach you some things.

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Finding a guild is a lot like dating. You kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince/princess.

Seriously though, don’t hesitate to guild hop if a guild is not meeting your needs.

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I also agree that finding a guild would be the next logical step for you. Find a guild that runs mythic+, raids (normal/heroic at this stage) and is helpful and supportive. It is far, far easier to run with a group of people who you know and who will provide you with helpful pointers. As someone who is also an anxious healer, I know that running with guildies is way less stressful.

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Normal Mythics are not that hard! Do you remember the change from doing normal dungeons and heroic dungeons? Well, there you have it with Mythics. Start at normal Mythics, talk to the people and slowly increase the difficulty.

Keep your head up! There are a lot of helping players!

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That’s exactly what my guild does. We have tons of experienced players that show new ppl the ropes and then get them up to speed. No lvl requirements just need a good attitude. Msg me if your still looking.

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  • Most folks use the Raider.io add-on to get a sense of people skill for people they don’t know. Download that.

  • Start small and build a community. Start your own M0-M4 runs for a night and communicate with the folks you run with, some of them may be interested in adding you as a friend in game and run with you in the future.

  • Check out M+ communities in discord and in the communities forums on this site.

  • join a guild. Large guilds will have more folks doing different things on a regular basis, meaning more opportunities to run with folks. Smaller guilds tend to have set day/times they run M+ together and it may take a minute to get in to their team.

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In terms of nervousness, like I said above, start small and build up your confidence (while also building up your io score).

If your good folks will be glad to have you keeping them alive. If your struggling go back to lower keys and get some practice in.

If you have trouble with a group just try again. Add people as friends if you get along with them. Especially good tanks.

Like all things, it takes doing it to build confidence. Know you’ll probably mess up big at some point. Don’t take it personal, get back to it and try again.

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It sounds like your biggest concern regarding running Mythic dungeons is that you’re not familiar with the maps and pulls?

First, keep in mind that Mythic 0 dungeons and Mythic+ dungeons are two different things. Mythic 0 dungeons are not much more difficult than their Heroic versions, are untimed, and can only be run once per week. Mythic+ are the timed runs, and the difficulty of those scales with the level of the key used.

If you simply want experience with the maps, trash mob locations, and boss mechanics, just spam Heroic dungeon roulettes. You’ll get a good idea of what you’ll see when you’re ready to step into M+ difficulties.

Second, as I mentioned, M+ scales in difficulty, with each key level adding a percentage of health and power to the enemies, and new mechanics (affixes) being added cumulatively at +2 (baseline), +5, +7, and +10 difficulties. The first three affixes change every week, while the fourth is constant for the season, with this week’s being Tyrannical (+2) - bosses have more health and deal more damage, Teeming (+5) - certain trash packs have increased numbers, Volcanic (+7) - volcanos spawn under random players for the entire duration of the run, and Beguiling (+10, season affix) - special mobs are positioned throughout the dungeon with trash packs.

M+ keys are also timed, with an in-time run upgrading and randomizing the key based on how much time remained, and an over-time run lowering the key’s level by 1. In-time runs have better rewards overall, so most people aim to at least +1 their key (up to +3 is possible).

Learning pathing and strategies (which packs need to be pulled and which don’t, where shortcuts exist or “death skips” can be done) for M+ takes time and experience. There are no shortcuts for that. Finding a guild with people willing to teach (and occasionally “burn” keys in doing so) is the best way to get that experience. You can also pug a Mythic 0 and get a key of your own to make a group for if you are so inclined.