I can do mythic+13 on retail but CM Gold Dungeons feel like raiding all over again. It’s all about who you know more than what you know.
Sit in group finder forever looking for a group till i find one that says to do this run you must have done this dungeon , well great.
I am sure i could do all 9/9 if only for the fact groups are super super rare to find , and fall apart at the drop of hat. Not sure what could fix this other than blizzard making group finder region wide.
Went in thinking CM gold dungeons would be a dim a dozen on group finder and i could just keep going at till done , instead group finder is a waste land with the few groups having tons of restrictions if your lucky enough to find any.
3rd party coms & possibly /4 (server dependant) is the way to go for this. Lots of things are broken in classic because it’s a stone soup of old code, retail code, and new code, so classic players have had to adapt.
And yeah, it’s who you know just like life. I’m sure anything decent in retail is the same.
So I got all my CMs done on the release week - Wed/Thursday - 2 nights we got it done.
We pugged 2 people without issues and far less people were doing CMs that week, as folks were still catching up on gear in prep for the raid release. (Thursday was the raid release day too)
I did not use a group finder tool to find 2 pugs (healer+dps), and simply used LFG/1 channel and I had folks whisper me - made sure they were above 463 ilvl and we went inside.
Our runs went well on Wednesday and we all coordinated when to re-connect on Thursday and everyone logged on promptly at the agreed time. So we knocked out the rest. And yeah, we all have joined discord.
That was my experience.
Our comp was:
Tank - Warrior
Healer - MW
DPS: Ret (me), Elem and WW. (we went w/o brez)
So sounds like doing it earlier saved us the headache of overlapped gold CMs with pugs, as no one had anything completed yet.
I haven’t really seen any outlandish requirements from people filling CM groups. Mainly just the obvious “have fully enchanted/gemmed 463 gear” which is the bare minimum lol
You cant out gear it, so practice makes perfect. Form a dungeon team, they are “challenge modes” and yes you can do them just organize and practice; they arent suppose to be super easy.
Think of it as something fully different than doing keys, and look at it more like achievs.
I don’t want easy i just want some chances to do them. Not sit in group finder for 4 hours. Forming , Finding groups is just a time consuming nightmare currently.
Form your own group with like minded people and add those folks later on after a few attempts I’m sure you’ll find and don’t use the group finder do /4
I dont want discord i dont want to play the social ladder game searching. i want to log on , find a group and get it done. You can do this in Retail wow up to +13 or even higher ( which gets you all the rewards except a few titles ). i got 3000k last season without having to do any of that nonsense.
That’s great for you go ahead you just won’t get your challenge modes done with out communication lol. Also I’m pretty sure no body expecting you to talk in discord as well they just want you to listen.