I played in 10.0.5 and stopped playing before the new raid came out.
I just tried to start playing again and the overwhelming sense of being so far behind immediately hits you when you log in. I changed some talents thought about playing and then realize the amount of carries I would have to buy in order to actually play the game how its intended.
do others feel the same and if so how do you get over that feeling?
literally do one of the multitude of world quest events like time rift. then you can jump straight into m+ like everyone else. but find a guild cause the community is god awful on this game otherwise.
You get over that feeling by repeating to yourself that you donât have to get fully caught up in a week or even two weeks. Buying carries is expensive and unnecessary when you can pace yourself, do catch-up content and LFR for gear, and climb the M+ ladder or start pugging into Normal (and eventually Heroic) raids.
Itâs not a race. Relax and have fun.
It really does. For starters you got all the storylines to catch up which is a bunch but it can be done in about a week playing casually, but then the real dread starts⊠Gearing up, holy crap, you probably wonât be able to join a raidcore halfway through a season so chances are you will have to pug your way through ilv, on top of that, making pug groups right now sucks because healers decided to go on a strike just like tanks so it takes 30 mins to form a group to do a 15mins run of something, not to mention that itâs hard as hell to get into a group as DPS because your rating will be lower than average.
Idk, just at my wits end, this has been my experience since coming back and whenever Iâm forming a M+ group, waiting for any tank or healer to sign up I keep asking myself âWhy am I doing this to myself? Am I really that bored?â
Maybe itâs different because Iâm a healer - but i main switched and found it quite easy to gear up.
Took me two weeks to go from 380 to 430.
(And only one week to get âcaught up enough to raid heroicsâ).
The grind from 430 to 440 was a lot slower
Not being salty, just an observation. I wouldnât want to be a new player or return to WOW right now. Itâs a great expansion for story and talent trees, but itâs not particularly noob or alt friendly.
Getting moderate level gear is relatively easy, but good luck getting in a raid, M+, or any other content that matters to your progression. And if you do get in, remember that there is no consequence if they kick you for not playing at God level.
There is nothing wrong with world content or professions or the raids or dungeons, but the group play - where you have to rely on other people - is just awful, and you canât progress without it.
This guy is a farming alt Iâve been working on gearing over the last three weeks or so. The majority of my M+ runs have been with PuGs through Group Finder and through a M+ Discord community called âWoW Made Easyâ.
âWoW Made Easyâ is welcoming to new and veteran players alike and is catered to players who usually avoid endgame group content because theyâre anxious about toxicity. Theyâre nice people and I havenât run into any jerks yet (fingers crossed). If youâre geared appropriately for the level of key you wish to run and know your spec well enough to play at a decent level, youâll have no problems at all. Join the community and give it a try.
Iâve been doing alright tbh. Iâm mostly a solo player so Iâve just been questing, doing time rifts/assaults, WQs, and then leveling my alts or farming transmogs and hidden appearances. I think itâs all about your own expectations. If youâre worried about others and catching up then I think youâll always be down on yourself cause youâre not playing for you.
Itâs not different. Gearing up is plenty easy as long as you donât have this guyâs unrealistic expectation that you need to âcatch upâ in 2.2 seconds flat. Itâs like people donât understand that progression and getting to a goal is the main game.
Yeah no, if you put in the effort then you can be geared in the span of week, you should have 6-7 sparks to work with which will give you free 447 gear, followed by charges from the catalyst to get your tier set with.
I think you are misrepresenting my opinion for whatever reason, I am simply stating the feeling of being so far behind is so bad that it makes me not want to play the game.
This is something that WoW has done really poorly with over the last couple of expacs and one of the reasons why people tend to not come back to the game. Looking at it from a returning players point of view may give you a better understanding of why this game has failed to bring back players when all Iâve heard about DF is that its a great expac that no ones playing.
Iâm not. Youâre the one that said you need to buy carries to play the game, somehow. The implication being that you want to skip the entry, and probably even mid, level content even though you could, yâknow, play that and progress as intended.
Not really. I took a break mid season 1, and while coming back was very overwhelming, I just picked a direction and went. Chewed through the content and found my stride 
Where did I say I had to buy carries? I said the amount of carries I would have to buy, I know reading might be hard for you but those 2 dont mean the same thing lol
also maybe look at the guild people are in before you think they need to âbuy a carryâ my point was more so that carryâs seemed to be the most viable way to actually get gear/progress which feels terrible.
Howdy McStabby!
Youâre in luck regarding gearing in Season 2. I think I may have quit about 2 weeks after you did. I remember pushing KSM with friends. Quit a week after hitting it cause I got bored.
I came back about a month ago and I asked what I could to do gear and was recommended doing the forbidding isles and the ZC campaign.
I think it is easy to start just on low keys, build score and push higher especially if youâre a wanted class/healer/tank.
It is easy as you say rightfully to also buy carries which are both cheap and can armor/weapon/trinket stack for you. I had 4.3 million and I dropped 400k on two stacked leather runs for my monk.
Iâve made other characters and pushed into the +10s without that also. If I had to compare to last season I found it easier cause there is a middle ground which feeds a decent amount of Drake fragments that gets you into the 420âs.
You can forgo everything except LFR, current time rifts and heroic dungeon weekly if you want and still end up around 430. (4/5 424 tier, rest champion gear from raid/weekly and fill in hard slots with crafted gear which can be upgraded to heroic using the weekly vault crest rewards)
Lol?
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lol did you not read my whole statement? dam the trolls in here are getting pretty weak ngl lol
âI would have to buyâ is a hypothetical situation meaning I wouldnt actually do it but if I was to go that route it would be terrible.
It would be nice if true solo content acted as a catchup. Instead of âfly around and pretend to be apart of a world while you and a bunch of random people global mobs before they get 2 mechanics offâ Iâd rather level with nobody at tier 3 in diablo than t1 with a full party
You donât have to call yourself out like that. Just play the game. Have fun, enjoy yourself.
Pretty sad troll attempt