So my guild’s taking the week off of raiding due to the holidays, and I’m kind of left with a dilemma.
On one hand, I am tempted to look in the premade LFGs for a Heroic Uldir pug. Still looking to get two pieces of transmog out of that place. I have the AotC and I know the place somewhat well.
On the other…I don’t feel like I know it enough. The possibility of making mistakes is still there and my DPS isn’t anything super spectacular. I switched to playing Arcane not too long ago and could certainly use some practice, but that also means that I am not perfect with it. The fear of embarassing myself in a pug is still there and it’s honestly what is keeping me from applying to a group.
Even in regards to the AotC, I only killed Heroic G’huun one time and I don’t know that particular fight from top to bottom. Part of me feels like I was carried to it somewhat, even though I didn’t buy it or anything. I got it alongside a good, caring guild that explained the fight and encouraged me along the way, especially when I was asked to run orbs at the time.
Sadly these confidence issues are something I have yet to learn to deal with, and it’s something that’s been plaguing me for years. What should I do?
Have you done your research on the fight? Watch some youtube video guides if not. Write strategies down on notecards. That’s how I survived ToS in Legion on Week 1 as my guild’s official off-tank. Talk about pressure, you think you have confidence issues, try being a 1st string tank!
I’d just find a group and try your best. If you’re not up to their standards and you’re removed, it’s not personal… you’ll probably never see the people again and if you do it’s unlikely they’ll remember you anyways. You’re only holding yourself back by not trying.
You’ll never know if you’re cut out for it unless you do it, mate. I’m sure as you go through it you’ll be able to remember the mechanics and the flow of the boss fights when you’re in the thick of it.
If not, you can always brush up on the fights as you’re doing trash, or even just before you go into the raid.
Lol…
This is pretty accurate, though. Unless the bosses aren’t going down, people generally don’t care about DPS.
I feel you, man. I’ve been thinking about running Uldir with my awesome guild for months, but I never got around to doing it because I lack anything resembling a spine.
A straight random pug of Heroic Uldir will probably be a disaster, I’d look for communities that do Heroic Uldir runs and might be a bit more organized and discerning.
Alrighty, thanks all. I might give it a shot tonight.
I have a basic idea of what to do on each fight as a mage. Fortunately Uldir isn’t as complicated as some raids. There are some little bits I could be missing here and there though. Funny enough, even after killing Mythrax a few times I only learned a couple days ago that you could actually knock mind-controlled people out of the orbs, lmao. Until now I thought the orbs just pushed you out on its own. xD
My bigger concern is my potential lack of DPS. I haven’t really tried raiding as Arcane in there yet (been Fire up until this point) but my DPS always felt somewhat on the low end as Fire. However I’ve done Arcane in some M+s recently and my DPS did improve in there, so maybe it might translate to raiding. That’s really my biggest issue, my lack of confidence in that my DPS isn’t going to be what my gear level says it should be.
I’m fortunate that the two transmog drops I’m after come from MOTHER/Zek’voz and Zul. It doesn’t have to be the greatest pug. Of course if anyone can recommend such communities I’d be all ears. The problem is that I’m only looking for a one-off thing just for this week. I don’t want to seem like a “user” of a community.
I doubt you’ll have any problems getting carried this week, being Christmas and all. Most folks are probably done gearing at this point and don’t really care about carrying people this late in a raid tier.
I do a combination of LFR for practice and I look up mechanics if I’m really stumped about something. I would say watch some videos just to get an idea of mechanics.
If you look at content as easy and never as something hard you’ll never be worried about it because you’ll just focus on doing what you’re supposed to instead of worrying about how hard something is
There is a good chance you will be better than 1/2 the people in there. You have seen the content and bested the content. Just go do what you do with your guild. You got this, man. We believe in you!
Alright, thanks all. I’ll try and give it a shot, assuming I don’t just end up talking myself out of it and avoid it, lol. The human mind is crazy sometimes…
This thread seems surprisingly relevent again, due to the whole Zul and Blood Beast fiasco going on right now.
Kind of facing another similar situation so I’ve decided to bump this old thread because it’s still surprisingly relevent.
Basically, my big question is; is there a place in this game for bads anymore?
Just finding it hard to enjoy myself in BoD because I raid with another arcane mage that seems to completely outdo me in everything, one that is probably laughing at me behind my back. I’ve actually put him and his buddy on ignore in-game and on Discord but the lingering feeling of being judged and laughed at it is still there.
No matter what I seem to do that DPS as an Arcane Mage is just not going up. I am left wondering if the mage class is for me these days. I’ve since rolled an alt on Alliance-side to try a new class and to just kind of keep to myself for a while. I log on as offline to the rest of my btag to ensure that privacy. But where I went I don’t really have any friends and to be honest I’m just not sure about doing anything group-related anymore.
I hear it all the time here on these forums. “If you have good logs you will always find a guild.” But what about those who don’t have good logs? I’ve thought about just giving up entirely and remaining an LFR hero for the rest of my life. Because no matter what I try it never seems to work out.
