I know I’m screaming into the void here, but as a healer, I feel I should comment on the state of M+ after having gotten to experience S1 M+, and M+ for the first time as a whole overall in my WoW career since beginning playing the game in '05.
I made the decision to stop doing (read: HEALING) Mythic+ today. Barely any loot, people who don’t do mechanics, people who blame healers for dying (tanks get blamed too, but when we blame the DPS it’s insta-ragequit because they never want to own up to their mistakes and the key is bricked. I just stopped saying anything very quickly to avoid bricking the key), etc.
The last 2 weeks before this were heavily “healer-centric” despite them supposed to not have been healer-centric, but we all know dps gon dps. This week has been okay, but there still needs to be major tuning done on a lot of bosses upwards of +14 keys IMO on Tyrannical. If I had to push it, upwards of and including +16s, definitely.
The amount of time it takes for Blizzard to make ANY changes is astounding IMO. It’s like Blizzard was okay with zipping the power level to 1000% on everything while zeroing everyone else out at the beginning of S2. It’s just not good game design, but far be it from me to comment on that on the fly, since I’d have to really sit down and think about what an actually good solution would be. But you know how to get people to keep going despite it being crappy? A guaranteed piece of loot at the end would go a long way.
The cherry on top is the +14 effects being in the lower keys this week, that was something. That and the “missing affixes” that happened for a short time.
It’s not fun anymore without at least getting loot at the end and I’ve gotten 6 pieces of loot so far, 3 of which I didn’t need for my spec so I just gave it away to someone else who did. Two pieces of loot I got were bis boots, both the same item out of Freehold. a Champion level boots I replaced today with Hero level boots. One piece of loot was bracers that I didn’t replace for quite a while at Champion level. Out of a LOT of runs.
And I know for a fact a lot of you are grinding your butts off out there way more than I am as a healer. I did 3-5 runs a day because that’s all I could mentally handle. And I also know a lot of you have probably gotten LESS loot than I have up to this point. It’s a shame Blizzard is doing… whatever they’re doing to M+ at this point lmao.
As a casual, this is the most “hardcore” I’ve ever played WoW and I gotta say, it’s nice having gear, but compared to last season, well. Last season I started trying M+ at the end and it was great! Loot galore, got geared up quick, started looking for a guild to raid with now that I actually, for once in my life, had gear. It was excellent.
Now I wake up erryday thinking “what if I just skipped M+ today” like I would think about skipping a job I hate going to. It’s not fun anymore. Season 1 was great when I joined at the end but Season 2 is just… terrible. And obviously being “geared up” at the end of a raid tier means that you’re gonna have a power imbalance and runs would be easier, but I really do not think this is the case at this point for S2.
It doesn’t help I haven’t been able to find a guild, but that’s a separate problem entirely here, but if I was running with a dedicated group of people, I don’t know whether or not my outlook would change just based on the dungeon tuning for 16-18s I’ve been doing.
I’ve had some extremely good pugs and some good pugs, it’s true. But for every good pug I’ve had this season I’ve had ten or more bad ones between. But when you’re getting into the 16-20 range and people leave over a wipe, why? I just need the run for vault, pls 
Most times there’s more than enough time to finish the dungeon, probably by like a minute or two, but still. I know, I know, “run your own key”.
Yeah, if my key didn’t flip back to back from Brackenhide to Vortex 4 times this season I might, but at this point I’ve given up on my own key. It would be different if I got to select what dungeon I wanted the key to be.
Vortex is so hard I don’t even want to attempt it at 18, much less the wringer I put myself through trying to heal that at 16 for Rainsong, over and over. I even got Beacon of the Beyond (Champion), Screaming Black Dragonscale (Heroic) and Rashok’s Molten Heart (Heroic) before getting Rainsong, lmao. Like come on dude. And I still never got Rainsong.
Tyr is absolutely undoable right now in Tyrannical with snake-lady putting out so much damage and tanks needing precise timing to stun her in 18s, which guess what, 0 tanks know how to do. 16s was at least manageable with the healing but 18s… I don’t even know how to do it lmao. The timing is so tight I can’t even blame groups for leaving when we wipe on her 3 times. I wouldn’t even attempt that dungeon at anything above a 16 on Fort or any other week at this point.
Don’t get me started about the “raise hp above 90% to remove this” dot on first boss in Bracken, ugh.
And those are the only 18s I’ve attempted much less completed this season besides 1 Lair, which fell apart after second wipe because no one understood “attack adds” on first boss.
Blizzard has absolutely wrecked M+ as a whole and it shows in the groups waiting for tanks and healers. Maybe y’all should have listened to your PTR forums and actually tuned accordingly before releasing it to the public. The list of DPS waiting grows larger by the day.
This whole season has been very unappealing to a “casual” player, but I’ve seen such sentiments echoed on the Dungeon/Raid forums as well. It’s absolutely bonkers that Blizzard thinks any of this is okay. I 100% guarantee nobody at Blizzard runs any of this content. No QA, nothing.
But whatever, I’m done with M+ as a healer. If I ever do it again it’s gonna be as a DPS.
To you DPS and tanks who strive to learn and implement knowledge of mechanics in dungeons, and who stick around wipe after wipe to finish the dungeon for completion: You are elite players and I salute you, and I hope great things happen for you in life. I can’t praise you enough. You’re the best.
To the rest of you: Meh. You know who you are.
To whoever is designing the M+ experience at Blizzard: Not even worth saying anything, it’s so bad. Fix it. Take your community feedback into account. Please. I beg you.
To whoever is designing and balancing the raids at Blizzard: You’re cool, raids are fun, fights are the perfect length in N and H (All I’ve done so far), just fix Zskarn please
I love the WoW community and S2 has just felt like being beaten emotionally every single day and it’s a shame that Blizzard does this to its community. I just can’t do it anymore. I just can’t. Good luck other healers, you are far better people than I. Back to waiting for raid day and farming materials for gold I guess. I’ll check back on M+ in S3, maybe.
Happened to me on Saturday.