Greetings all! I am in need of advice and I figured there was no better place to turn than all of you wonderful, intelligent, respectable, witty, beautiful specimens of gamers.
So here’s the deal (pickle)
My gf and I are in our mid 30’s, with kids and careers. We work 9-5 Monday through Friday and get the crux of our gaming in after bed time, which is 9-11 during the week and then 8-12 on weekends, usually.
We have been playing Shadowlands and have had mixed feelings about it.
We are both at around 200 ilvl and at this stage there are only really a few ways to progress our characters. We could do m+ but we wont really get upgrades unless its from a 7 key or higher, and they are starting to get really difficult for us. To the point where we are starting to not always have fun when trying to complete them. This unfun is compounded when we are rewarded with 35 anima, and that’s it, for our troubles.
We tried pvp in arena to gear, but the matches are over in seconds before we even know what is happening or understand where we went wrong.
We are in a heroic raid team, and are 4/10 working our way up, but I can’t tell you the last time we actually got gear from the raids. It’s mostly from the vault. We are having a lot of fun raiding, but that only happens one night a week. The rest of the week, no one else is online doing anything.
Yes, we could try to get better at the game, but honestly, we dont want to. We want to come home from a long days work, and relax. Not get frustrated over and over again because of how hard it is for us. We are very okay with not being the best, but the rotations are really hard compounded with the snowball effect of making mistakes and then we let our team down, and we get frustrated ourselves. We want easy mode. So that begs the question, is this really for us?
With very little in the way of a steady progress path, and the buzz of TBC classic on the horizon, we thought maybe now would be the time to get into classic. We heard that its waaaaay easier which is exactly what we want. A chill, relaxing social rpg game that we can make friends and join a community and be apart of a team.
However, finding a guild that has our limited schedule will be an astounding task and if our goals are to experience the end game content, we will more than likely be subjected to PuG raiding. Would this be miserable?
We only have time to play one game and cannot dedicate time to both. So the question is, which one is going to be better for our skill level and time constraints?
Thank you for taking the time to help us out.
/Signed two tired parents.
Edit: Thank you all so much for your help! You all have several great ideas and sofar the ones that I will be presenting to her are-
1-Stick with Shadowlands but change how we play. Stay out of content that makes us have a bad time. Accept our current gear progression, hope for the best in raids, play alts, do transmog runs, collect pets, play the AH.
2-Get the weekly stuff done (Torghast, raids) and play classic the rest of the time for a change of pace.
3-Play classic exclusively and go where the wind takes us.
I will update again after we have decided for those interested and again, thank you all sincerely for helping us out!
Edit edit: we went with option 1. Decided to yolo a +5. Success. Had a decent time. Pushed to+7. Kept up the momentum. Got to a +11. Took 2 hours and 68 deaths but we have finally completed our first ever prideful key and…had fun! We accepted that we suck. We memed. We dreamed. And did it! 2 hours and 35 anima later.
Now we just have to wait for blizz to fix the reward structure and we are good to go. But if they don’t, alts, mogs, mounts, and more random fun is to be had.
Thanks again WoW forums! You’re the best that ever was.
/signed two still tired but now happier with their choices parents.