I haven’t had much time to play 9.1, since I went to camp like two weeks after the patch launched (I did manage to get flying on the second Tuesday, within an hour-and-half. I really wanted to fly).
Ever since I returned home from camp, I’ve been exhausted — being the person in charge for 4 teenagers and 3 adult volunteers, who mostly were new to the camp (exception was my brother-in-law. He’s worked at the camp before) was a LOT of work — and so I did nothing but sleep for two days straight.
(I’m serious. I got like 18 hours of sleep the first day, and 16 the second day.)
At least my cat was very happy to be reunited with me.
I’ve been focusing on getting other things done — remember, I taught summer school right before camp — that I’ve been putting off during the school year.
I’m slowly dipping my toes back into WoW. I’ve enjoyed all the solo content we’ve gotten; I like Korthia (awesome design and lore), I like the quests, and I like the Torghast additions.
But I’m putting off on the instance and raid until I feel more energized for it.
Glad to hear you’re having fun mate! I can sort of say the same, still not exactly a big fan of Torghast, mostly due to the forced grinding for Soul Ash + Cinders combined with the fact that I think that doing Torghast is by large just a massive trash-clear.
I did enjoy playing through the story of Korthia though(so far).
Raid-wise, it’s a bit meh atm since about half or more of the guild’s core raiding team is on holiday and thus aren’t playing atm. But like for you, we’ve cleared normal a few weeks back and as of this week have also gotten Painsmith down on HC. I wasn’t overly hyped about facing him at first since I expected us to be stuck on him for quite a while, but it only took us 10 pulls before he went down so that was a plus.
Something new(new for modern raid difficulties and encounters) for me this tier has been that I’ve occasionally been occupied with the role of raid leader which certainly has made things more fun and engaging. Our regular raid leader, and GM, is quite busy with work atm so he’s not always able to join in for raids.
Due to what I mentioned earlier with people being away, I doubt we’ll be seeing much of the mythic difficulty this tier but, we’ll see.
My friend pointed something out to me tonight. She absolutely hated Torghast until I convinced her to do weekly runs with me and she started to have fun and then we snagged another friend to go every week and just enjoyed goofing around with powers.
With the new Torghast I did my research so we could get into the vaults (Layer 10) and really enjoyed it. They both flipped out over the transmog stuff.
Well, tonight we brought 2 more along that hadn’t done any of the new stuff and got into the vaults and just had a blast. So afterwards my friend was thanking me for making it happen because she had been disheartened by it all initially when she struggled with it. Felt like a bad player and she really isn’t.
I explained that I also felt useless and incompetent and how I got some good advice and support from these Hunter Forums and was motivated to figure it out and conquer it.
So you guys helped me (looking at you LG) and I helped her and then we helped 2 other people.
I’m glad you’re able to enjoy Torghast, and that you’re able to help some of your friends enjoy it now too!
If you ever want, if I’m not already busy with stuff I’m happy to run it with others too! I do normally go at it alone, but I’m also happy to help out or just have some fun!
Oh man. I’m glad you’re enjoying the shake up! The only time I’ve ever led any raids was a short stint in 3.3 for ICC, and I used to lead a few pvp focused raids (wintergrasp, tol’barad, and I used to run the For the Horde achievement to the point of notoriety on my original server). I don’t envy that position, I’m not usually out going enough on voice chat to feel confident in it. And I am terrible at explaining mechanics on voice. For me, communicating in writing is much more fluid and easy for me which is a bit strange I suppose.
Not me. I won’t hesitate to speak up and tell people to move or watch out for something. That’s why my RL makes me help. Keeps me occupied and out of trouble. Lol.
I offer to do more difficult mechanics and give some input when we’re having troubles! But I often have troubles quickly putting my thoughts into words unless I’m super comfortable with who I’m talking to on account of being a little socially awkward. I am mildly autistic, and I went through special needs schooling to help me adapt as an adult. So, for most situations people aren’t blatantly aware of it, but I still feel off or nervous. There’s other little oddities that I mostly just sort of power through at this point in my life .
Edit: Figured I should throw it out there for anyone who wants, my bet is Lazypeon#1469. Let’s get a forum hunter party going
I’m horribly insecure and prefer to avoid people as a whole but when there is something to get done I become all organized and “let’s get this stuff done”. Lol.
We just finished Fatescribe on normal and the first 3 bosses on Heroic. Very excited. I had to help with the runes. Was very scary but I think I’ve got it now. You know that panic moment of “which is my left and right”. Lol.
And my group picked up a new regular healer……because her guild said she was stupid and kept her in the alt raid! Said she wasn’t good enough for Heroics and did the first 3 with us.
Yo, wtf? Who in their right mind says that to someone over a video game? Like, why even?? If they weren’t happy with her performance (whether it made sense or not) they could just be adults and say so instead of calling her stupid.
Glad she’s out of that guild!
I’ll add you when I’m on later! Have family visiting right now ^^.
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