Log in to play World of Warcraft.
Forget that I don’t have a guild.
Look for groups in the group finder for normal Castle Nathria.
Denied, denied, denied, denied, denied for like 45 minutes.
Sigh
Log off
More or less how every day goes. Feelsbad.
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Why not look for a guild then?
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Don’t have time to be active in a guild
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I feel your pain. Log in, Command Table, Calling(s), log out.
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Welcome to the pug life. Unless u got high Ilvl and aotc chances are low. Gotta deal with that bs every raid. M+ is no different
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This is the sad state of the game atm. And people are leaving because of it. So it’s not you it’s this crap fest called SL = time gating for the lack off content Blizzard spent stuff all money on. Sad tho.
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Fair enough. Have you tried searching for a casual guild though? There are plenty of guilds that can accommodate folks that can’t make a big time commitment.
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Your item level is 192. What did you expect?
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Seeing how normal mode drops 200 item level gear, I’d assume that 192 is the perfect item level to gain meaningful gear progression
Seems a little counter intuitive to have to have higher than 200 item level to do content that drops 200 item level gear.
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For normal CN?
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Pugs always go for the people with the higher item level. That hasn’t really changed any since 2004.
192 is fine, but if you’re a 192 going up against a 198, who do you think they’re going to choose?
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How am I supposed to get more gear if I can’t get invited to the content to get better gear?
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Start your own group.
Get your own M+ keys.
Join a casual guild, as there are more casual guilds than there are hardcore guilds?
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The same way you drive to work to afford to buy a car to drive to work. 
Jokes aside… Try keystones or PvP! Starting next week M+ will be a fairly efficient way to gear.
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Any reason not to make your own group?
Plenty of solutions to this, but you have to want to solve it, first and foremost.
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He should be forced to make a group for being 8 ilvls under the content he’s aiming for? Like do some of you people hear yourselves defending how caustic this game has become?
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If you got time to be declined for 45 minutes, and if this literally happens every day like you say usually then how dont you have time to find a casual normal raiding guild?
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Because not everyone wants the burden of forming and organizing, let alone leading a raid group.
They just want to participate. I find players with well established raid or progression groups never understand this. Because they don’t have to deal with it.
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Become?
This has always been the way with pugs. You avoid this issue by making your own groups and/or joining a guild.
You can’t change the way players operate in a video game. They play and recruit the players they want to recruit, and there’s little Blizzard can do to intervene with that.
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Use raid finder.