Long time player here, been on and off since late vanilla. I was never a super hard core player but definitely more than a casual.
I did most of my raiding during bc/wrath/cata/pandaria and almost none during wod/legion/bfa (skipped SL entirely).
In the early days I always did relatively well, good dps, staying alive etc.
These days I get one shotted so quickly and am insanely overwhelmed by all the crazy mechanics. How tf am I supposed to keep my dps high when I’m worried about not dying every second and trying to remember numerous mechanics for boss fights?
I’m not even talking heroic or mythic… Just normal Vault and Mythic +5. It’s ***** depressing because I was topping charts doing heroic DF dungeons and now I’m at the bottom of the barrel.
I never expected to be doing heroic and mythic raids, but to struggle this much on normal? And people seem to be doing okay so it’s clearly me… It’s very discouraging and makes me wanna quit even though I just came back two months ago