Im a busy person and have gaming time, but some nights I wanna go on a date, or watch a movie, or play something else. Is pick up group raiding a thing? Should I focus on something else entirely like pvp with this life style, or look elsewhere.
Thanks all!
Tbc is a time to do whatever you want, just like any mmo. Pick up raiding is possible, just more challenging and less structured.
If your endgame is best pve gear possible, itd help to get a guild with a schedule. If you just want to accumulate gear over time, you’d be fine playing casually.
Hey! Thanks for the response. I am really not trying to go nuts with it or anything. If it takes me a year or more to get everything, im cool with that. Im not even going to min max and play sub optimal stuff. Just what ever is fun and see how far I get. I just wanted to make sure I have a road to victory before I drove down it, if that makes sense?
With smaller raid groups, theoretically “pick-up” raiding should be easier, but that remains to be seen. Certainly a 10-man Kara group should be easy to find.
Tip: Find your server’s discord channel. Many servers have an active discord community that organizes raids for guildless ppl/alts. You would probably have to sign up for them and commit to showing up a few days in advance though… and if you don’t show up, could be “blacklisted”
no it isnt lol. there is barely anything outside teams
You can do plenty as a casual. Source: me in TBC
I did casual pvp, dungeons, halaa, the dailies, rep, and enjoyed leveling.
I even found herbalism fun and relaxing to travel around and collect
Rut roh. I might be in trouble lol.
There’s not as much, but there’s always something. Also depends on servers, community, etc.
You can play “casually” and get away with doing pretty much all content, but you have to be realistic. You might not clear karazhan in a pug raid in 1 night. It may take weeks, you might have to join halfway through raids. You may wipe. May have to dedicate an hour just to filling. If you only have 2 hours on a Sunday morning, youre probably not going to clear all the content.
I have a lot more time than that. Just that I dont really wanna play wow every single weekend. Most weekends, but not all. I could blow a whole saturday on it, or sunday, or whole friday night. Just dont want to do it every single weekend.
I’d say you’d be fine completing most content if thats your goal. Your main problem, I see anyway, is just that you have to put the work in. I.e. actively look for pugs, start one yourself, invest some time in building relationships, etc. It sounds worse than it is though; I boosted a druid and just farmed herbs until I saw a group that needed a healer for a dungeon, offered to go, was declined, moved onto the next group, where I was accepted. And next thing, ubrs was done.
Then away I go! Gonna make a blood elf fire mage on a pvp server and die over and over. Should be fun!
Thanks Farmerphil. It wasnt much, but it was honest work.
In my opinion, World of Warcraft is absolutely miserable to play without friends. The only reason I still play is because of the 20-30 people on my RealID, in Discord or in my guild. If it wasn’t for them, I’d have quit 10 years ago.
Focus on getting attuned and preraid bis.
Do some research and look for guilds who have members that run SR pugs on the side. Preferably bigger or firmly established guilds.
Get to know the core group and those who run it and maybe even join their guild eventually.
This is how I joined my guild and started doing Naxx.
And I think this is the best way to go about pugging most of the content.
Find a SR pug run by a group of core people who are part of a bigger guild. You’ll save yourself a lot of headaches.
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