The affix combination so far has been pretty easy.
You also forget that you have an entire season under your belt. Boss mechanics/mob mechanics are figured out and practiced. Affixes are mostly figured out and practiced.
So really the only “new” thing are the boss mobs - which at <= 15 you have time to solo pull.
So yeah, gear or not - it will “feel” easier.
Also a lot of folks are starting out at around 226+ ilvl which is pretty far along the upgrade tree.
I see you didnt read. I said i was talkin about pugging
Also my guild raids/keys when I work now (got a different job and i work nights now) so not alot of them are not on when I am. I do get to key run with some of them from time to time but 99% is pugging
So why crap on people who play this game with friends or a consistent group? People who pug literally complain about freaking everything. Sucks to only have one hour a year to play and only in voiceless chatless pugs. It’s a shame you cant find other people to play with. Maybe try.
So it’s more about a score/rating than actual completions?
Not crapping on anyone. Loling at the OP caz they think that getting kms week 2 as a DURID TANK, the most meta tank, is noteworthy. What next, congrats a fish for swimming?
If they didnt say that and just put in about the new season then this would of been better
Yes and no, b/c getting into 15+ isn’t easy unless it’s your own key as DPS. Failed 16 is ~3pts less than a timed 15, and some timed 15s are pretty easy to ++ (NW). Failed 17s are > timed 15s. You can min-max the score with some failures though.
If you don’t think that even a druid tank is doing most of the heavy lifting >especially< in an organized group I got a bridge to sell you. He earned it. Go play a bear and get it in 2 weeks if it’s that easy.
All that said KSM has been easiest this tier and I think most would agree.
Look I have KSM 2049 (100% plugged my keys) there are 2 hunters in my guild with higher scores than I have.
It’s not the class or the spec.
That’s not going to solve the issue. I HATE tanking in PuG’s because people expect me to be 100% perfect all the time. New dungeon and I’m figuring out routes? “Lol kick this noob tank, wasting my time, go kill yourself”. “Pull FASTER!!!111!!!131!@” Says some random aoe uncapped dps, meanwhile I’ve noticed that the healer is struggling with big pulls so I pull less to avoid being dead.
TL:DR, more tank classes doesn’t mean more tanks, because PuG’s destroy people trying to learn how to tank.
did I read the tooltip that ksm will no longer be account wide in 9.1?
I already hit my a plague on beat the clock mechanics and am studiously avoiding M+ on all but my main who was so much that I had 2000 on him by week two, however, I haven’t checked the rumor that the unlock is not like 9.0 ksm being account wide
that is kinda sad, but also liberating, I can just skip beat the clock in boreghast nor in m+
my current plan is level in slow motion to 60 on my alt army and then rinse and repeat enjoying flying and pretty much avoiding shadowlands past hitting 60 and hope that 1.0 is worth staying subbed for should the drought continue past me leveling the toons I want to position for something not borrowed power, no flying at launch and other anti my fun things.
Honestly sounds like your bragging because druids are meta and an easy way to cheese KSM. Do it as a non-meta, you won’t have the same feelings about it.
I was slow to get KSM last season and set a goal to get it second week this season. It isn’t intended to be a flex or a brag, I’m only 8/10 N guys, far from being an excellent player. I was just sharing my thoughts on the new season’s rating system which was under heavy fire a month ago. The new affix allows for much more creative routing in some instances without punishing new players for not pulling optimally. I find m+ to be the content that i enjoy the most and was just putting it out there that the new season isn’t that bad, might even be better.
tanks get in to keys way easier then any other role
durit tanks get in eay easiter then any other tank
i would druid tank it, but tanking is a thankless job. i also dont like druid tanks alot. mostly caz i have seen alot of really shi… “bad” ones. mostly lower lev ones thinking just caz there a bear they can pull the whole dugg, even if people havent zoned in. also find there playstyle boring.
KSM is a joke this season.
Getting into a group now is going to find hard it kind of sucks for people who didn’t grind dungeons at the start. Anyone with a 15 key wants like 1900+ IO’s
Ya, pretty easy if your a tank and ur horde.
Its hell over on the alliance as dps. No groups. SL is DOA for alliance.
I’m getting there myself. Shadow Priest has an extreme stigma attached to it still (people pretend this is Legion/BFA Shadow and that it’s physically incapable of doing keys when I’d easily consider it a high-tier spec in that context) but I’m at exactly 1900 right now. I will 100% get it next week after timing a Sanguine Depths and a DoS on a Fort week since most of my guild had uncannily bad luck with those two keys.
You just need to network a lot. If you wanna push keys, you need to make connections. There’s a lot of social stuff involved.
So if all those dps who are having trouble finding tanks move into guilds that actually don’t have lots of extra tanks, they’ll suddenly be able to find tanks? How exactly does that work?
Pretty sure warlocks aren’t meta in keys, only hard part was the wait for some of them.
Relatively speaking, this season is probably the easiest ksm ever.
Have to say though, this getting ksm in the first week is a bad trend. Already I can see people not getting picked for 15’s because their score is under 1500. Thankfully IO has been a saviour as you can see the applicants S1 score.
Conversely, getting a good group in a pug first 2 weeks was really easy because a lot of good players were running continuously. Right now it’s crazy. No one wants to do 12-14’s. I’ve done 3 >15’s this week… all went well. I joined three 12’s just to get some specific pieces, all got abandoned because someone made a mistake & someone decided it’s either ++ or bust.