I got a lot of good advice on my road to ksm and push into 3k io as a non meta d class Ret paladin. Here are just some of my random thoughts.
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Pugging as a Ret up until 9.2 was brutal as a non meta spec. Until we got tier sets nobody really wanted us.
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Not having a guild or community you have to run your own keys to push. Spend 30 minutes building your own group instead of waiting in queue for an hour.
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I swapped from alliance to horde in 9.2 and that gave me access to a huge group of more players. 9.3 I went back for my alliance mog.
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Use raider io to see the other players. I avoided players with high io in another spec ie tank but coming as a healer, I preferred to take people on thier main spec. I also avoided alts, sorry I just wanted the best I could get.
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I always took a lust class and a brez. The few times I listened when people said we can use drums it never worked out.
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Raiderio - has the player consistently been able to push keys? Or they been carried like all 12 keys but clearly being taken into higher keys by friends or guild?
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High lag - yeah I’ve been burned a few times with people with high lag worth checking.
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I try and chat real quick before the dungeon. I say hello. If someone doesn’t even respond to that I’ve found they are the first to brick or leave a queue or do stuff nobody wants like an mdi pull.
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Getting ksm I learned to avoid super high io players like 3k plus. The exceptions being when they were with a guild mate pushing. If they were solo they just needed vault and I feared they would leave the dungeon or worse yet high io tanks that wanted to use my 15 to practice mdi pulls.
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Be nice to each other, I don’t need any gear, well at least 272 gear and don’t play other specs so I always offer to change loot specs if someone needs something
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I looked at my lowest io key and tried to always move that key up instead of doing keys with minimal io gains.
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Push weeks. The last three weeks have been really good and let me push past 3k, take advantage of push weeks.
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Get your 8 weekly keys done for max loot, getting 278 pieces helps
Thanks to everyone that’s been living the pug life with me. Chilling and probably will mount farm now til 10.0