But it probably increases playtime which is a metric they wanna hype/sell.
The game is way more complex than some people care to admit. It is unfortunate, because raiding is one of the coolest experiences in WoW in my opinion, but outside of LFR there is a very big bar to entry.
I noticed that a lot of evoker stuff I used was situational, but also flowed very nicely. Like, the gameplay was seamless in a way and more reactionary than predictive.
I used to love raiding cause it was like hanging with your friends and having a laugh and pretty much everyone max level could join in. I spent months in Karazhan and Black Temple with my guild. It was kinda great, like a camping trip but you got to kill monsters.
Now it feels very… odd… Like having to submit Google applications with all kinds of info and stats and stuff just to join a raiding guild. It feels like applying to a very intense job.
For the /played I meant on the monk 
What is your performance like on other class/spec?
WW Monk is one of the hardest spec to master.
That’s honestly what a guild normal raid is still like, it’s just those people who were paying back then have learned with the game a little to keep up. The jump is not as big as it looks, it’s daunting as others have said definitely, but it honestly doesn’t require much improvement from a mechanical or gameplay perspective… Things just kinda click once your brain doesn’t have to focus on what button to press next.
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Well I really like Feral and Affliction, same with old SMN in FF14, and I played an Enchanter in Everquest.
I like dots and casters, but feral always feels sorta… unloved by the devs.
So far, this monk has… 19 hours!
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Both Icy Veins and Wowhead post guides on talents, rotations and gear to get for your classes.
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Sadly, I’m not a visual learner. I’m a kinesthetic learner, I learn by doing things. And usually making mistakes 
Like, after I die to a mechanic I usually know how to do it XD
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Keep pushing then, It seems you’re doing everything right already and just need more time.
I had issues with Ret paladins and I was doing 50k DPS and after a week of playing I got up to 75k, I think if I keep gearing and practicing I can go in the 100k + like I do on my hunter.
It just takes lots of practice, I first play with only Passive Talents, to get the core abilities, then I slowly add active talents. If you learn by “doing” then, forget guides for a minute, and make your own builds. You don’t always have to copy the best players to have good numbers. Those are optimal scenario builds.
Gearing with the right stats will also boost your DPS a lot. I use Murlok IO to find what the majority of players are using in stats.
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Once they opened up everything cross-realm, we went from being in a pond to being in an ocean. We used to be able to get to know specific people on a server and meet people more organically while we play. Now we are just a face in the crowd.
It creates a lot of doublethink. I love the ease of things now, but don’t like being a single use tool 
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Thanks! That actually gives me a lot of confidence. My goal is to one day try Mythic 0 when I have enough confidence and when I’m not scared of the players.
That and join a guild one day, I’ve put out lots of applications!
Moonguard is mostly Alliance so I still get to know lots of the folks since it’s an RP server and the Horde is very small.
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You might have to join an alliance guild. I was on moonguard horde for a while and it is extremely quiet.
Make an alliance character and look in trade for a guild, mention it is for a horde character, there are a lot of friendly people on moonguard.
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I’ve pretty much never had a bad interaction here, hahahah.
Coming from Lightning’s Blade, where it was camp or be camped, it’s kinda refreshing.
Honestly checking out visage sounds like a great idea for you and what you want to accomplish. I’m just not 100% sure who’s doing the windwalker coaching.
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I have my bars set up for different things and it’s helped out tremendously.
I have my main bar set up for my normal rotation (1-8 usually, with 9-= as situational movement spells.
The bar above it is dps cooldowns, trinkets, and dps potions on the left side. Right side is usually utility spells like hamstring or ring of peace.
Third bar above that is defensive cooldowns healthstones and health potions.
To the right of that I have two smaller action bars that are condensed into 3x4 spaces. I have one set up with a sequential opener, so I just click the abilities in the order of the opener on wowhead.
The second little 3x4 bar is my aoe rotation, in the order I want to be pressing stuff.
I set up all my new classes this way when dpsing and it helps me a ton. I know where everything is and I don’t have to remember strict openers/aoe rotations when I’m learning a class.
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After a few days of this, compare a log to a simulator. When you sim your character it should show you what spells and buffs you should be using for each global cool down (GCD).
You should be pressing something every single GCD. Every one wasted is a significant dps loss.
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A lot of the monk guides say not to press something every GCD because pressing the same buttons in a row kills your combo mastery and under no circumstance are you to break mastery.
Is that perhaps a class exception?
Yes, though it’s not uncommon for energy classes as you rely on a resource bar that is effectively dictated by time. As long as energy never caps you never lost anything. It’s less common now than it has been in the past but it wouldn’t surprise me that’s how it worked.
We call these specs non gcd locked, as their rotation doesn’t involve pressing a button every single global.
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Meant it as more of a general comment for dps. There is almost always something productive to be doing.
The hot bar thing was a huge doa gain for me on my unholy dk though. LOTS of damage is tied to the opener, and I was doing it wrong in shadowlands when I picked up the spec and raiders castle nathria. Fixing that made an immediate and substantial impact.
You don’t want to cap energy or chi, but you can generally be setting up for that moment and sandbag pressing tiger palm for 1-2 globals. This hardly ever happened to me in dungeon content because of the downtime between trash.
When I was playing WW s3 it was very rare that I had that happen. I wasn’t crushing logs but I was 220-250k in 18-20s last season regularly when pugging. More than enough for the content I did.
Brucecudlee-magtheridon is my monk.
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I’ve passed college courses with less work than it now takes to not embarrass oneself in a normal raid.
I think perhaps it is time for me to join the other “old ones” in the “I no longer give a crap” section of WOW behind the velvet rope. I hear they have good booze.
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They indeed do. The higher paying job alone comes with a secret handshake, cigars, and single malt scotch.
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