Well mine is going a little like this.
Dungeon starts.
ME: “Tank you OK?”
Tank: “Sorry, lagging”
T: “Why’d we die?”
M: “You cannot pull big in TW”
T: “Nah I pull big all the time”
Group starts discussing what killed them
M: “Doesn’t matter, cannot pull big or we will wipe”
T: Proceeds to pull big, we wipe, starts making excuses
No point. There’s nothing worthwhile about Timewalking anymore.
I actually haven’t done them ever since they buffed the crap out of the mobs, it just feels like an unfun slog now instead of a fun mode where you could throw on some old gear and go nuts (how it was in the past).
Badges, can use for free rep, and mounts and toys and basically free gear for your levelling alts. The one dungeon for 500 tokens to get some free rep is still good value when you have 12 alts and a main.
Doing that on my healing alts. Because I hate myself.
I’ve got everything I care to get. Thus, the “nothing worthwhile anymore” part.
Feels like I was in that exact group but…then again, it isn’t uncommon, its far too frequent when it comes to anything before MoP that things can really take a hard turn quick.
If you run with others who do this, than it still is fun. Problem is that you can get randoms at level whatever who are using crap green quest gear and think it’s like every other levelling dungeon they are doing, than proceed to get smashed.
I run with BFA gear and on my main a random assortment of trinkets from the old world and absolutely smash the DPS meters and never have an issue myself when I tank, but that’s you and me, the other 90% of TW players are not like that.
Yeh this has happened to me so far 3 times already this TW week and I have only ran like 5 times so far. Twice we lost a healer when the tank decided they were super human.
Had a premade of 3 people use swap blasters on my as I was running along in Nexus to make me run off edges and die. Then taunt me for being upset about it. (Nexus has a long run back.)
So you know. Well.
I am thankful that my DK has done pretty much every expack except WoD. I slap on my Heath of Azeroth, my cape from MoP and in WotLK and TBC I use Shadowmourne. It kind of blow that Blizzard broke Essences with SL and doesn’t let us change them even if we go to the Chamber of Heart so some of my toons have really crap essences in for Timewalking that get scaled to the point that they do next to nothing. Most Azerite gear is the same if it gives secondary stats but usually procs can add some decent damage.
It also helps when you have people who know the content. Some people just figure the stuff is old and thus easy without realizing some mobs use CC or can heal for large amounts or are using old spells from pre MoP that have really broken scaling (like the old druid AOE Hurricane in slave pens)
When Legion TW comes out it will be interesting to see how people handle the content given the loss of artifacts and the large amount of HP and magic resistance most classes had access to.
Did two on my priest.
Cleared without any wipes, issues, or conversations.
Still mindlessly grinding for a mount with an inhumane drop chance for some reason.
Will likely never touch the feature again after that until they put recolours of tier gear/mounts/whatever onto it so I have something to strive for that isn’t a headache.
Have fun dying in in Pit of Saron!
I just did my 5 on my warrior (might do more later) and that got her some shoulders and enough badges to get the mount when WoD comes around (the last mount I need from TW.)
I got Pit of Saron as my first dungeon. The trash upto the tunnel . . . not fun lol. I was the tank and I ate dirt once or twice.
I change my essences in rested areas still, don’t know what happened to your HoA and can still, albeit have to pay, change my AZ stuff.
Also something like Shadowmourne, even though it’s not the best iLVL, it still works well in old content because of the additional sockets and the on use additional proc chance.
Last time I done that the last Wrath TW I ended doing Pit as a healer and got kicked out when the group over pulled and wiped, I just laughed and requeued on an alt. Some people haven’t been around long enough to remember doing these dungeons when it was live and just have no idea.
Kk that is super wierd. The last couple Timewalkings whenever I went to my essence page by shift clicking my heart the page was greyed out (like artifact weapons) saying “The heart is dormant here, cut off from Azeroth’s life force” now that text is on the tooltip when I equip it and the page is not grayed out period. Thank you for prompting me to look at this IDK when they fixed it but it was annoying has hell not being able to change.
What’s pulls big. Exactly.
2-3 or half the dungeon.
lmao.
I dread getting that one. It’s like russian roulette in the dungeon finder lol
This is one of the two possible ways dungeons go now. It’s not limited to timewalking. The other is:
Tank: “Let me pull the boss over here so you can keep out of the purple crap.”
DPS: “We don’t have time for that. This is not mythic plus.” Pulls boss where everybody is going to be feared. Blames tank for wipe.
I guess the good thing about time walking is how fast you can level a character to 60 from 50 it only took me a day
I haven’t done timewalking in forever.
I’d have to pug and I don’t do that anymore lol
Were you trying to change your stuff while in SL? It can only be changed while in BFA or earlier.
In TW unless you are geared or have AZ pieces and the like, when you run with pugs even pulling 2-3 is big enough to wipe your group sometimes. Especially when you get a tank who chain pulls and than drags a couple of packs at once.
I’ve been in more dungeons than not that have wiped when this happens even after telling them just to go pack to pack because it takes longer to run back than it does just to go at a steady pace.