Uh, well, I guess we’ll agree to disagree. I think timed mythics are part of the problem, it’s a suck design full of toxicity that I wouldn’t touch at any level, worse than raiding perhaps in some ways, at least in a raid guild you can all go at your own pace.
“Yeah, lets do a dungeon and time it, yeah so it’s more fun!” Uh, what? I pay the same 15 you do, don’t tell me how to play or how I can or can’t get gear. There is no problem other than mythics suck and I’ll repeat, I’m not OP. I still die to elites most of the time (certain ones anyway). I’m not remotely in faceroll territory, just comfortable. I really missed your point as to why that’s bad, all I hear is that it’s almost good enough for M+ and that pisses you off for some reason.
I’ll even side with you and say maybe they did this to encourage people to raid and M+ even if we’ve been out of the loop a bit? Don’t know that it’s working, but I’ll take decent gear all day without going in an instance over gear that requires it, and blizzard has no problem with accommodating players like myself, apparently.
Benthic makes my character feel finished, just like purple hours of twilight gear made me feel “finished” doing dungeons with LFD in Cata. Now that my computer is old I can’t do dungeons anymore, and I don’t do the whole guild thing, so it’s literally grind benthic or shut the game off. I’ll take it even if it makes some people mad I guess.
I never claimed to be the best player, in fact playing on this computer and taking long breaks I’m probably even worse than I could be, but that’s not the point. I have good gear and good goals that I know I can actually do with only the daily reset limiting me, so I’m subbed, that’s the point.
You said you could boss the world in mythic 0 gear, yeah, about that, I hate mythic and would never do one even at 0 so that point kind of flies right over my head. Some of us use other means to obtain decent gear, not the best gear, never should it be the best, but it’s honestly fine as is by every metric I can think of.
No one deserves to be a completely useless character when they cap, you didn’t experience that in TBC because you had a guild. Unguilded, who’s gonna take me when it would be a pure carry run because my ilevel is the equivalent of 260 or something?
I’d much sooner collect pearl asses than get carried anyway, and that used to be the only real method of “catchup” and was unfair to asocial players imo as we literally had no way to feel like we were finishing off our character so cap felt hollow and easy to just walk away from, it wasn’t engaging unless you begged help from others I guess.
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