Vanilla Raiding is Insanity

[Leakyroof-benediction]

This is my first time playing vanilla, so maybe I’m a bit naive with my experience so far. Raiding in vanilla seems a bit insane to me.

Molten Core hasn’t been out a month, and I am “having” to spend upwards of 100g a week on consumes and boons for worldbuffs. “Having” in quotation marks because the content is largely trivial but, consuming is made a necessity by decent players in loot council guilds. The alternative is to raid in the x#SR pugs with no requirements but, the people in those runs tend to be neanderthals incapable of performing the simplest of tasks leading to 2 hour+ MC runs. This is 100g a week for the most likely event of not even SEEING, let alone actually being awarded, gear.

I realize 100g really isn’t THAT much right now, especially for me as I’ve been able to accumulate a lot by selling dungeon services. However, I don’t want to sell these services every week for all of vanilla just to finance my raiding. Eventually, BWL is going to drop and I’m guessing the demand for consumes will AT LEAST double on the basis people will now be running both MC and BWL (I’m new to vanilla, so please correct me if I’m wrong about this). So that’s going to be upwards of 200g a week for what is still a miniscule chance of actually getting gear.

I am debating just throwing in the towel and saving the gold I have for epic flying come TBC and focusing on obtaining gear from the R14 grind. Am I the insane one? Is vanilla raiding insane? Is vanilla just not for me? How are y’all doing this?

[Latherfal-nordrassil (Latherfal)]

kek (not laughing at you, thats just classic)

[Eyr-whitemane]

@Leakyroof-benediction

Molten Core hasn’t been out a month, and I am “having” to spend upwards of 100g a week on consumes and boons for worldbuffs. “Having” in quotation marks because the content is largely trivial but, consuming is made a necessity by decent players in loot council guilds. The alternative is to raid in the x#SR pugs with no requirements but, the people in those runs tend to be mongoloids incapable of performing the simplest of tasks leading to 2 hour+ MC runs.

hmm perhaps there is a connection between having a minimum requirement like consumes and the quality of raiders

[Snipy-faerlina]

@Leakyroof-benediction

This is 100g a week

Yeah, and yet people complained about respec fees… as if that 50g was the biggest deal ever.

@Leakyroof-benediction

So that’s going to be upwards of 200g a week

Yep. This gives people who focus on raiding something to do when they are not in raid. Imagine the complaints if there was nothing to do, otherwise…

[Purreblood-faerlina]

I’ll just be focusing on pvp’ing and saving gold for TBC. Already have done these raids way too many times.

TBC waiting room is what this server is anyways

[Arkaèl-faerlina]

This is why a lot of players are just waiting till TBC. The amount of time required to make gold to raid along with the scarcity of loot keeps many from engaging with the content.

I would recommend finding a guild that doesn’t have high consume requirements.

[Stoopkid-nightslayer]

this is the truth

[Alsharptusk-fairbanks]

@Leakyroof-benediction

So that’s going to be upwards of 200g a week for what is still a miniscule chance of actually getting gear.

So you mean you have to participate in the economy and play the game? What an absurd concept for an MMORPG.

[Crudlord-tichondrius]

Why are you spending 100g a week?

If you don’t die you won’t lose the pots you popped.

If you’re in a group that has a lot of people dying all the time, including yourself, then pop the cheapest pots they have and only for bosses.

[Cezar-kurinnaxx]

@Leakyroof-benediction

I am debating just throwing in the towel and saving the gold I have for epic flying come TBC and focusing on obtaining gear from the R14 grind. Am I the insane one? Is vanilla raiding insane? Is vanilla just not for me? How are y’all doing this?

IF Vanilla gaming is your goal then quit now and move to Classic Era Whitemane or Mankirk where you can actually have fun, because Anniversary is not that.

IF TBC gaming is your goal then don’t gear now, just wait and make a fortune off the back of the plebs who buy gold by selling stuff you farm on the AH. Find your market and maximize that so you can buy all the class skills, Epic flying skill, the epic flying mount, and pre-plan all your TBC stuff and get yourself in late game into a TBC focused guild.

Meine Herren, Es ist Zeit!

[Xfour-bigglesworth]

@Leakyroof-benediction

How are y’all doing this?

We used to have a great pug loot system that solved the gold issue.

[Amntir-whitemane]

Just join the SR groups, limp along for a bit, collect some loot eventually, save your gold. The FOMO is the real problem that you are experiencing.

[Inertiacreep-dreamscythe]

you’re correct
I wish the player base was the same as ions ago but todays a different crowd.
I haven’t bothered with raids/mythic since ICC. Haven’t really suffered for it.
Its also a shame most of the instanced content is more a chore than a blast.

[Eyr-whitemane]

@Cezar-kurinnaxx

IF TBC gaming is your goal then don’t gear now, just wait and make a fortune off the back of the plebs who buy gold by selling stuff you farm on the AH. Find your market and maximize that so you can buy all the class skills, Epic flying skill, the epic flying mount, and pre-plan all your TBC stuff and get yourself in late game into a TBC focused guild.

so true raiding is actually the least productive thing you can do right now if your goal is TBC.

[Forkntoaster-dragonmaw]

@Leakyroof-benediction

Molten Core hasn’t been out a month, and I am “having” to spend upwards of 100g a week on consumes and boons for worldbuffs.

@Leakyroof-benediction

The alternative is to raid in the x#SR pugs with no requirements

@Leakyroof-benediction

I realize 100g really isn’t THAT much right now,

Sorry for the convenience.

[Zaalg-ashkandi]

Nah, Vanilla is great. It’s the players who have gone insane.

[Garithós-dreamscythe]

Things were sleightly better when Sylvanas was Warchef

[Heelys-dreamscythe]

Boons and big consumes are for speed runs, you do not need them.

[Mirrina-ashkandi]

I mean rank 14 with some zg to fill the gaps like belt, ring 2, and some dungeon stuff should be enough for tbc prepatch.

[Warstein-dreamscythe]

This is my plan exactly