Honestly Shardling, unlike myself due to my weird blindness type thing I get when too much is happening. You seem like you could make it if you could get over your anxiety. Ignore the PuGs and find a guild. PUGs are far more toxic then guilds are. So you won’t get as much flack.
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eh, nah, I would have advised you to pick different azerite talents until you had the right setup to move back into HoD.
with the vendor, you know when your target corruptions should be available, so it shouldn’t take all that long to get back over 25 base corruption after resist.
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Yup, I’m fortunate to have a guild and a small circle of friends to run things with. I still try to do my best with them though, and still feel bad when I fail.
Last week I was in a 14 ML and accidently sidestepped into a pack of unpulled mobs shortly before the first boss. Despite being in a guild run I got an audible groan from one of my guildmates in discord. I felt genuinely bad and depressed throughout the rest of the day as a result for failing them.
Nah. There’s no such thing.
Yup, the vendor just didn’t have what I needed at the time. I also depleted my echoes source wanting to test a setup where I stack +leech on my WQ/PvP gear, to see how much that’d boost my survivability.
Stupid, stupid me, lol.
People have been trying to find ways to filter out bad players ever since vanilla.
I understand, Anxiety is a brutal thing. Some people just don’t get it. But that person likely didn’t mean any offense when they groaned, frustration can happen but you need to just keep telling yourself everyone has made the same mistakes. Unless someone verbally says something that is condescending remember whats happening is just your own self talk. Try to ignore the negative feeling of that and just use it to push you to be better. I know all that is hard as well, so much easier said then done.
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Eh, not really sure about that. They expressed a desire to upgrade that 14 key and it was because of me that they didn’t do that.
ouch 
sorry.
WoW is a really hard place for people with anxiety. Maybe try finding a guild of people that understand your anxious. Could be hard but maybe let them know that is something you combat. Would probably need to be a semi-casual guild which does venture into harder content. You wouldn’t need to keep repeating it but just say it once when talking to them during the recruitment process. Idk, maybe you can find someone that can work with you on that. Then again you would have to open yourself up and expose that vulnerability which is also hard for people with anxiety. But baby steps.
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Because exclusives are good. If you put the time and energy into something, and you are told it is a trophy, then it should remain exclusive. Elite mogs, time sensitive PvE rewards, all of that is meant to make the player feel good for accomplishing something under the knowledge that it is time sensitive.
However, all of the things you’ve listed aren’t about exclusivity. It’s about ensuring people get someone worth grabbing. With accessibility comes a lack of filter, and the community will create its own filter for the sake of ensuring they don’t waste their key on someone who isn’t good enough to be in that content. It makes sense.
The counter to all of your problems you’ve listed here? Find a guild. Also, TF was trash. Glad it’s gone.
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See I understand this but it also frustrates me. I strongly feel like guilds should be the place where people are highly competitive and more about restricting who gets to play and who doesn’t. PUGs should just be for your normal joe that just wants to play the game and have fun. It feels like the world is upside down.
That…makes no sense to me whatsoever, and I’m a guild master.
Why would a guild actively restrict people seeking to improve in any capacity? All that does is hurt the guild on a larger level because raiding is meant to be a larger, more inclusive activity.
On the flip, why on Azeroth would pugs me “normal joes” and such when their whole point is they don’t care about who you are? They literally don’t. All they view you, and every other pug as is a statistic meant to get a job done.
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Really it depends on which subset of the “community” you ask. There is a large portion of the community that basically exist to bring other players up.
When I was a wee young Warlock back in Wrath, I made friends with a guy who was friends with the guy who wrote the Elitist Jerks Warlock guide (back when EJ was the website to have bookmarked for guides) and we became mutual friends through that.
He was probably my first experience with a truly hardcore player (IIRC he was in a top 10 US guild at the time) and he wasn’t scary whatsoever, he was just REALLY passionate about the game, and especially playing Warlocks, he spent hours helping me go over logs and rotations not because it benefited him, but just because he liked to see people learning the class.
When I entered the realms of good players and started raiding at a solid level, I found out that people like him are the norm, not the exception. There are jerks to be sure, but the people willing to give a pointer or two at the very least far outnumber them.
People in WoW, especially in the high end community, aren’t afraid of giving advice or pointers out. The class discord are a great source of information based on classes/specs, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t go in there to ask some incredibly basic questions. Nobody ever says it’s a dumb question, the very worst response I’ve ever gotten was “read the stickies” (and it was because the answer was there).
So yeah, I guess to cut the ramble short. It all depends on who you ask. If you ask Trade Chat, yeah, maybe they’d call you an idiot. But that’s Trade Chat, they’re the 4Chan of WoW.
If you know where to ask, you’ll almost always find someone willing to give you a solution to any problem you may have, just like when Annastasi mentioned that you could have moved your HoD traits to something else until the Corruption vendor rolled around again and let you fill up your Corruption back to the necessary level.
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I’m neutral on this topic. I’m neither for nor against exclusive rewards. I never did the Mage Tower for example, since I didn’t play in Legion. I like some of the appearances from it, but I’m not fussed that I can’t get them.
I do have challenge mode rewards from MoP and Warlords though, and again I wouldn’t care if they brought them back for other people to earn.
Eh, I dunno if it’s just my class, but I seem to have a genuinely hard time getting straight answers for anything out of the Mage discord. It’s all, “read the stickies” (and they’re all convoluted and insanely complicated) or “sim it”, at the very best, if I even get a response at all.
I thought about asking about which classes have the nicest discords, lol. If I ever decide to reroll that might actually play a part in choosing a new class.
Because guilds are able to form a stronger comradery. It’s the same people every time again and again. Gaining knowledge how each individual plays allows them to play at a higher level. Plus no weirdness with sharing discord servers, or ventrilo ect. Allowing voice chat and other things which could assist in performing better. Meanwhile the PuG lacks all those tools, and should only be used as a method of play for those who do not have guilds. The less competitive people. Why should the less competitive person have to find a guild to play with? When the tools the guilds have is far more then what is needed for just random fun play.
But the things you mentioned are not just random fun play.
Keys? They’re important. They’re the major source of peoples’ gearing. They’re some of the hardest content in this game. They are the major esport considering more people follow the MDI than the AWC. You are pugging the central piece of content for some people. Of course people are gonna make a filter for it.
Then they should form guilds, and let random players form groups using the PuG system. Win/Win both sides win with this.
They do. And that’s why Raider IO exists. Because those people wanna make sure the other people they pug aren’t bad.
Random players already do this.