I’ve got a 444 ilvl and am struggling to get invites to normal mode. Are people really only looking for 447+ ilvl or am I just unlucky?
I duno man. I’m a 450 healer who has a relatively respectable IO for this early in the season and had to sit in LFG for an hour today to run a couple bosses. Honestly the main reason I quit raiding as my primary content years ago, people are really, really choosy. Lol
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It’s hard in the first week. Just keep trying. I actually find that guild groups can be a little easier to get into, especially the guilds who are good enough to clear normal and heroic but not mythic.
I often found the hardest part was getting your first kill, once you have the XP it’s extremely easy especially if you’re good.
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PuG groups always tend to look for the highest ilvls they can find, pugging is rough.
You can always look for those “chill groups” but you know…you get what you paid for. 
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I’ve noticed some players are already above 460 ilvl just from spamming M+ nonstop the past 2 days. I really wish Blizz would make it so you can’t reach max ilvl in the first 1-2 weeks just from no-lifing M+. Neither make M+ stop dropping loot for you after X amount of runs or just make raids drop twice the amount of loot.
Honestly not worth it, WOW has been like this for a very long time. It’s why people don’t like it when things are tailored to the top of the top. It’s because no matter what you do or how you do it, they still find a way to maximize it.
Its like this every new raid where people blast it with their guild and then won’t let your alts into their pug unless you can link AOTC 3 days after the raid comes out
But then you can’t join a “chill group :)” because then you won’t actually clear the raid and you’ll waste your time and gold on repairs
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week 1 it’s all progression. it will get easier.
There are normally just A LOT of dps applicants.
Also once a raid gets going the raid leader will leave it open in the group finder even if they aren’t actively looking for anyone. Then if someone leaves you have a pool of players to draw a quick invite from. Also the chances of getting invited at that point if you aren’t super geared is basically 0. They will have 15-20 dps applicants and likely only ever need 1-2 at a time. The 430 guy ain’t getting in.
Your best bet on getting invited as a lower geared player is applying to groups with very few people in them. Sometimes getting the first 6-8 people can take a while, but then the floodgates of applicants open.
(This is all taken from what I’ve seen others do and I’ve lead many pug raids and what I do).
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