After the overwhelming reset day with a lot of random activities, I had a more focused approach on day 3. Since Loremaster, clearing quest log, farming herbs and getting big gear upgrades from renown all came from doing more side quests and wandering around the overworld that's what I did. And some odd heroic to get some variation and valorstones.
Side quests
Quality of side quests still variable. Some really good sad ones, the odd npc powertrip and some hopeless fetch quests.
Getting the renown for gear was pretty easy, I managed to get all the veteran pieces today.
Getting the Sojourner achievements for Loremaster was harder. Two of the Hallowfall ones were bugged for me; I have done them (and confirmed with youtube and wowhead) but they were not tagged for achievement. The other zones has quests I can't find, and I'm not in the mood to have to google them up just yet.
Got Pathfinder, which was really nice. Herbing in the expansion has been a bit annoying since everything is so vertical, so if you have to land on the ground to pick a herb and run out of vigor you can't back up and have to wait. It was a nice quality of life.
At the end of the day, my quest log is still mostly full. But I still have hope to clear it out before the season starts.
Overall still happy with the quests, except the bugs for tracking things.
Dungeons
Mostly stuck with Heroics today, and completed about 5. The amount of failed runs though...
Problem 1: Loads of people are targeting loot in heroic with reduced ilevel drops on day 3 of them being available, and leaving if they don't drop. Usually that's a tank/healer duo that leaves the dps stranded and facing a new 10 minute wait after waiting 10 mins to get into a one boss dungeon run.
Problem 2: Rage. Tanks pulling all trash between bosses. Tanks not pulling all trash between bosses. Not trading. Trading. Doing quest. Not doing quest. Not doing mechanics fast enough. Doing mechanics fast so they can't see. Literally everything causes someone to snap. I don't think I've ever had this large a percentage of dungeons runs have someone be mad, and even my ranked League of Legends games in silver was calmer.
I simply don't like half the dungeons, so I am already weary of doing random HC. Not great.
At this point, I am hoping Delves will save me from dungeons.
End of day status:
I think I am getting to whatever the ilevel requirement for the normal raids will be. I need some boots that is at least on Explorer track to drop from anywhere, and then I can just farm some Valorstones to pump my gear up to 580 if I need to.
I don't know about playing Balance so much though. Playing Druid is very practical for doing all the content, but the current Balance rotation is... odd. Might be that everything in dungeons die so fast normal rotation doesn't really apply, so can hope it gets better in raid, but seeing how all the Balance mains fled the spec I'm not so sure...
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