DF Season 3 part 2: The hollowness of completing goals

When I made the post about my goals and intentions for DF Season 3, the actual gameplay goals were only getting Curve and KSH on Esmënet.

This week was reset 4. I got Curve 4 weeks earlier than in Season 2, and KSH 8 weeks earlier than in season 2. If I had bothered, I would have had KSH in week 3, but didn't feel the need.

Ever since I dropped out of trying to be in serious raiding guilds in TBC after just feeling hollow about the rush, last season and this season has highlighted this even more. Play a lot, try to optimize, use lots of consumables and generally have tunnelvision on the end goals, and then you get them. Then what? I am now so tired of my hunter it is unreal. I don't see the need to raid, m+ or get gear or anything anymore.

I am also REALLY puzzled. Before the season started, it seemed like the m+ scaling would make it the hardest season from the start. Combined with slashing the Crest cap and the 13 extra iLevels of gear for the season it just seemed Blizzard was trying to drag the season out. Yet it's the least mechanically demanding m+ season ever, the most lenient dungeon timers ever and the only thing that depletes keys is that you run into something you can't live through that you could the key level before.

The raid is scaled a bit better for heroic. Larodar and Nymue had a bit of a gearcheck. Smolderon, TSwift and Fyrakk all have actual learning processes for their mechanics, have class utility that makes it easier if you have them (mass dispell for TSwift, Ring of Peace and Grips for Fyrakk) and to gear checks that lets you survive the passive damage. I think the raid was in general better designed that way than the last raid, that fell over on HC, and if the bosses didn't like Zskarn, they got nerfed hard.

But yeah, it's really hard to stay motivated after burning through all the content. I still enjoy playing the Mage and the Paladin, but the fun there is goofing around. But I guess we'll see if Esmënet gets a second sometime later in the season.