The weeks come and go; this was the first week of two that doesn't have anything major unlocked.
There was a conclusion of sorts to the sylvanas storyline for now it seemed. I've not been a fan of the way things are told for a long time, so kinda indifferent again. The book that came out seemed to be big on info and motivations and such, but not seen anyone say anything about if it's worth reading for reasons you'd normally want to read a book.
The affixes were Tyrannical - Spiteful - Necrotic - Encrypted. Easy, but kinda slow. In pugs especially. But with gear improvements comes score improvements no matter the affix.
Stormlufser the Awakened
Being the only "focus" now, Storm attended the guild raid and some key pugs. But generally played a lot less since the devil on the shoulder that wants me to play more to "keep up" is gone.
Raid (11)
Vigilant Guardian [Normal] (DPS: 7.1k [+0,2k])
Skolex [Normal] (DPS: 9.3k [+1.1k])
Artificer [Normal] (DPS: 8.4k [-0.0k])
Dausegne [Normal] (DPS: 9.6k [+0.1k])
Halondrus [Normal] (DPS: 9.5k [+0.4k])
Prototype Pantheon [Normal] (DPS: 10.6k [+1.7k])
Anduin Wrynn [Normal] (DPS: 13,3k [-2.6k])
Lords of Dread [Normal - Progress] (DPS: 10.3k)
Rygelon [Normal - Progress] (DPS: 7.9k)
Vigilant Guardian [Heroic] (DPS: 7.3k [-0,9k])
The only gear difference from last week I had this week was upgrading a weapon from 265 to 268 and swapped out the 252 tier gloves with 275 m+ ones. Some bosses like Vigilant Guardian and Anduin I guess my dps will go down as long as the more aoe burst type classes keep getting more gear. Bosses like Halondrus and Dausegne it's easy to be consistant on. While Prototype is easier to do better on if the ranged can manage to take down the far add to let melee have more uptime.
Only have Jailer left on normal. After that I think I will take a small break from raiding until I can pick up tier from the catchup mechanic. Assuming there will be a switch to heroic once normal is cleared, so will have a rerun of last season where one had to do pug to get the domination shards or be left behind on meters. Some have 2-set, some have 4 set but a few people like me don't have any tier bonuses. Which can often be seen on meters. People were fairly close a few weeks ago, but giving PI to someone with tier bonus now just skews it all. Doing non-tier bosses on heroic instead of tier bosses on normal will not something I'll bother with.
One thing that has been really good this raid tier is that the last hour the people in charge has sent us into heroic for the less mechanic bloated bosses. The gear is still shit, but people handle that a lot better after 3 hours of raid than doing learning pulls. Makes my brain less fried after the raid too.
Keystones completed (4)
Plaguefall +5 **
Tazavesh Gambit +6 **
Sanguine Depths +11 *
Sanguine Depths +9 **
This week I mostly wanted to get to 1700 score for the new valor upgrade bracket. So safed in PF and Gambit score, then just did a couple of Sanguine runs to get a second option in vault. Once I have KSM on Wutteät, I will try to push for 2000 rating and do 8 12-15s for vault on Storm.
Much like raid has shown when it comes to set bonuses, m+ is doubly so. More and more people ask for tier in LFG, and the fury warrior with 4 piece vs the keyholder with 0 tier and bad ilevel makes the dps meter look weird. Doing +20 with a group with everyone in 4 piece and double legendary and 275 iLevel or so must be fairly easy this season I'm guessing.
Stats
iLevel: 263 [+4]
Legendary items: Doom Winds [r7], Unity [r7] (+7), Witch Doctor's Wolf Bones [r7], Echoes of the Great Sundering [r3], Cloak of the Windspeaker [r4], Handguards of the Primal Tides [r1], Deeptremor Signet [r1]
Score: 1741 [+74]
Raid prog: 10/11 Normal [+2], 1/11 Heroic [-]
Professions: Herbalism (max) and Skinning (max)
Valor total: 3750 [+750]
Tier: 1/5 [-]
Other happenings
RIO always on point with april fools. Leaf Me Alone and Streets of Pain my favorites this time around.
The dropping out of guild groups plan has moved forward. I did some guild dungeons on Wutteät on wednesday since Tara offered me key(s) I needed last week, and I had some she needed this week so used up my patience then. Repeated "no" for doing stuff didn't work so they made Tara ask me to do stuff another night, and I joined like a pug tank would. During the weekend I left with the guild with all my characters except Stormlufser and Dominator. I have been trying to get my own guild up so I do the same thing I do on horde, but asking for signs in stormwind on ED right now is obviously hard. So gonna have to poke discord people.
Fairly close to KSM. Was expecting to pug more this week, but after the second set of guild runs I've barely played. There's still tonight, so I might try to get another 5-10 score before reset to make it easier next week but we shall see...
One of the best perks of pugging is that I once again can do learning runs the way I want, and having more access to doing them. Done a lot of Gambit this week, and picked up a lot more things. Dragon boss still the most iffy, as it goes out of control almost no matter what once you close in on the 2 minute mark.
For tier tracker, the shaman gloves in week 2 is still the only tier piece I have gotten across all characters. 4 characters with 2-6 options a week for vault, and a raid with trading possibilities. Bet the vault will have them AFTER I have made them. The fact that they are so grossly imbalanced numbers wise too, makes gearing this tier an absolute joke.
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