Shadowlands Season 3 Week 9: The Almost Week

Another creation catalyst charge, one more reset to go to guarantee 4 piece for the unlucky characters.

Affixes were Tyrannical - Bursting - Volcanic - Encrypted. This is the best Tyrannical week on the rotation. Pugs can be horrid with bursting like with most things, but if you have deaths/wipes to bursting it means you have at least done a pack. So it's less punishing.

Weekly event was Shadowland Dungeons. Not much use for mains at this point except for transmog possibilities, but christmas for alts.

Due to getting a tier set piece in Dominator's and Hollowfury's vaults I almost completed all patch goals this week. Having already finished most of Stormlufser's goals and Wutteät missing one tier piece to be done, I'm practically done with the patch at this point.

Stormlufser the Awakened

Needs a vault item or another valor cap for the iLevel goal. Not gonna bother with heroic raid attendance.

Raid goals

Attend 80%+ of the normal raids. [Current: 100% normal attendance, raid completed!]

Attend 40-60% of the heroic raids. [First pure heroic raid I've been asked to tank due to someone being away, making me lose interest in any more raiding this tier]

Keystone goals

2125+ score [Current: 2133]

World goals

269 iLevel [Current: 268 iLevel].

Rank 7 enhance legendary. [Current: Doom Winds rank 7 & Witch Doctor's Wolf Bones rank 7]

Rank 7 unity legendary. [Current: Unity (Head slot) rank 7]

Chapter 4 of patch campaign. [Current: Campaign completed]

Get 4 piece set bonus. [Current: 5 tier pieces]

Wutteät the Cryptic

Needs a reset to make another tier piece, then done. Not gonna bother with the campaign.

Keystone goals

2500+ score [Current: 2505]

World goals

272 iLevel [Current: 272 iLevel].

Rank 7 vengeance legendary. [Current: Scorched Soul Shackles rank 7]

Rank 7 unity legendary. [Current: Unity (Belt) rank 7]

Finish patch campaign. [Current: Chapter 5 completed]

Get 4 piece set bonus. [Current: 3 set pieces]

Honored with Enlightened. [Current: Honored]

Hollowfury the Faceless One

Will just get the iLevel and score naturally with another reset of 4 dungeons. Not gonna bother doing the campaign stuff.

Keystone goals

1750+ score [Current: 1700]

World goals

266 iLevel [Current: 265 iLevel].

Rank 6 blood legendary. [Current: Waistguard of the Crimson Rune rank 6]

Rank 6 unity legendary. [Current: Unity (Cloak) rank 7]

Get 4 piece set bonus. [Current: 4 set pieces]

Chapter 4 of patch campaign [Current: Chapter 3 completed]

Completed Characters

Dominator the Scenaturdist

Prot pala in this patch has felt more like BFA prot. Mostly because of all the shields flying everywhere, but also because the damage output is so high. It is missing some of the personal choice bits in BFA for me, but the visual appeal and padding is back. The set bonus felt more like a numbers increase and haven't had much impact on how I play. The double legendary however, and increased secondary stats was the biggest help.

After getting 4 piece, this char got better than my DH. And have some keys done that are better than the DH. But from what I can gather pala has some of the same issues it did in BFA and early in Shadowlands. At some point white hits just clocks it. So it might not be a superior choice over Vengeance afterall.

The set bonus didn't give incentive to play for longer, but a couple of weeks where I pad and do more overall in dungeons than my shaman will be a bit of fun.

Keystone goals

1750 score. [Current: 2302]

World goals

266 iLevel [Current: 268 iLevel].

Rank 6 protection legendary. [Current: Seal of Righteous Fury rank 7]

Campaign Unity legendary. [Current: Unity (Cloak) rank 7]

Get 4 piece set bonus. [Current: 4 set pieces]

Complete patch campaign. [Current: Complete]

Revered with Enlightened. [Current: Revered]

Another break?

This week I had 2 characters with 4 piece, the best affix set for pushing so far this season and what did I do? Play wednesday for a bit and that was it.

Between the set bonuses not making any of the classes I play more fun, but it is needed due to output, kinda felt pointless. All the other gear is just the same as the last two seasons. The dungeons are the same. The raid is unrewarding, has role logistics problems and is designed and scaled to go on forever for a guild like TH.

I didn't mean to take a break, but simply started logging off whenever I logged on out of habit and was just sitting there like it was IRC. So curious if this will end up with a break without meaning too, or more long term tired of the game sort of deal.

Will be interesting to see if it lasts longer than my intended breaks, at least!