So unlike the two previous posts containing the life story and random anecdotes, this is about how I kinda messed up my initial promise to myself not to do high keys and raiding, since I kinda tend to go overboard with that. When I rejoined Twilight Hope on Dominator after over a decade away, I was mostly intending to go social... But the kicker was that the odd m+ I did with them was MILES more relaxed and generally plesant to do, even if they went bad someone found something to laugh about generally. Sometimes people were a bit mad for not timing things, but that seemed like RL stress bleeding in or something. So I kinda felt like hanging more and joined the raids with Dominator as retribution... But they really wanted a ranged for the next season, so I decided to go with Beast Mastery Hunter since it is one of two specs in the game currently where having a pulse is optional to do allright with it.
Cue famous last thoughts.
The first problem was that Twilight Hope had way too many dps in comparison to tank/heal for m+, and while tanking was easy to get groups as due to shortage, gearing up a new dps wasn't. I would have dropped playing it, if it hadn't been for Krissie randomly asking me a couple of times to do some keys. I then got to know someone in the guild called Bubbles that was a healer main, but played alts of different roles in dungeons. Which was when I kinda fell down into the Vanilla/TBC trap of playing WoW seriously again. First of all, it set up the thing I have wanted for years of trading tank/heal/dps runs with someone, so we both got what we wanted, and also started really figuring out routes for a lot of dungeons that I use to this day. Urzien in same guild also kinda joined this loop, so it was kinda like guild paradise for a while.
But then I got the same competitive mindset I had when I played Heroes of the Storm and raided Molten Core and whatnot, and started doing an inane amount of farming both on this hunter Spiritblight and Dominator that I needed to play to make it all go around, and even a couple of other alts. Which has been rather unhealthy I must admit. And as the only character I've done a lot of screenshots with, Spiritblight is 100% some kind of dps padder, and overall meter is the only thing that counts... So there is no emotinal attachment to this character, only the expansion listed as meters...
Beating Wacka on overall in an m+, that by that point I hadnt seen anyone else actually do.
Clearing normal EP in a professional and controlled manner.
Agreeing to join Ruthe's guild's EP run to feel good.
Late patch 8.3 m+ padding.
At some point during the expansion there was drama, Bubbles left the guild (and the game) and Urzien goes on break after every raid season is over to do other things. Which meant I was ready to give this character the "dead in a river" treatment, but buried it on the lone prairie of TBC Nagrand without selling the gear first. Luckily, since Ive come to realise this character has actually kept me sane during this return to raiding malarky, even if I have gone overboard with playtime. Since "we need you to play Dom" is so prevailent, it means I have to tank all the time, and never get variation if that is the only character I play, much like the post season of this patch has showed since Ive tanked all the guild high keys. When there is a raid season and I can play a character I dont need a pulse to play, it means I can chill out with WoW at least one day a week, and get some variation...
So while I am actually going to leave this character in Nagrand, it'll be alive and as a personal reminder to what happens if you stop being rational about time spent doing inane farming on multiple characters. And play a dps for raids to not go mad with tank/organizing stress from the m+ runs..
Oh, and ironically, the best memories of this character comes from seeing the Ayse-killer at work:
And randomly finding some other people to play with... Obviously they seemed to be gone from the game shortly after...
And come to think of it, heroic NYA was pretty fun aswell...
So I guess 8.2 and 8.3 would have been pretty fun if I hadnt forced myself to do so much essence farming, gear farming and cloakstuff. So it was my character flaw, not the character or the game's...
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