The next tier

I didn't do any posts last week. Haven't been playing too much this or the previous week. It's december, so there is so much stuff to do and places to be (thankfully a lot got canceled by corona). And I've been ill. Not very ill, but had no energy to do anything.

There is lots of talk about the 9.2 patch. And I need to find out what to main. I don't really think I can do another tier as balance druid. I got pretty tired of it. And I have realised that I'm actually a pretty bad healer, so I'm going for a less important role this time. I've sat up lots of criterias (how powerful they are in different scenarios, useful utilities, if it sparks joy and so on), and weighted the important stuff. I've based the list on druid, lock and shaman since those are the max level characters I have. The result:

1. Feral

2. Balance

3. Affliction

4. Elemental

5. Enhancement

6. Demonology

7. Destruction

To my big surprise, feral actually ended up on top. I have tried feral before. The verdict back then was that it was too squishy. I died to everything. And I'm not used to being a melee character. Don't know which mobs who cleaves and stuff. But it can probably be learned. If it turns out that feral was a trap, I have balance as a backup solution. If my goal is power and very high keys, feral is probably not the way to go. But if I want to have fun and feel cool, it might. But I also think that the raid leader would rather have a ranged dps.

Second place goes to balance. Every logical thing tells me to go balance. Meh.

Third place was affliction. I am seriously considering if I should be warlock again. That might be fun. I have done some dungeons lately, and even a few raid bosses. It feels okay, and that I could main it. But when I do dungeons I really miss my druid utility. I feel that I contribute less for the greater good, even if I should be able to keep up with the damage. I have very little self healing too. I also feel more useful as balance in raids, because of my movement. I will be able to do much more mechanics as balance.

I have a some goals for the remaining part of this tier

• Choose a spec for the next tier

• Get max kyrian renown on Blomst

• Get max necro renown on Ruthe

• Get max rep for archivist codex

Pugging an 11 Spires as feral