So I was gonna try to pick up a blog thing again since I have played so much WoW and have a lot of opinions, and I was lured here to add to this thingie - that will hopefully make me not ramble on forever in each post.
When BFA launched, I had barely touched the game at all in Legion except prepatch, and been an Alliance main since The Burning Crusade launched, but thanks to the gravitational pull of Ruthe and Krissie there was a reunion of the group that played together on and off during Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Liche King. Since my brief impression from Legion was that Protection Paladin was about the only spec I cared much for I leveled this character that was made in Burning Crusade, and has been level 80 since mid Wrath until the prepatch for BFA hit in Legion.
I kinda made a "plan" of things I wanted to do, since my usual routine of leveling alts and then getting some form of gear from casual battlegrounds and ignoring pve content was no longer an option after the legion prepatch in Warlords. And nobody was interested in arenas, so back to pve it was. I made a mental note to stay far away from doing high mythic plus keys and raiding, as that road usually leads to way too much playing and a hardcore mindset for me. And in vanilla I was known for tank rage, so perhaps not the best for anyone else with progress stuff either was the thought. So just get mythic 0s done, get some ok gear and just do casual alt leveling and some bgs or something from then on, depending on what the group went with.
It started fairly well, I leveled from 110 to 120 in a day and a half, which meant doing all the zone quests more or less and a bunch of dungeons at the side. And the group kept doing stuff together for weeks, sadly my aptitude of forgetting to take screenshots of the group I stick with until it is too late or mess it up was done again in this expansion, somehow my only group screenshot is just 4 people and missing Krissie.
However, the group didn't really last. Ruthe and Krissie were raiding and needed high keys to be geared for stuff they were doing, Champain needed his pvp dose and Ulan tried to find some middle ground everyone could do. But I was not much of a team player so kinda tapped out playing alliance more and more instead of joining something the others were doing... And ended up quitting the game a bit over two months after the BFA release. I think I learned my lesson after all these years of playing WoW that its fine to have a real life friends group, but having it as the focal point just never seems to work out unless everyone's goals and interests are the same. Everyone just ends up playing by themselves or with online friends that have same goals/interests at some point anyway... :( Counts double for me, it seems....
However, I came back about 4 months after I quit and uninstalled, and while I never went back to the idea of just maining Viator, but just played it to blow off steam after doing alliance stuff. So he kept being fairly geared throughout season 2. In season 3 however, after the raiding season was over, I accidentally bumped into some friends from Heroes of the Storm that was looking into doing keys. And since alliance was in a lump, Viator was really close to getting more progress than any of my alliance characters. However, keeping a full group was a major problem since everyone was on different sleeping schedules, between early risers and all nighters, so some pugging was always needed it felt like. This lasted for a while into season 4, but the corruption patch REALLY started to burn people out so the goal of doing all 15s in time died really, really fast.
It was really nice to have a group that consistently had a tank and healer (Avangialine), it was really weird it was the dps that never really stayed except Zoaffi in this here image. Briefly managed to lure in a couple of people from alliance to fill out the group, crossing the streams so to speak.
Here the frost mage is the only pug, which always makes life easier, and even if the run had went a bit bad, people kept being civil and relaxed, which is most important to me doing this stuff. Was still early in the season and all that. However, the dreaded "maybe" response to keys started happening...
In the end, only one thing could happen, which this one screenshot so accurately summed up what I thought about continuing to keep playing this character this expansion again...
All in all, out of all my characters, I still think I like this one the best. The Blood Elf racial has been changed since I played it much last, less usefull for pvp but for 5 mans where dispells is either lacking or the dps isnt bothering, having it for places like Underrot was super good.
However, the major highlight from this expansion was shortly after corruptions was implemented, and everyone could see how balanced it was... And as a tank it was finally revealed having dps in the group was optional.
I can't remember if this was before season 4 actually started or if it was one of the first weeks, but looking at the group comp fairly sure it was in offseason.
All in all, I both failed at staying away from trying to do progress keys/pve content and play in moderation, but also failed to get into a proper guild, get a consistent group for anything or generally get anywhere. And since it lasted for the entire expansion, I decided to not bother trying to do anything with this character in Shadowlands, except join the Venthyr covenant and do some degenerate playing for the rng legendary recipes that my main ends up needing but won't actually get to drop.
And perhaps change gender in the barbershop, I am really tired of the male blood elf laughter by now...
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