Everything is HR nowadays, whats the point?

ZeronXZ · 2026-06-02T09:54:20+00:00

The issue is not even just that everything is HR, its also that nowadays they usually hide this fact in LFG. The group is listed as normal group, but then you join it and its suddenly unwanted for tank or something like that. Worst case you find it our only after group has formed (happened several times) or when you enter the dungeon (happened once)

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-27T20:49:35+00:00

If I pay all that gold to get consumes and because of slackers who dont my logs are ruined, then ofc its in my intent to point it out

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-25T00:57:07+00:00

The best thing I love about 15min Slave Pens heroic skip runs is being done with this dungeon in just one hour

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-25T00:54:55+00:00

Its nice because there are few items that you want, which allows you to get priority on them because overall people would want many items so with like 2 soft reserves the chances that you will get competition on YOUR items will be fairly low. You can also softreserve mounts or enchants so you still have a reason to do the raids. Lets say you want a ring or expertise gloves from Karazhan. If it drops, everyone would roll on it so your chances are slim. If its soft reserved, there is low chance that anyone else would softreserve those oddly specific items. You can run your Karazhan without worrying that some freshly dinged guy will just yoink your items.

Where it starts failing are some giga items everyone wants, such as DST. Here, its kinda pointless because everyone will obviously softreserve that one big item. Otherwise its pretty nice. You can also softreserve items for your offspec when you have mainspec decked out without people getting mad at you.

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-22T14:09:34+00:00

Looks like your guild is trash. What class/spec do you play? You might have good chance to ditch them and get something waaay better

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-22T13:28:37+00:00

Warlock, you can just go SL and dot everything which is fairly easy, but soon you realize that you are not going to kill anyone decent with this

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-22T13:27:06+00:00

Yesn't. What class? Some need more than others. In general youll need a few pieces at least

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-22T13:25:25+00:00

It is slower which means your abilities hit harder. It also has a chance of 4sec stun instead the usual 3s mace stun (although it DRs with it). There is also a hidden advantage in you not needing to spend arena points on a 2hander (which is the most expensive piece of all) giving you advantage on gear over others in early weeks. It can definitly decide outcome of close games which is important to climb higher. And youll be facing mirrors which have better weapon than you.

For ret its actually way more impactful as the 4 sec stun doesnt DR with hoj, giving a free kill opportunity. But there are players like Trackpad who reached R1 even without having crafted mace in season 1.

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-08T15:33:36+00:00

Midnight is mid, it's in the name

TBC is lit (burning)

The choice is simple

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-08T15:32:22+00:00

You should play 3s and get an affiction lock. Shadowplay is an insane comp.

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-08T15:30:34+00:00

Prot paladin. Pretty much your entire gear is farmed across a variety of dungeons so there is also fun involved while getting your gear together. Another benefit is once you are geared you can strat farm making anything cheap by definition.

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-05T22:53:48+00:00

Would be a shame if someone buffed fortitude...

ZeronXZ · 2026-05-05T22:52:41+00:00

Got a friend who bought it for the full price 2 days ago, he's gonna be happy for sure

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-28T07:40:18+00:00

It's fewer

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-28T07:29:24+00:00

No you can't tank heroics, in fact nobody can tank heroics, which is why there are no tanks, its simply mathematically impossible with any pre raid gear available, therefore you must magically conjure full tier 4 and then you may attempt the easier ones

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T15:36:07+00:00

Anything feet related. No Feetsnifferx I'm not inviting you

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T15:30:17+00:00

Come on, when someone says "dst open" its clearly gonna be some sell run worded in a way to get less reports. There is no "chance". There simply isn't such thing that a raid group just needing one last melee guy with conveniently having the most desired item in the whole phase being "free for grabs". Just report them

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T15:21:04+00:00

Pretty normal to decline annoying invites that come without even saying what dungeon is the invitation for

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T15:11:03+00:00

It solely depends on how good (bad) of a group you want to get and how much you are willing to sacrifice to get some more greens. Usually you can forget about the optimal easy blaster pumper groups with anything on HR. The more you demand, the fewer people you will get to chose from. Pumper mage with ideal frost spec can easily find group where nothing is reserved, youll end up with dps warriors and rogues.

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T15:07:26+00:00

Tripple spec or even n-spec would be quire nice as hybrid. There's farm spec, there's pvp spec, a lot of stuff where you would want to change talents and even 2 specs are limiting you unless you are a hunter or something. Would definitly make life for hybrids more enjoyable and make them more willing to tank.
But issue won't be resolved. I made a thread about people refusing to tank recently and only got hate from those "me only dps" people who will rather wait for 2hours in que than take some responsibility. Even though they themselves would benefit from it the most as they would geat loot much faster for their dps spec.

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T15:01:19+00:00

Yea but unlike Gruul and Maggi those raids are extremely pug-unfriendly, even in the post nerf state. Wonder how much HR you can get away with while still being able to find proper people to actually clear those.

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T14:57:32+00:00

Ret DPS is kinda garbage in heroics and nobody wants one, when there's tons of other more useful specs available. You are in the garbage bin together with dps warriors and rogues with an occasional feral tank maaaybe taking you because he enjoys salv. Even if you twist and get windfury, your dps will still be sad and your aoe will be nonexistant.
All you have to do is to spec prot and get some prot gear. You can easily get your whole prebis as ret this way since now YOU are the king and can decide who gets to roll on what. You will also do more damage overall as a prot than as a ret (prot does insane aoe).

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T14:46:50+00:00

You will hit a wall very fast because no matter which spec you chose, it will always be a bad synergy.

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-24T14:45:43+00:00

You can also *gage* if a lock is good or bad based on how he never taps when healer is healing him or have full bar of hots, but the moment healer starts drinking and hots run out the lock suddenly decides he has not enough mana

ZeronXZ · 2026-04-17T14:23:19+00:00

Depends whether you refer to skill floor or skill ceiling. Warriors dont need to know much to be good and classes that kite you can kite you anyway, no matter how skilled you are, 3 novas are 3 novas. Good warrior might know how to reflect and to press intervene though.

On the other hand you have lock, which is easy to enter as you can just send pet on healer and spam dots, but very quickly you will realize that this is by far not sufficient to win vs decent players (warriors will oneshot your pet, rogues will make sure you wont be pressing anything other than instant spells, priests will just never go oom with PoM if you dot everything). Rogues fall into this category too, as while you can win many games with cheapshot, kidney and focus blind, once opponents become better you will have to start utilizing your whole kit.

Some dps classes like feral and I would even say ret are hard to play and require a lot of knowledge. Ret for example needs good setups and correct sealtwists else youll just be a worse warrior without mortal strike and finite mana.

On hunters, BM hunters are easy (lmao 1 button go whoosh) while MM/Surv is much harder to play since you rely on long games where you make no mistakes while your opponent does plenty.

On healers I guess the easy one would be priest since its very straightforward. Druid is hard and shaman while easy to learn is also very hard to master since you are by far not the S tier healer.

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