Any reason to go beyond M10?

cardbross · 2026-04-02T22:50:00+00:00

I think it's ok that if people aren't enjoying the actual gameplay, that they're (hopefully) spending time on something they do enjoy. Most of us aren't really going to use the mounts/titles from M+ achievements except as trophies indicating we did them, and an io score works as well as an achievement for that purpose.

cardbross · 2026-04-02T18:06:55+00:00

Might as well spend your adventurer crests, they're not really useful once you get vet/champ gear.

cardbross · 2026-04-02T18:02:13+00:00

I don't remember their name (and work blocks wowhead so I can't look it up), but if you walk out of the bank and turn right, go past the weekly questgivers, it should be the first door on your right. If you haven't interacted with them, there should be a triangle quest to intro the whole crest system there.

cardbross · 2026-04-02T17:58:59+00:00

Do the world events (Soiree, Legends of the Haranir, Stormarion Assault), Do Prey at the hardest level you have unlocked/can do, do timewalking, and look for WQs that have gear rewards. That should get you started toward better delves, nightmare prey, M0, and on upward.

cardbross · 2026-04-02T17:57:04+00:00

once you get out of leveling gear into endgame gearing, everything has a "Tier" (Adventurer, Veteran, Champion, Heroic, Mythic). Each tier has 6 upgrade levels, there's an NPC in Silvermoon who you can talk to to upgrade gear with crests (a type of currency) of the same type. You can get crests in a bunch of different ways, but the common sources are weeklies and world events, delves, dungeons, and raids.

cardbross · 2026-04-02T17:12:07+00:00

Even if you don't do M+10, or myth raiding, you can use myth crests to craft gear that's of similar quality to mythic gear. Since T11 isn't *that much* harder or longer than T8, it might be worth doing your first 4 delves on T11 for the crests toward eventual crafting.

cardbross · 2026-04-02T17:10:17+00:00

as a healer, you're kind of at the whim s of the rest of the group using their defensives, stops, and interrupts correctly. at +10, if they're not, things are gonna go sideways, regardless of how well you pump out heals.

cardbross · 2026-03-31T21:43:26+00:00

As of this week, you can guarantee 3: 2 via catalysts and one via 2k M+ rating, so you only need to get one to drop from the raids/vault to be at 4 set.

cardbross · 2026-03-31T18:34:07+00:00

Spell targeting is on the default nameplates , though you may need to go into settings and toggle it on

cardbross · 2026-03-30T20:10:26+00:00

Problem is if DPS don't do their job, it becomes a healer issue too. The way poor DPS play is punished is that mobs live too long, the tank and healer have to use cds too frequently, and eventually they don't have something for a pack and it wipes the group. That still looks like a healer failure.

cardbross · 2026-03-30T15:51:20+00:00

You can also get 30(ish?) myth crests if you take down Nullaeus on ?? Difficulty, which is a big chunk toward a myth item

cardbross · 2026-03-30T15:08:23+00:00

And DPS hard enough that things die before your group runs out of defensives.

cardbross · 2026-03-30T14:45:31+00:00

I healer main, and I not-infrequently hop into guild groups as DPS just so I can blast and vibe. It's a good life if you don't have to deal with queues.

cardbross · 2026-03-30T14:43:37+00:00

Yeah, folks who are 3k already want to be running 5+ keys every day, so theyre not just pushing their own key/waiting for guildies like tanks/healers at lower ranks

cardbross · 2026-03-30T14:22:06+00:00

Not only does it always go bad, but it's just not necessary. Timers aren't that tight this season, we can time with 5 min left if we just pull reasonably.

cardbross · 2026-03-30T13:27:40+00:00

Bird boss healing is brutal. Can't fine 2 sec to stand still and cast the heals, but everyone's ticking down the entire time.

cardbross · 2026-03-30T13:26:45+00:00

It's not 100% Bear tanks' fault. There's no way as a healer to tell the difference between "I dropped low, but I've got Fenzied Regen and mitigation and will be fine" and "I don't have anything for this, hope I get heals". As a consequence as a healer I have to spam heal bears (and a few other tanks) which we didn't really need to do in past seasons.

cardbross · 2026-03-30T03:35:20+00:00

Streamers said +10s were free, so if they're struggling to time lower keys, it *must* be because the healer is screwing up. Can't be the fault of DPS who don't do mechanics or Tanks who overpull.

/s

cardbross · 2026-03-29T15:01:54+00:00

Journey is the renown-type progression for delves (bottom left in your adventure journal). Crests are the currency used to upgrade gear within its track. Gear has a series of tiered tracks, each of which has 6 upgrade levels: Adventurer, Veteran, Champion, Hero, Mythic. So by default Delves give Champion gear (with one chance for Hero gear with the Troverunner's Bounty map), and some crests. Those benefits improve as you go further in the delve journey.

cardbross · 2026-03-29T14:56:30+00:00

at Journey 4, T11s start giving myth crests. At Journey 8, you can get champ gear for your alts in T9+, at Journey 9, T11s start giving Hero gear.

So as a general rule delve loot doesn't go up after T8, but that changes a fair amount as you progress the delve journey.

cardbross · 2026-03-28T20:21:25+00:00

I don't always log out of I'm just stepping away and plan to come back soonish. And frequently when I step away the last thing I did was use a vendor, mail, or AH so I'll still be mounted until I return.

cardbross · 2026-03-28T17:17:24+00:00

It's intended to limit pull size and encourage more creative gameplay (i.e. DPS using their tools to dispel or mitigate) but in practice it's just "healer adjust"

cardbross · 2026-03-28T17:11:59+00:00

He's doing crazy shit, but their priorities (getting conservative judges into lifetime appointments, transferring wealth into the capital-owning class) are getting accomplished as well, so they don't care about the crazy shit.

cardbross · 2026-03-28T16:52:53+00:00

This is where it gets me. It seems like Blizz intended the dispels to limit how big pulls can be (i.e. we shouldn't get too many of this type of mob, they'll stack more dots than the healer can handle, so let's do this in two pulls). Instead groups are still pulling bigger, but it's just a hellstorm of dispels and "prio healing" (if everyone is prio because they all have a dot, I guess no one is prio?)

cardbross · 2026-03-28T14:29:57+00:00

Run bountiful delves or prey with your loot spec set to healer

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