WoW Stuff - Pandarian raiding and my level of frustration

[shadow_stallion]

It’s rare that I am inspired to blog these days and I wish I had a better or more interesting topic on my mind. It seems that inevitably I end up getting frustrated or flustered with my WoW raid team and instead of blowing up at them I end up here, ranting to myself and those who read.

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[schnee]

I really can't say much about most of this, but...

What finally rubbed me raw with him for the night was when I questioned the addition of a DK and the loss of our off heals. The response I got was along the lines of “Well most all of the fights require only two healers and besides, we made accommodations for you in Firelands when you had to be out on certain days.” Fuck! Way to slap me in the face and shut me up. >.< I really hope he did not mean for it to come across that way but that is exactly how I took it. I didn’t speak to him the rest of the night other than to revert to my “Okay” responses to a few things he said. (Frustration 5)

I think next time someone says something like that, it would be better if you told them. No matter of whether it was intended like that, you DID take it that way, and that's entirely valid. Your feelings are important, and if you feel hurt and offended, I think the best thing is to let it out, not keep it bottled up and revert to shutting yourself off.

While I don’t fancy myself as a hard-core

[shadow_stallion]

*hugs*

Yes I am having fun and yes it can be work. I really do enjoy our raid nights but there of course will come some frustration here and there. What you see here is just the result of several raid nights and some irritations that have been a small part of an overall experience.

*chuckles* I get that some people see WoW as work and can't understand why people play or how they enjoy it. I could turn that around and say I see things like SL and Minecraft the same way. I don't see the point and I see it as a lot of work. It's all about perceptions, what you enjoy and what makes you happy. I'll bitch about my WoW experience but ultimately if I wasn't enjoying it I wouldn't be doing it. :)

[schnee]

*hugs back* MMMmm. :)

I'm glad to hear that! Contrary to what it may perhaps have sounded like, I wasn't trying to say that WoW necessarily is work; just that it sounds like it to me. I was wondering if you might be sticking with it more out of habit than out of current enjoyment.

But I'm glad I was wrong there; fun is paramount, and it's good you are, by and large, having that.

Heh, I'll agree about Minecraft, although I suppose the same thing can be said there: sure, you do certain things (what might derisively be called "grinding"), but as long as you enjoy it, that's fine.

SL is different for me personally at least insofar as that there is none of that. You can build and all that, sure, but you don't have to; there's no overarching goal, or even a direction to the whole thing (which is one thing that sets it apart from most other games). For me, it's mostly a giant social 3D environment that I can move around in and meet friends and talk to them.

[wolphin]

In my book you're moving into pretty hard core raiding territory. To be that rank on your server, I'd say you're up there.

As Schnee says though, are you having fun? For me, I didn't like the pressure of regular raiding. I liked the raiding, but raid nights felt like a job, which is why I'm now the odd one out with the lousy gear and I don't think any MoP non LFR kills.

[shadow_stallion]

Yes, I'm having fun. As I told him, what I posted here is the result of a lot of little things over the course of several weeks. They represent a small fraction of my overall good experience.

MoP feels like a job to me. To get geared for raiding, specially early on in the expansion you have to do a ton of dailies, LFR, etc. I did not like that at all. And yes, raid night can be work. More often than not though it is a good and fun experience.

You end up seeing the worst side of it here when I post about things that bother me. If I posted more and talked about our sucess you'd probably see the happier and fun side of it.

[wolphin]

Yeah, I am not particularly pleased with some of the changes Bliz implemented this patch. Especially after they made a big song and dance about having choice and nothing was mandatory, then when I got there I discovered, "want the good gear, start doing dailies"

That's one reason why my gear level is where it is at the moment. Everything is double gated - you need to get the rep, then get the VP points for it and the only way to get rep is to run dailies.

I much preferred the LK and Cata systems. Put in a tabard and run the dungeon you liked. But I was thinking about it, If I'm on for say 30 minutes, which quite possibly is my daily limit some times, I can do some dailies or maybe a random dungeon and that's it. It will take me weeks, if not months or years to get gear and by that stage it will be obsolete.

Great, now I'm whinging :)

[shadow_stallion]

I have heard rumours about patch 5.2 and it implementing some sort of system where you can get rep without doing dailies. It sounded like it would be similar to wearing a tabard in dungeons and getting rep that way.

Also, don't forget that at revered you can buy a token from that faction that doubles the rep granted for that faction (account wide). :)