Dear community,
hello reader,
today I would like to assign my (very personal und subjective) point of "Why WoW sucks for me". I really hope to get some advice/hints how to solve my situation.
=> When starting with WoW back in Vanilla, I was an average pupil. I loved the game and had a lot of fun, mainly doing PvP back then.
=> When BC hits me, I re-rolled and successfully started PvE with raiding up to SWP 3/6 pre-nerf (which I'm fine with). I was an average student in these days.
=> With WotLK I continued PvE raiding by joining a world-wide top100 guild for Ulduar and ToC. When I started to work, I had to quit and since ICC I just play for fun.
My problem is, in fact I'm a quite skilled player (at least I was told so). I hate to wait for other players during raids, I hate long breaks between wipes, I'm perfectly prepared for every single raid I enter (regarding spec, bufffood, flask, enchants, sockets, tactic, whatever). Usually I do not fail twice to any boss mechanic and I barely let my raid-mates die.
But since I have to work and get more and more into "family life" with my girlfriend and stuff, I just have less time. I have time to play this game like 15h a week, but due to the fact I cannot predict my work schedule, I cannot assure my raid attendance on day X. I cannot assure to be there on Thursday for raid, I just can assure to be there one day a week. I would love to raid bot/psa and even if it's not heroic I'd like to see Firelands normal. I don't need my progress back with 5 days a week while farming 25 dailies and doing heroic achievements. But I would like to see those raids with skilled players and an enjoyable raid.
WoW has many tools to find groups. You can do the dungeon finder or the raid browser, you can ask in LFG or trade channels and you can whisper guilds/raids whether they have a spot or not. But those are more or less a joke... yesterday there was a raid starting psa and refuses to take me with them. Two hours later they had two bosses down and searched for a new healer...
Even if I find a raid when I would like to play this game, this PUG sucks. Even if they have like full i359 equip I'm not comfortable to play with them due to their lazyness and different attitude to the raid/game. It's even not possible to get 4 skilled players to do 5-man heroic stuff.
So what are my possibilities? Is there any way to find exceptional raids which do NOT insist on raiding on a specific day? Or in other words: how do I find those raid when I would like to raid? Jumping through OG and waiting for a skilled raid taking me with them is all I can do?!
Regards,
TioZ