No Longer Viable
I talked to my raid team leader last night, and it’s apparent that our raid team is no longer viable. Our raid leader is going to take some time and decides what he wants to do. I’m doing the same. Wich did a fantastic job of running our raid team, but he couldn’t keep guys interested in the game. We simply took too many loses, too quickly to recover.
The question now what do I do. I seem to be at a crossroads. I still enjoy raiding and haven't even seen the last two bosses in Firelands.
The first problem is I really have no desire to continue raiding on my Hunter. I switched from tanking on my Paladin Tank to DPS as a Hunter for Cataclysm. I've done okay but it's clear to me I'm struggling as a DPS. For some reason the Hunter rotation just didn’t click with me. I don’t know why. I was fighting to stay out of the 5 hole when we ran two tanks and struggled to stay out of 6 hole when we ran one.
I tried switched from SV to Marks with the idea being a higher ceiling would let me achieve better numbers. It didn’t help. When we would bring in other hunters they would out dps me even though I out geared them. I’ve went on EJ, TKA Something, Warcraft Hunter’s Union, but my numbers didn’t improve much. Something just wasn’t clicking.
So I don’t want to continue on the Hunter, but I would like to keep raiding. My preferred toon would be my Warrior, but he's got more greens than a house salad.
One option is to gear him up and try to find a new raid team. But we are about 10 or 11 weeks away from SWTOR's release. Does it make any sense to try to find a new team when I'm less than 3 months out from changing games?
If I don’t try to keep raiding, is there any point in keeping my account active?
But what if SWTOR gets delayed?
Another option would be to try for Trade Chat PuGs. I don’t know how well they are doing on my realm, but getting in one might be hard without the necessary Achievements.
Bottom line is I like raiding. It's something I still want to do and I still have months until Star Wars.
I’d love to hear any suggestions or advice you might have?
The question now what do I do. I seem to be at a crossroads. I still enjoy raiding and haven't even seen the last two bosses in Firelands.
The first problem is I really have no desire to continue raiding on my Hunter. I switched from tanking on my Paladin Tank to DPS as a Hunter for Cataclysm. I've done okay but it's clear to me I'm struggling as a DPS. For some reason the Hunter rotation just didn’t click with me. I don’t know why. I was fighting to stay out of the 5 hole when we ran two tanks and struggled to stay out of 6 hole when we ran one.
I tried switched from SV to Marks with the idea being a higher ceiling would let me achieve better numbers. It didn’t help. When we would bring in other hunters they would out dps me even though I out geared them. I’ve went on EJ, TKA Something, Warcraft Hunter’s Union, but my numbers didn’t improve much. Something just wasn’t clicking.
So I don’t want to continue on the Hunter, but I would like to keep raiding. My preferred toon would be my Warrior, but he's got more greens than a house salad.
One option is to gear him up and try to find a new raid team. But we are about 10 or 11 weeks away from SWTOR's release. Does it make any sense to try to find a new team when I'm less than 3 months out from changing games?
If I don’t try to keep raiding, is there any point in keeping my account active?
But what if SWTOR gets delayed?
Another option would be to try for Trade Chat PuGs. I don’t know how well they are doing on my realm, but getting in one might be hard without the necessary Achievements.
Bottom line is I like raiding. It's something I still want to do and I still have months until Star Wars.
I’d love to hear any suggestions or advice you might have?
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ie. If the Hunter is bad new for you then retire it and play something you like.
Or if you're just over wow in general, then stop for a while. You can always return if you feel the need, and at this stage my only advice would be to cap your Justice points so that you're read to buy the t12 stuff when t13 is released. Just in case you return.
Personally I'd look for players/teams that are happy to take a regular pug. Many guilds & players have friends who step in when they're short, so I'd advertise yourself as that amongst your social groups.
Give RIFT or Lord of the Rings a shot. If you just treat it as a leveling game, it could be fun for a few months.
Or try some single-player games until Star Wars comes out.
In the meantime, cap your Valor Points and take a break.
@Rohan - that's another idea. I played Champions Online F2P toward the end of Wrath.
@Dinaer - I expect Blizzard to hold 4.3 until early to mud December.
LOTRO never did it for me.
I don't think Star Wars is going to be delayed. They didn't have to release a street date yet so they're pretty confident about that date.
I wish I had some advice on what to do for the next couple months but I really don't. There are a few games out there that are F2P that I'll probably try out.
You helped me a while back with pally stuff, thought I'd return the favor :)
Raist
I have been on the fence now as to where to go. I have done pug raids. Some are good but most are just old raid zones. FL pug raids are nightmares.
Miss our group and sucked to see it fade out.
When there were lots of people leveling we got lolzerg invasions in the lowbie zones. That doesn't happen nearly as often now, particularly in the intermediate zones (like Scarlet Gorge). There's still plenty of invasion activity in the high level zones (IPP, Shimmersand, Stillmoor).