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The worst expansion as far as M+ is concerned, buff nonsense to make an even greater demand in the dungeons of a certain covenant... Because of mdi people can't get into dung unless they're a disco priest or a holy paladin... What's the point of paying the sub and sitting in the queue all day... some people should be banned from watching the stream. Good job BLIZZ once again showed that you are stupid and that you function as a reality...
Just want to say that I resonate with what you’re saying. With guides like this that Wowhead is putting out, with RIO, and the “meta”, the community has become more toxic than ever. I don’t disagree with the meta. They work for a reason. All these world firsts have the meta because they are pushing very, very high end content that most of us won’t be doing. But the pain point is when it trickles down to the lower/mid-tier players, who expect with this meta the dungeon will succeed because of the perception that it will be automatically easier. (News flash: it won’t)What will make it easier and create smoother runs is the knowledge of you and your teammates class, your rotations, and the knowledge of the dungeon (what to kick, where to move, how to position).Every class is viable. Until you’re pushing world firsts.But this also brings me to the next point: We won’t know if the player we are PUGing is good or not. And sadly the only quantifiable metric is RIO which is why people gravitate towards that. It’s not a perfect system because there are high RIO players who aren’t good but just happen to join really good groups.Nothing is ever perfect. I for one have adopted the mentality of staying chill in PUGs (cause you never know who you get) and if you wanna push keys, find like minded players and add them to your friends list.
I still don't have any character that's joined Kyrian or Venthyr. I have nothing against them, for the record; it's just that I prefer the aesthetics and playstyle of the Night Fae and Maldraxxus abilities. I get all kinds of weird looks from people when they see my warrior isn't Venthyr. Someone wasted a few minutes trying to ask me why in a +16 Halls of Atonement because when told to grab a gargoyle, I said "Night fae can't do that". Dude went off on me about how I picked the wrong covenant. Joke's on him; I dominated the dps charts on almost every pull, excluding the last boss. I never died once, used potions and cooldowns properly, and played smart around the idiot check mechanics like the statues on the final boss (to which he died to in the first telekinesis of the encounter). I may not have been meta, but I knew how to play and I pulled respectable numbers, especially on trash pulls. The healer may not have liked me either, since fury takes tons of extra damage and has terrible defensives because Blizzard clearly hates the spec, but that's besides the point. The important part was that, despite having gargoyles as enemies instead of buffs made the pulls a little bit more unfun, but we didn't NEED to take control of them. We had the DPS to just mash through. The extra DPS would've been nice, but so too would have been that guy not wasting time complaining about me being a hippie instead of a stuck-up vampire!What matters is that as long as you play correctly, you can pick the wrong covenant as long as you're not some lunatic that wants maximum damage to the tenthousandth decimal point. I'm not knocking the min-max community though, since I like watching their +20 keys in videos as it's a world I won't bother going for. It's just that being the "wrong" covenant is a satisfying way to put down someone who's mouthy and can't back up their words! It's weird playing a niche pick though. Warrior dps is pretty rare, as I never see another dps warrior, even in raids, though I guess people can't stomach taking two of us or more. Totally understand why, but still.Wrong Covenant gang, rise up!
I got KSM on an enhancement shaman. You folks who think this type of content is toxic are honestly just silly. These articles are intended to help people be more competitive on whatever class/spec they want to play. I run 16s and 17s with the entire spectrum of spec/covenant combinations in pugs and with friends. If you aren't able to do the content you think you "should" be able to do, you're probably the problem. Practice and learn your spec if you want to do better. More challenging content requires more skill, knowledge, and practice. /shrug
"Asking somebody to play an off-meta covenant choice is only really a strategy for the highest of key groups and it will typically be those who lose the least by swapping"Really. I assume I'm the anomaly. You always have those few who go against the grain.
Havoc DHs also have a fair chance to be venthyr specced.
Thank god we have a bunch of sententious people here to tell the rest of us how much toxicity WE'RE creating. The call is coming from inside the house.