When I heard about Shadowlands coming out, I thought about jumping back into WoW. But first, I needed a new character to play.
I almost went back to my Mage, but playing as a fire mage just isn't the same anymore.
So, I figured I'd try something different, like tanking.
I had a bit of tanking experience from playing a Blood DK in Legion, but only in normal mode, nothing too wild.
I chose to roll with a guardian druid this time, even with all the new covenant stuff making it complicated.
That’s how I ended up with my druid tank, Zueschoo. At first, I wanted to join a guild to do raids, but finding a spot as a tank is tough. There are only two tank spots, and if you kick one out, you might lose the other, which you can't afford to do.
So, I ended up joining PUGs—that’s short for pick-up groups—for raids.
Raiding with PUGs is hit or miss. Sometimes you get a good group, and you know you'll beat the boss in a few tries.
But then there are the groups that fall apart after one bad fight. People bail, and you spend ages waiting for replacements.
It's a mess, and the best way out is to just leave and find a new group.
You would be amazed how many familiar faces you see when trying to PUG kill one of the harder bosses for 10 hours straight.
Even with the chaos, I got through the Castle Nathria (CN) and Sanctum of Domination (SoD) raids on Heroic pretty fast, usually before even trying them on normal mode. I didn’t want to waste time on normal when I could be beating them on Heroic.
PS. One cool thing about not being in a guild is that you can just leave if people aren’t playing well... I joined some guild groups that thought they were hot shit... what happened to them ahh right 5/10 HC getting hard stuck on some bosses like Painsmith...(even after the nerf)
Most of my time was spent doing Mythic + which I loved. I met some cool Romanian players in a random PUG, and we started playing together, pushing high keys.
I managed to beat all +20 dungeons in the first season. Only about 2% of players pull that off.
The next season was tougher, but I cleared all the +20 dungeons again in the pre-patch.
Hit all +15s in the second week too. But after that, the game just wasn't giving me that thrill anymore.
I’d done the toughest challenges.
(besides Raiding Mythic for which you need a good guild)
With nothing left in WoW to beat and Blizzard going through changes, I just stopped. One day I'm all in, the next I’m done. That's how it goes. Now it's time to find something new to go all out on.
Some leftover Videos