I watched a video from Bellular this afternoon, and he said something that was both true and upsetting(to me).
\nSomeone asked “Do you feel that WoD is friendly to people that aren’t in a Raid Guild?”.. aka, me(with my fake Guild.. which will play out later in this post). His answer is basically praising Guilds over going solo, how you’ll have the help you’ll need and stuff. “if you want to see all the content the expansion has to offer, get in a Guild. Otherwise your playthough of WoD will be ‘lackluster'”
\nAgain, he’s right. He also said that doing content, you just have to “be willing to actively find a PuG.” In other words, to stop bitching about there’s no content.
\nYet he also was all “You should really seek out a Guild” really depressed me. I’ve been guildless since late Vanilla.<\/p>\n
But I tried to not let that stop me, as a made my first dungeon run request in the Pre-Made Group feature to do the Bloodmaul Slag Mines. While I was waiting and also feeling that depression of what I watched, I decided to just try to relax and do some fishing while grabbing the fishing daily from my Garrison. This had me go to Talador.
\nSo I fished up the required fish, tried to cut them open and I only got 9\/10 eggs. Was about to fish again, then suddenly my LFP(Looking for PuG) thing alerted me of players interested.
\nIt was a group of… three people. No tank. Just a Healer and DPS. At first I was hesitant, but then spoke up and asked “Party for Bloodmaul?” They seemed nice, yet I also noticed I was PvP flagged, even mentioned it. I said this several times, but they didn’t really seem to care.
\nIt took awhile until I finally manned up and headed toward Frostfire Ridge, where Bloodmaul Slag Mines is (yet I kept on “why am I flagged?! ARGH!!” to myself). Having not ever been there since WoD went live(aka the zone was completely undiscovered), I made a lot of mistakes. I also had to hide from a Level 95 flagged Horde that thankfully never noticed me.
\nAfter awhile, I finally reached the dungeon entrance.<\/p>\n
Yet not everyone was there. The Druid DPS and the Healer were a bit North of me. Told them I was here. One of the DPSers showed up near me, followed by the Healer. Then that same DPSer got bored and attacked a Level 100 mob, who wasn’t too happy and bitch slapped him. He ran into the dungeon.
\nI killed the mob(though I still had my fishing pole instead of my bow out) and then ran in too.
\nSo we’re waiting for the Druid, who came about three minutes after we ran in, and got right to work. My LFP was still active, occasionally telling me another DPS wants to join. Really need a Tank. Though about.. 10 or so minutes in, I finally got one and invited him… who was in Ashran. So we had to summon him. Got that done after a few failed attempts.<\/p>\n
Did Bloodmaul Slag Mines no problem. Though I say the first boss was probably the hardest due to having a lot of AoE attacks. Though from what I’ve learned from soloing, I was able to dodge most of them.
\nAnd… it’s completed! Did it in half an hour. They wanted to do another dungeon, though I said I only had a half an hour left before I gotta go, yet they too also had a half an hour. Then I had to figure out how to re-queue.
\nI told them I wanted to do dungeons by level, and they were saying “that’s fine, let’s just do it” yet I didn’t know how, so I gave control of the PuG to the tank.<\/p>\n
And we went to Skyreach! I’m like “…Oh god”, having also never done this one, yet my group was confident as can be that we can do this, so I went with it. We took down the bosses. Had only one wipe(the healer).
\nThe final boss was fun. It has this attack that summons a ‘Solar Flare’, which is a small phoenix. I constantly got it. And if you get hit, you of course take a lot of damage. So I ran around trying to keep the bird from running into me while attacking.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, the entire group dies due to lag… except for me<\/strong>! The boss has 20% health left, and I’m soloing this fucker! It spawns another Solar Flare. I run around, the group cheering me on.. and I kill it!! I just fucking solo’d the final boss in Skyreach! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n The group is cheering me on as I loot what there is. Overall I got no new gear, but there was a trinket I really, really needed. Yet for some reason, it said that my class cannot Need on it. Maybe I don’t<\/em> need it? I dunno. All I do<\/strong> know, is both stats were green. So yeah. That was FUN! \ud83d\ude00 I wanna do this some more. I feel confident now. Though not to do Heroics (need better gear for that anyway). I watched a video from Bellular this afternoon, and he said something that was both true and upsetting(to me). Someone asked “Do you feel that WoD is friendly to people that aren’t in a Raid Guild?”.. aka, me(with my fake … Continue reading
\nSo the Tank is all “You did so well, I want to invite you into our Guild!”.. I hesitated, and was about to question if they saw my Guild name, then he says “just kidding”, followed by “I like your Guild name”.<\/p>\n
\nI’m back in Frostfire Ridge. So now I can uncover the zone without being flagged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"