Quick Catch Up...

Hello,


Been a while... again...


Much has changed since I last posted.


We killed Mythic G'Huun, it took far longer than it should have done but we got there in the end.
It was a constant stream of individual errors and poor, blinkered play that dragged it out for us.  Each error is punished to the max and two early in an attempt meant a wipe, as did any error by the orb-runners.


This meant progress was always stop-start.  It didn't flow like it normally does where, once you have mastered a phase, you rarely fail there again so our attempts in P3 were disjointed and rarely consecutive.


This was trotted out as an excuse for failure in P3 but I disagreed.
P3 on Mythic is very similar to P3 on Heroic, there is a little dance that flows nicely and repeats over and over through the phase.
It had been quite a while since we did it on Heroic (and the loot was crap so it wasn't one of those bosses you went back to over and over again) but, to me, it was Raiding 101: Don't Stand in the Fire!


Anyway, the errors in P1 and P2 never really went away and it took me a long time to get through to everyone that P3 was about survival rather than dps but we eventually got there and G'Huun died with a couple of weeks to spare.


Any enthusiasm I had for the game had completely gone by this point and I stepped down as both Raider and Raid Leader. 
I attempted to step down as Officer too but was convinced to stay on, even though I wouldn't be particularly active in the guild.


I moved my Shaman back to join some old friends who I was raiding with back when I started this blog.  The pace would be slower, more relaxed, and the requirement to do everything outside raiding wouldn't be there either.
I could go back to playing at my own pace, particularly important at this time when I wasn't enjoying the non-raid content.


It's not really working out as well as I had hoped, the grass isn't always greener...
I'm frustrated playing at the lower level, not by people playing poorly or anything, but by the almost complete lack of direction, organisation and planning.


On the plus side (no pun intended), I've really enjoyed doing Mythic+ dungeons with people on a similar level to me. 
I always felt behind the curve in the other guild, with people who are in specialist key-pushing teams essentially 'carrying' me through my weekly.  I didn't like that feeling at all!


Now I am actually learning the dungeons, the routes, the dangerous packs etc. for the first time since our foray into Challenge Modes back in WoD... same guild, same people... coincidence?


Haven't thought about those C-Mode runs in a while, looking back it was so much fun trying to work them out (with Darkmech's help) then execute our pulls perfectly. 
Restarting and practicing over and over, the challenge was perfectly balanced in my opinion and no gear rewards in sight (and all the better for it)!


Is it possible to have the best of both worlds?
The raiding experience of one guild and the dungeon experience of another?
I'm not sure. 
The Mythic guild runs plenty of M+ but they are pretty much a requirement to obtain the appropriate gear for the raids... it's not the lack of runs that is the issue, it is my own place in them. 
The fault lies with me for being behind the necessary experience level to complete these runs without feeling out of place.


I'm now gaining that experience but I needed to go through this process at the start of the expansion.


The thoughts that have been swirling round my mind are beginning to make more sense now I have put them down on 'paper', the path forward is becoming clearer...