Last night I did something that, for me, was unthinkable a year ago. I joined a random group to do a “serious” raid. The main intent was to complete the weekly raid quest and down one boss, in effect not so different from pugging Vault of Archevon, except that this was for the Ice Crown Citadel, a raid that in my opinion is non-trivial.
It went surprisingly well, we one shotted the first bosses (completing the quest), two shotted the next two bosses and made two attempts on the last boss, getting him down to 45% on our second try. I’m pretty sure that the first boss has been “nerfed” since the only other time I’ve seen him.
That we managed to get so far with just a collection of random players (no gearscore or achievement criteria) says something about the success of Blizzards “purchasable” epics. Or maybe it was an unusually good group, I’ve only the one experience to go on.
I quite enjoyed myself, but thinking back, I could have been playing solo with a bunch of AI “helpers”. Socially it was an empty experience with a complete lack of human interaction, just like pugging running random dungeons nowadays where it’s moderately unusual for anything to be said in chat at all.
So where does that leave me?
On the one hand I got to get my Raid fix, on the other hand I can see pugging whole-evening raids like this getting tired pretty quick. If I want to solo maybe I should hop on my Wii.
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Gear wise I got a useless Enhancement shaman drop, typical since I’ve just respecced Elemental. I also ran a Random Heroic immediately afterwards and got myself a pair of [Mudslide Boots] so I don’t really know where to go from here gear wise.
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