I sent the retired Wildshard to the Blizzard General Forum today. I wanted to hear about other active players anxious about entering dungeons and raids. Wildshard got a lot of crazy stuff, which is expected on an open forum like this. More surprising, though, were the many throughtful replies. Quite a few were similar to Tanis and Erik comments (when Erik decides to be serious).
The most telling was a player named Severuss. He told Wildshard that in 95% of the groups he was part of he could have gone afk for the whole run and no one would have noticed. That was probably exageration, but others on the forum said the similar things. When I mentioned that the gear score of my main character was i897, he laughed and said that score is absolute overkill for any pathfinder dungeon.
So, will Keya "be fine" heading into an LFR? I think Keya is soon going to find out. Is she ready to take the plunge and accept a random Legion dungeon? Afterall, she has to do this enough times to get the 15 soveriagn souls required to meet the criteria for "A Very Special Kind of Fuel."
Havoc Spec Expections: Let's take a leap of faith and state that Keya decides to take the plunge into a LFR (dungeon). Her main spec is Vengeance, which is a tanking spec. Keya, however, would be in the DPS role. That would be Havoc spec. Keya quickly found out that Havoc spec is very, very different from Vengeance.
Gotta start somewhere. Starting slow on the Broken Shores, she waded into the felstalkers that are always hanging around and had no problem killing them. She was not comfortable with the spell rotations at all, however. Hoping to gain some better control with a tougher target, Keya went after the elite in the same area. As Vengeance, Keya has killed that demon dozens of times. In Havoc spec, she only escaped death by leaping into the water and swimming away. Very embarrassing. And she just didn't like the way Havoc worked.
If Keya is going to get into an LFR, it will have to be in Vengeance spec. Night falls. Keya finishes all of her chores. There are no quests to follow up on. The Rift Cannon has been covered. Sista has bedded down in The Dreamgrove for the night. Chaitee is counting coins.
Keya taps the Group Finder. Just fooling around. It asks if she wants a random Legion Heroic. No. Keya changed it to random Legion dungeon. She watched the Group Finder. She tried not watching it. Bed would be good. Yet she still stood on the same spot where she opened the Group Finder.
Then the well known sound of a dungeon coming to life sounded around her. Accept or Reject? If she goes, will she be accepted as a DPS in tank gear? What the hell, Keya accepted.
Keya didn't know where she was at first. She was focused on seeing what kind of "Legion" dungeon she would face. Would she be accepted into the group? Does she have the faintest idea what she'll have to do? Two players who didn't like the dungeon they wound up in left. The other three of us stuck around, killing minor elites and hoping. Keya was so focused on trying to look like she knew what she was doing, she didn't see that she already knew the place. Wildshard was suddenly channeling Keya - and Keya realized she was in the Violet Hold. Upgraded, of course, to Legion level and now called Assault on Violet Hold: Purple Pain.
Violet Hold is perhaps the most played dungeon in all of Azeroth. It's been years, but it all came back, just like that. We got our five players, including a healer. No one noticed or cared that Keya was in Vengeance gear. She had signed up as melee DPS, and that is what she is. No more worrying about that.
Nobody died, and everyone had fun, even Keya - or at least got done what they needed to get done, and we finished the run. Violet Hold has always been a confidence maker, and it shined again tonight. Keya also should have received acknowledgement for completing the first of 15 dungeon runs she'll need. Keya took stock after the run finished. Officially the group had a tank, healer, and three DPS, but Recount only shows the two "official" DPS. What I can state is that Keya did 38% of all damage, vs 28% from the other DPS. Charred Warblades did the most damage (67%). Our healer was very good and Keya's health never went below 90%.
The Violet Hold is almost home for aging Wildshard, the batan now passed to Keya. Kinda puts a hitch in the throat.
PS - It is with considerable irony that the above was meant to follow the "Death of Solo Progression" post. Amazing how things can turn completely around. Keya is far from out of the woods, but there has certainly been a breakthru. The "Death of Solo Progression" was never released.
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