WoW - Progression for a casual player

[Murf]

Hi guys, I've recently gotten back into WoW and I intend to spend the 2-3 nights I have to myself per week playing. My problem is my 2 main chars are both 70, and are equipped with blues from instances (60-70). They're both Karazhan attuned but I've only ever been in their once.

The question is, what is the best route of progression for a casual player? Am I going to have to grind to revered with every faction, and just hammer heroic instances for gear or are there casual guilds who will accept players who can only raid 1-2 times a week if they're not equipped with heroic instance items?

I really would like to see inside the new raids, hell, I'd like to see inside the old ones too, but I'm not sure if this is realistic and I really don't want to spend my spare nights grinding rep. I think the way they did that for heroic instances was absolutely appalling to be totally honest. Just a total con to avoid adding more real content.

 

[Washout]

stopped playing soon after expansion but used to be very hard to find a guild like that. Mine used to accept a limited number of casual players that were friends of raiders. Though regular players always got priority over casuals for epics regardless of dkp (think of it as currency for buying epics that you gain for doing raids and killing bosses).
Most would expect you to go to a minimum number of raids per week and you had to stay for the whole duration with only a few 10 minute breaks - could last 4+hrs (sometimes 6+!). Also you had to keep your char fully equipped with potions and dmg pots etc.

So the answer is some will but you may have to wait a while before you see those purples!

 

[DampCat]

Yes mate, there are plenty of casual guilds that just raid a couple of nights a week.

Also, some of the hardcore guilds run an Alt day or whatever, where they take their alts and social friend sinto the stuff theyve done 100 times. My guild is finishing SSC, but once a week we do Kara and Gruul etc for alts and friends.

Back in vanilla we took random players through Blackwing Lair and AQ too.

Just hover around some other servers, see who is doing what. you can always transfer.

 

[Murf]

Yes mate, there are plenty of casual guilds that just raid a couple of nights a week.

Also, some of the hardcore guilds run an Alt day or whatever, where they take their alts and social friend sinto the stuff theyve done 100 times. My guild is finishing SSC, but once a week we do Kara and Gruul etc for alts and friends.

Back in vanilla we took random players through Blackwing Lair and AQ too.

Just hover around some other servers, see who is doing what. you can always transfer.

Gonna have to look for a guild of this type then. I'm not committing to a guild that's gonna end up being a second job. I don't care about being on the bleeding edge of content. 6 months behind is fine. As long as I get to see Karazhan, Gruul etc eventually, and even Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. Heck, I'd love to just do Blackwing Lair and get my tier 2. Considering my main is a paladin and Tier 2 is the best looking set in the game that'd be ace!

I really can't be doing with grinding rep, then farming for gold to buy pots\flasks, to spend 6 hours wiping. Ideally I want to do the interesting content when it's still a challenge, but not a big one.

 

[Drukk]

Yes mate, there are plenty of casual guilds that just raid a couple of nights a week.

Also, some of the hardcore guilds run an Alt day or whatever, where they take their alts and social friend sinto the stuff theyve done 100 times. My guild is finishing SSC, but once a week we do Kara and Gruul etc for alts and friends.

Back in vanilla we took random players through Blackwing Lair and AQ too.

Just hover around some other servers, see who is doing what. you can always transfer.

This is probably your best chance, try and get into a guild that has progressed to SSC and farmed kara to death. They normally then open up places like gruul and kara for alts and socials. Some still use dkp while others just roll for drops from social raids.

Also, try and get an arena team going. You only have to do 10 games a week to get arena points and that leads to some of the best gear in the game. Granted, a lot is more pvp based but the weapons are better than any pve drops your gonna get right now.

 

[Edinho]

Good luck.

But I think you'll find it difficult. Casual guilds doing the high level content just do not exist imo. Yes there will be someone who will come back here and say im talking ********, but 18 months playing the game (i quit before tbc)I've never seen a guild doing this, or at least lasting long enough to do it.

WOW at level cap is all about guilds.

 

[Murf]

Good luck.

But I think you'll find it difficult. Casual guilds doing the high level content just do not exist imo. Yes there will be someone who will come back here and say im talking ********, but 18 months playing the game (i quit before tbc)I've never seen a guild doing this, or at least lasting long enough to do it.

WOW at level cap is all about guilds.

I know. I'm just frustrated that without putting in silly time I'll never get to see the really good content like MC\BWL\Naxx\Kara\Gruul etc.

The raids I've completed are Onyxia and UBRS if you can call it that. That's it. It's pretty poor for someone who has 30 days play time on his main, 22 on his alt etc.

I joined a guild two days ago however and raided Kara last night. They seem to go on a nightly basis and do the invites in guild chat half an hour before, no reserved slots which is good. Didn't even take down the maiden mind which was shocking.

 

[DampCat]

Sounds like you've got it sorted mate. I doubt you will see MC or BWL now though.

Lots of people form PUG raids on those though so keep an eye out. There's always something to kill.

 

[Vixen]

Good luck.

But I think you'll find it difficult. Casual guilds doing the high level content just do not exist imo. Yes there will be someone who will come back here and say im talking ********, but 18 months playing the game (i quit before tbc)I've never seen a guild doing this, or at least lasting long enough to do it.

WOW at level cap is all about guilds.

You're talking complete rubbish. I've been playing the game since release, and I've been in casual guilds the whole time.

Casual guilds exist, but they will always take longer to progress. My current guild raids once or twice a week (Kara on Wednesdays, sometimes another day people are on if we haven't cleared and have enough). We are clearing Kara up to Prince, unfortunately the only guy who could summon netherspite, our main tank, transferred without telling us, so we can't do him at the moment .

In my experience, servers seem to either be full of casual guilds or full of hardcore ones. My server, Jaedenar, hasn't progressed amazingly far, but it's getting there. We have a lot of guilds who only raid a couple of days a week .

 

[Matmulder]

As above, quite a few casual Guilds, was in one pre-BC and in a new one now BC is around as I can only raid myself 1-2 nights a week.

But as mentioned, its very slow progress.


I will say though, I find raids *incredibly* boring. 5-man instances with friends are a laugh, but 10-25man runs take a lot more organisation and people (ie, Hardcore players) get so serious about it that it sometimes feels more like a job than anything, with the 'boss' barking orders over TS.

I do think I'm too much of a casual gamer for stuff like end-game-WoW.

 

[colinuk]

I only play for an hour in the week days, B&B wireless is a bit crap. And at the weekends for about 3-4 hours. Guild im in seem fine about it, they have a lot of 'adult' players and we all work in the day. Raid 3-4 times a week, just post if you want a spot. Help alts and newbies through instancies qwhen they ask and dont use a DKP system or sell to each other.

If your on dagger spine server give us a shout and ill get the guild leader to send you an invite.

Colin

 

[Vixen]

As above, quite a few casual Guilds, was in one pre-BC and in a new one now BC is around as I can only raid myself 1-2 nights a week.

But as mentioned, its very slow progress.


I will say though, I find raids *incredibly* boring. 5-man instances with friends are a laugh, but 10-25man runs take a lot more organisation and people (ie, Hardcore players) get so serious about it that it sometimes feels more like a job than anything, with the 'boss' barking orders over TS.

I do think I'm too much of a casual gamer for stuff like end-game-WoW.

My guild isn't like that at all. We all focus when killing stuff, but we don't even use vent or TS, and no-one gets barked it. It's a great atmosphere and we just play to have fun.

 

[Edinho]

We are clearing Kara up to Prince, unfortunately the only guy who could summon netherspite, our main tank, transferred without telling us, so we can't do him at the moment .

There you go. Got it in one. But then, of course, im talking rubbish.

 

[Vixen]

There you go. Got it in one. But then, of course, im talking rubbish.

What exactly do you have in one? The fact that we've only bothered to get one guy to summon Netherspite? Or the fact that our main tank was a jerk who decided to switch to a server he had RL friends on?

 

[Xinn]

You don't summon Netherspite, that would be Nightbane, but anyways

Or the fact that our main tank was a jerk who decided to switch to a server he had RL friends on?

That wouldn't make him a jerk, not telling you would, but wanting to play with friends, no.

 

[Vixen]

You don't summon Netherspite, that would be Nightbane, but anyways



That wouldn't make him a jerk, not telling you would, but wanting to play with friends, no.

Nightbane, yeah you're right. I've not done Kara much yet as I only joined recently, so I still don't get the names right .

I didn't say that him being a jerk and transferring to be with friends were directly related .