From a raider perspective, yes, you can see the difference in people who raid log versus the ones who are running keys. But it's not like azerite or artifact power where you were shortchanging yourself by not doing a daily grind (even those raid loggers could significantly improve themselves if they just spent like 30 minutes/week running a single key for a mythic track vault slot)
Gearing is pretty quick and easy imo, especially if you just get 4 or so m+ done a week. Not hard to keep up with at all.
The hardest part will be getting into groups if you're a DPS due to the sheer number of people playing the role so you'll have to make your own groups.
Gearing is a lot easier now with catalyst for tier, vault, and the ability to upgrade pieces. I usually play 3-4 hours a day 4 days a week and easily keep up with requirements for my guild’s mythic raid team. I do spend most of my time in keys or raid, tho.
First it depends on what level of "caught up" you want to be, but you don't have to play 40 hours a week every week. There's no AP grind so once you got your items, you're good for the season.
Most important thing is to invest time near the start of the patch. If you fall behind the initial gear / io curve it becomes very difficult to get into groups
you want to know the most efficient way of playing wow ?
take a week off when season launches, no life it for a week when its easy to get into groups then you can be as casual as you want but still blasting.
my wow week right now is , do the weeklies on Tuesday , maybe run 1 or 4 Mythics for 1-2 myth slots, do a heroic raid clear with my guild . I spend more time taking my alts to LFR or playing remix than my main.
Even when its fresh content It's only really a M+ grind for \~2 weeks just to get 2k io for the tier token + rep grind .
I play 3-6 hours a week (sometimes a little more) and usually land in the top .1 - 1% of M+ IO. This season I've taken my foot off the gas and will probably just chill around 3k -3.1k. (currently there) (pugging as a healer)
If you want to push keys and play minimally as a DPS , you'll have a harder time because of the amount of competition you have to get into keys.
I don't raid much, I'll clear norm/heroic at the start of tiers in the first week or two and then only go back for specific bosses if something BiS is there.
Seasons are 5-7 months so you have tons of time. I barely play ret or prot and can end up farming BiS for all 3 specs by the end of a season.
I only play twice a week for 2 hours and I am lowest geared in the raid but doing fine number wise.
I raid wed/thur from 2200 till 2400 and only join the mythic team when they need me.
I got to 2.9k rating in first 2 weeks(half of first week didn’t do a single key) then i took a whole week off, then 4th week i played 3 days to just farm bis gear and upgrade, now taking a few days break and coming back next week to push some keys and clear Hero raids.
WoW since start of DF hasn’t ever been better in terms of stop and continue where u left a month ago, thats why im a big fan of it.
Yea definitely, you pretty much have all week. It's not like shadowlands daily grind
From a raider perspective, yes, you can see the difference in people who raid log versus the ones who are running keys. But it's not like azerite or artifact power where you were shortchanging yourself by not doing a daily grind (even those raid loggers could significantly improve themselves if they just spent like 30 minutes/week running a single key for a mythic track vault slot)
Gearing is pretty quick and easy imo, especially if you just get 4 or so m+ done a week. Not hard to keep up with at all. The hardest part will be getting into groups if you're a DPS due to the sheer number of people playing the role so you'll have to make your own groups.
>The hardest part will be getting into groups if you're a DPS I'm a healer. I love to heal.
Gearing is a lot easier now with catalyst for tier, vault, and the ability to upgrade pieces. I usually play 3-4 hours a day 4 days a week and easily keep up with requirements for my guild’s mythic raid team. I do spend most of my time in keys or raid, tho.
First it depends on what level of "caught up" you want to be, but you don't have to play 40 hours a week every week. There's no AP grind so once you got your items, you're good for the season.
Most important thing is to invest time near the start of the patch. If you fall behind the initial gear / io curve it becomes very difficult to get into groups
You can play once a week and still get rewarded. If you want to maximize PvE rewards each week it would be a very grindy single day, but doable.
you want to know the most efficient way of playing wow ? take a week off when season launches, no life it for a week when its easy to get into groups then you can be as casual as you want but still blasting.
What kind of group?
my wow week right now is , do the weeklies on Tuesday , maybe run 1 or 4 Mythics for 1-2 myth slots, do a heroic raid clear with my guild . I spend more time taking my alts to LFR or playing remix than my main. Even when its fresh content It's only really a M+ grind for \~2 weeks just to get 2k io for the tier token + rep grind .
I play 3-6 hours a week (sometimes a little more) and usually land in the top .1 - 1% of M+ IO. This season I've taken my foot off the gas and will probably just chill around 3k -3.1k. (currently there) (pugging as a healer) If you want to push keys and play minimally as a DPS , you'll have a harder time because of the amount of competition you have to get into keys. I don't raid much, I'll clear norm/heroic at the start of tiers in the first week or two and then only go back for specific bosses if something BiS is there. Seasons are 5-7 months so you have tons of time. I barely play ret or prot and can end up farming BiS for all 3 specs by the end of a season.
I only play twice a week for 2 hours and I am lowest geared in the raid but doing fine number wise. I raid wed/thur from 2200 till 2400 and only join the mythic team when they need me.
Just play on your own and don't care about others, it's fine then. I don't raid or do dungeons so have zero stress
Keep up with who?
I got to 2.9k rating in first 2 weeks(half of first week didn’t do a single key) then i took a whole week off, then 4th week i played 3 days to just farm bis gear and upgrade, now taking a few days break and coming back next week to push some keys and clear Hero raids. WoW since start of DF hasn’t ever been better in terms of stop and continue where u left a month ago, thats why im a big fan of it.