I don’t think I have ever heard of “light heroic raiding” unless you consider an alt run from a guild that completed it a while ago. You will not have fun trying to get pugs so your best bet is either a chill community that does M+ or a guild that does raiding as a side activity rather than the main thing.
Light as in players not being super sweaty pretending they are competing in world first races. A more laid back attitude compared to people who wanna rush, mega min/max and sim/parse everything
I dont feel stress when playing wow. I usually listen to an audio book and chill and do what i like.
Today ive done the daily quests for molten front, the dailies for champion seals,the daylies for the wolf faction in sholari basing - switched over 10 days ago.
Farmed sunwell for some 0.004 % drop rate patern. Killed the last boss in black temple, black wing decent and the opera boss in kara for the three missing music sheets to my garnison. Farmed some rare in the maw which i havent killed before.
Did 2 hc dungeons in DF for quests
Mined 500 mines in DF to get some knowledge
And off course some rl chores too.
Relaxing and fun day
This is why they removed so many WQs, some people for some reason cannot handle it.
I just think the game has lost the ability to appeal to the players who are neither super casual nor super tryhard. Like I wanna be able to participate in some mid level m+ and some normal raids and potentially dabble in heroic if I could find a guild with a more laid back attitude towards towards raiding.
But it feels like there is no middle ground, youre either mega casual and never participate in any group content at all or if you wanna participate you need to make it your full time job. There feels like you have no option to just exist in the middleground
Hmm i wouldt know…i did the full raid model back when molten core and bwl was the hardest raids. Took hours to complete
I think i did sunwell too but i them decided that the style of playing was not me.
Felt like a chore so i opted out of my raiding guild , switched servers and never looked back.
I enjoy the game so much more now. Im prob what some would consider super cadual but it works for me…
Maybe you should try to find a place where you fit in? Create alts on different servers and go find out if theres a guild for you somewhere?
Same same. Finishing up all the work and IRL stuff.
It’s usually really really busy before the holidays. So I’ll be starting late and taking it slow. I don’t M+ Or raid so I have nothing to worry about.
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It depend how long will be 1st Season. If it will be only few weeks…u can panic. But no one knows.
didnt buy it.
i feel great.
been playing other games instead.
Warhammer: darktide
right now, having more fun with that than i have with wow in the last 2 expansions “bfa/SL”
first game i have played in about 7 months, its been a while since i played anything at all.
over 100 hours played on it so far… in 3 weeks lol…
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Reallly? Whenever I look on guild finder there are no end of casual guilds that raid.
I never stress, anxiety and stress is pointless
Uhm, not play it or set a different goal for yourself
I don’t stress about it at all. In fact, I played for a week or so at launch, enjoyed my time in the game. As of now, I’ve not logged in for about a week - I’ll likely play some more soon.
It’s a game. It’s not supposed to be something that causes ‘stress’. If playing this (or any game) is genuinely causing a person stress, there is something seriously wrong in that person’s life (IMO).
There is definitely a middle ground. You just need to look for a guild or community, you won’t find it pugging.
If an activity or interaction ingame causes me stress, I avoid it. That’s why I am a solo player and I don’t do dungeons anymore. I am not missing anything by not doing them, if I need the achievements I can solo them in the next expansions.
Long ago I had an awesome guild, but gradually the people stopped playing. Finding new friends these days is difficult, as I am not that young anymore and can’t meet the skill/playing tempo requirements. I was also unlucky with communities, always some drama or bad apples, or it goes inactive very fast. Got tired of this too. So now I happily do my own things in game.
Sitting in one’s own little bubble is not a bad thing at all.
Behind whom? Do you really care what other people do in the game? What would be the point to even think about this? If they want to rush, fine. They are rushing out there somewhere and you shouldn’t care at all about this.
I generally move away from stuff that stresses me. Once there is no longer enough content that doesnt stress or annoy me, I quit. I recommend that. There is no reason to play a game that causes you stress.
if you don’t rush with them, you are hindering >their< progress and because of that you must adapt to their play style and mentality. if you don’t, expect to play WoW single-player mode wandering around as a orc peon who was banished from orgrimar for wanting to take in the scenery of the new ulduman.
For the most part I just mentally ignore what other people are doing or what they have etc. I play the game for me so why should I care if someone has better gear, higher renown or whatever. I also accept the fact that if I don’t play every day I will be “behind”. It is fine, I’d rather enjoy playing other games from time to time or spending time with my loved ones or just watching movies instead of pushing myself to play WoW if I don’t actually feel like playing it.
Partly through design. The infinite AP grind was very wearing.
Fortunately… that’s not very true with Dragonflight. Yes, you CAN spent a lot of time grinding renown, and some people have; but it’s stuff like 389 gear and recipes that aren’t massively important if you’ve got an eye on higher M+ or raiding later in the season. Only reason to worry about being behind is if you’re part of a serious endgame guild that has set ilvl expectations for a specific date - and even then, you’d be better running lots of M+ than you would be doing the open world grind.
It’ll take time for the community as a whole to come down off the old ways however, I think many are still looking for the mandatory chores and feeling like they’re missing something 
I lose my mind, cos i play wow to relieve stress not to guess stress, and right now i am getting system freezes gpu driver crashes as reported by least 18+ different user reports all on full AMD systems, so if you have this issue as well it would do me a huge favour if you reported the problem both on forums and in AMD own bug report tool if you have AMD gpu.