M+ becomes miserable as soon as you start playing it for specific items, or for pushing your score a bit higher when you’re close to 20s.
This is where “run your key” breaks down completely unless you want to play 40 hours a week. For example, I don’t think I’ve gotten a single Fall key this whole season, and my highest for Fall is 15 while others are around 20-21.
My option is to either keep running my keys until I hopefully get Fall, which doesn’t seem to be happening, or keep applying for the ones I need that’s an endless exercise in frustration.
Because of the way GV is designed and my limited play time, I don’t want to do keys below 18 because I usually do just 4 a week for 2 slots, and with 2.3k score and 476 ilvl on a meta DH, I’m never getting an invite to Fall 18 because 486 DHs with 3.3k score are applying for it to farm the weapon. I can either run my own keys that I don’t need for score or any particular items, or I can keep applying for hours which is the most miserable experience you can have in WoW. You’re never getting invited on an off meta spec, and you’re not getting invited as meta either because a much higher geared meta chat with a higher score is already in the queue.
Why not let us swap a key to a desired one once day, or even twice a week, just to avoid this pointless loop? Farming for specific items is already atrocious with people doing 50 runs to get a drop, so having your own key for the dungeon isn’t gonna make the process significantly better anyway.
TLDR: run your key only works if you don’t care which key you’re running.
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Just say something like this to litterally any one in the service chat.
“Hey i need a +20 Fall key, Could you set that up for me ?”
Like… Why go through all this struggle ?
I left that channel the second it was added, isn’t it entirely used for boosting?
Yes.
Just buy a boost for your Fall key.
Quick, easy and cheap
Don’t even think a +20 costs over 300k any more
No I’m not buying boosts, that’s the degeneracy that made the game into a gold buying, bot infested clownfest that it is.
This part of M+ progression is what causes me to unsub every season which is gonna happen this time as well, but I’d still rather delete my character than pay a booster.
It’s not just about me though, endlessly applying to keys is the lowest point of the game and the only way to resolve it is by giving people more agency with their own keys.
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Do the other dungeons, increase your score and you get insta invite. 2.3k for a +20 it’s very unlikely to get an invite.
Just said you could be over and done with “This problem” in like an hr.
Yes because the other people applying have overgeared and overscored the dungeon by spamming keys for months now. I’m talking about a +18 not a 20, even 18 is impossible when the competition is all out for the same bis weapon.
I’m not complaining about that tho, that’s normal and I would also rather invite a higher gear/higher score character, all I want is for my own key to not be subject to 100% RNG.
DH is meta, they always get an invite mate… but 2.3k is low for a 20. KSH you get it by doing everything at +18… meaning you’re not even trying…
Are you reading a word I’m saying? I’m trying to get into 18s not 20s for Fall, and I will have KSH as soon as that’s done because the other keys are all around 20-21.
The problem is personal key RNG not this specific instance, for all 3 seasons I’ve been falling into loops of getting the same 4-5 keys on repeat, while I go for weeks without seeing a particular one.
Do you think I have easy access to keys because I’m playing Aug? No, I worked hard to get my score. I have to apply a lot to get an invited in pugs.
Using the community No Pressure (NoP) in three weeks (I created it before Christmas) I raised my score and keep doing it. Now I’m at a level I can get some invites from pugs because at this level very little keys in the community.
And I work 8 hours a day Monday to Friday, only time in the evening to play.
And before 3 weeks time I was using this and as you can see I could easily time some keys…
Hasn’t boosting been in the game since classic? Like it didn’t start with the WOW Token.
Not really, you can make it worse by giving everyone whatever keys they want.
In your case, not only will you not get invited into keys, but also WHEN you have the keys you want, you won’t be able to find a group for the dungeon.
Because everyone will have the choice to reroll the keys they have to the “desired” dungeon, then you return to only your gear and rio mattering. Which will remove any reason for players to want to group up with you (or anyone else who is “behind the curve”).
Due to IRL issues I am late into the season and still have to farm gear.
I have 465 Ilvl now on one of the worst specs in M+ atm (I play ele-shaman)
I have no issues finding keys running mostly 17-18 right now. I am close to 2,5k score only doing pugs.
If I can find keys… everyone can.
Does it take longer to get into them than playing as my tank or when ele was better in SL? Yes… but I still get invited quite fast. (Around 5 mins)
Dear God, I wish they’d ban people whose solution to everything is to propose buying a boost.
And why don’t you just craft a weapon OP? The on use isn’t that stellar.
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It’s easier if you play with the same people regularly. Friends, a community, a guild. Just more keys to choose from.
I’d love to be able to pick my dungeons too, but I doubt this will happen. It would shorten the grind and people would be done with a season sooner. Social networking will probably get you better results than the PUG life and you’ll waste less time.
Or do what everyone else does and work yourself up there… you have 4 dungeons not done at all.
Multiple dungeons only done at 15-17 ect.
Start doing the ones you’re missing at a level where you get an invite no problem, and work up from there.