Sounds like those parses have accurately identified you lack experience and gear, so therefore wont perform at the level they expect.
I’d recommend joining a guild. Most pug are very demanding because 90% of the time taking a risk on a new/bad player means they wipe and the raid folds. You would contribute to this in a pug.
in a guild there is more patience and experience to help make up for your lack of it - which you will learn to overcome with time.
I run semi-guild pugs exclusively on my tank and i can perhaps explain why parses are valuable for this.
The thing with pugs is that for the most part the people that run with you one week are not gonna be there the next week. Either they have a guild and missed the run that week, or they’re not playing that much to begin with, or they found a guild or whatever… This was not an issue in P1 because the fights are not particularly punishing and the mechanics themselves are very simple. With Ulduar it is a problem because if you don’t check for previous experience you’re just running charity case training sessions for new noobs every week.
Pushing 25man HMs with pugs can decrease pug player retention even more because even on week 3-4, a substantial amount of pug players still struggle with mechanics, haven’t even bothered to learn the fights, or simply are bad at playing their class. This leads to the pug not getting most HMs with a lot of wipes along the way as that goal is still attempted… This will be a negative experience for the good players in the group who then might find themselves wanting to be in a different group next week.
Of couse during the early weeks of a phase we don’t look at the new content parses but at previous phase parses to try and get an idea if the player has been competitive and is seeking to improve. The individual boss graphs are quite nice for this because you can spot decent players even if they didn’t go hard in the beginning of a phase.
So you have 1 naxx parse and 1 ulduar parse… and most of your numbers are in the gray. This is something you only see when it’s like… a tank caressing Razuvious adds in an Immortal attempt or kiting Gluth zombies. When I read your OP, I figured you had like early greenish Ulduar parses and decent Naxx ones, but like why would anyone invite you to a raid when you don’t understand your class and and are gonna be a burden on everyone else. Just learn your class & rotation properly, eat the right food, bring flasks and potions and I’m sure you can parse just fine. Or find a casual guild that doesn’t care. Why complain about it on the forums when your performance is so sub-par.
I rerolled my class from rogue to warlock, had half pvp gear because you don’t even get invited to hc’s without GS (another fantastic invention), but I’m not a burden anymore. Do you think we could’ve killed XT HM(10) if my dps sucked that bad?
Thats only partially right. Right gear makes enormous difference. Shadow priest here. Just got my T8 4set bonus. Tested this on target dummy. With emblem pants (so no set bonus) barely pulling 4k dps. Swapping to tier pants, same ilvl according to how parses work, but now i can do 4.6k+ dps easely.
Pugs give zero effs about how have you been improving - chances are they’ll see you one day and they won’t remember you the next time you see them again ? I for one can barely remember what I had for breakfast.
And blaming others for failure will always be paramount for a top drawer application - it’s not you, it’s them.
I record my own runs and go back to watch all the times I messed up - a website with the math done is extra information on what I did, given the circumstances. But you’ll always find people that hammer down screws; it does work as a temporary measure, so all you can do is make sure you do as much as possible to keep your finger safe.
And ydgaf, because other wise you wouldn’t have open with that in the first place - except you were expecting a completely different answer.
I tell you what would think is good guild material : posting about the subject from a different angle. “Guys and gals, this are my parses, this is my key, I am back for 2 weeks and want to get into raids but having a bit of trouble - I’m missing my next obvious move so please halp.” – I can guarantee you the replies would have come in a completely different light.
I wish you the best finding a guild that would carry you through content, or take you for what you are. With that attitude, I am sure you’re gonna get far, best of lucks.
No wonder they don’t want to take you. Grey parses and you are not even hit capped. For demo you need a lot of hit, you are also stacked with crit but you need to stack haste first. Don’t equip every item just because it makes your gearscore bigger.
People should stop obsessing in pugs so much. I know it’s harsh, but you better find some guild or make baby steps with gearing. Feels like you try to make a big jump.
Hm, comming into Ulduar I had 0 experience on it, never seen a single fight.
So I went to youtube, found a video where every fight is explained in 30s shorts, looked at what bosses do.
Then on Sunday 7ST, I went to LFG tool and listed myself for a 25man raid, someone invited me and I went to that raid. In 3hours we cleared up to Freya, I also did 10man up to Mimirion that week.
2nd week came, I’ve found another 25man which killed bosses up to Mimirion, and 10 man which reached Vezax (but didn’t kill it).
And now on 3rd week I’ve found 2day 25m pug and we killed Yogg, I got my curve and I have full raid normal exp. Next steps are slowly going into HM’s
I started Ulduar patch with 4.1k gs, now I am close to 4.6k gs. I guess being Demo lock helps, since ranged dps can find group easier than mdps.
And even in the 2day 25man I participated - we tried most of HM at least 2-3times, we didn’t kill any, but I feel I got a lot of good experience out of these, and in the future I can contribute much more efficiently, when groups I pug with tries them.
So y, just progress with your level groups, don’t even try without having exp joining full HM runs. Just join some more casual semi-guild pugs that will clear 9-10 bosses, and work from there upwards.
My parses atm range from 25 to 75, but these massively depend how my group performs - how fast they kill the bosses, because faster you kill - better dps parse you will get (your initial damage from opening burst will have higher weight, vs a fight where you have 2extra minutes of filler spell spamming without CDs/pots).
My worst parses are on bosses, where half of the group was dead on kill, but we still managed to scrap it. And ofc my best 75 parses are on clean kills.
Demo parses depend on your build and are pretty heavy on rng(and how well you deal with it obviously), for most fights since you’re a pure hardcaster, who has to get into melee to do their best damage.
Can’t say much on pugs since i avoid them like the plague, but yeah.
If you want to improve it’s done on your own time with research, optimisation and practice. Optimising your gear is important (that means meeting hit caps without massively overshooting, prioritising stronger stats, proper enchants on all your items, not obsessing over ilvl/gs).
Then it’s about optimising your gameplay. Are you comfortable with your keybinds? Can you play while moving? Do you have to tunnel vision to dps fully? If so, is that because your UI is not efficient for your eyes/brain to work with? Have you changed your UI and found your performance went down? That may happen, but muscle memory needs to be re-written and if logically something is better, often cases it will be with time.
Have you checked video gameplay of other people playing your class on the bosses? Have you paid attention to how they position, how they move without losing dps, how and when they use their cooldowns. Have you recorded yourself playing to see where you’re missing out. Do all these things and write down notes, CD timings for each boss, positioning specifics, anything to help you. Have those notes at hand during the raid.
Like playing well is mostly about if you’re pressing your buttons in the right order and on cooldown, while not using so much brain power that you’re blind to the game around you, if those things are in place parsing is mostly a formality.
It’s not just a WoW thing, it’s a general thing. Humanity as a whole has changed A LOT in the last 20 years. People are much more toxic for example lol. Especially online.
You’re the one missing the mark here. But if you can’t understand basic character stats and missing on spell hit, I wouldn’t expect you to go as far as understanding basic English. Wouldn’t expect you to be playing any other class, and at least on that you didn’t disappoint.
Are you really pulling the “you play X class therefore you are stupid” card? I picked warlock for pvp, and hated rogue for the same reason.
It’s pretty hard to understand basic character stats in wotlk because the ui tells you nothing. It says nothing about how much hit you need against X level of boss. Wotlk was long ago man. Not even guides are very clear about it.
Some people don’t start with installing bis-tooltip, atlasloot, DBM, GS addon, they just play the game. Ofc when they realize you literally can’t do that, then they install stuff.
If the shoe fits… … . … More on to that, would you be requiring anything else handed to you on a silver plater while trying to play the game at top level without doing any research ? It has got to feel like a thud gut-punch when you realize you’re not as good as you thought you were ? Welcome back to earth.