Matt’s Notebook: One Step Backward, but Two Steps Up

We finished off this week with some mixed progression.

  • In Death Jester’s, we did not secure the Nexus King kill as I hoped we would. With a few key DPS players out, we just couldn’t get through or over the top. This encounter really exposed some of the shortcomings that our team had from a personal awareness and responsibility standpoint. Our best was 12% remaining with a minute left towards the enrage and one of our star killers did not get to the right position which cost us the kill. The rest of the night was mired in various personal errors. It was a pretty disappointing night and we had hoped to kill it before the Hall of Fame nerfs arrived but it was too late. With the nerfs and some of our personnel back, we should be able to crush it quickly and move onto Dimensius this week. We committed two full days to Nexus King, so we didn’t get any reclear loot (although most of us did squeeze in a quick two-boss clear on Mythic).
  • Last Call played better this week with the reclear of Forgeweaver, and we secured a new progression kill with Fractillus down. I felt we could’ve killed it earlier, but it took us above average on pull counts (30 pulls compared to under 25). One of our healers is looking to take a step back, so I’m back out on the waiver wire looking for a free agent healer/DPS hybrid to add. Having a Holy/Ret Paladin, or a Preservation/Devastation Evoker would be the preference here. Come apply!
  • Legion Remix is out this week! I’m still undecided about what to play in Remix, but I’m leaning towards another Demon Hunter or potentially a Druid. I’ve got a low-level Demon Hunter somewhere, and that will set me up with the new spec coming out in Midnight, but I realized I don’t have any late-game leather wearers right now. I’m still on the fence here.
  • Datamined Midnight stuff has also revealed that Shadowlands Timewalking is coming soon! I am not looking forward to Spires of Ascension or Sanguine Depths.
  • Outside of WoW, I’ve been playing Diablo again. Season 10’s been enjoyable so far. I’m still leveling my Spiritborn. I think my goal with the game is to just finish the seasonal journey and get to max there before I say I’m done. I wish I could find some people to play Diablo with and party together on some of the endgame stuff especially late night once I wind down from WoW.
  • It’s going to be another busy week out there and we have a long maintenance today. Welcome to October!