I have been somewhat open with the fact that I haven’t exactly been performing that well in raids. I spent countless hours looking back at the last 4-5 years of data, surviviability, average parses, top parses, and more just to find a reason for why I am holding on to my raid spot by the virtue of being an officer, and being the first person out of kill comp. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much that I can find to point to beyond having a daughter 3 years ago. Since then my time spent in-game and my effort to practice, min-max, and do M+ has gone down equally.
So since 8.2 came out I have been making sure I get as much done as I can. And honestly it’s exhausting. Nazjatar, Mechagon, grinding BGs, islands, WQs, normal and heroic raids for AP, and now doing Arenas for rating and conquest have all left me feeling exhausted, and not much brainpower for other things. Toss on top of that working three mornings a week and watching my daughter most of the day, plus having to theorycraft much of the Windwalker stuff, update Wowheads guides, articles and guides for Peak, and answering questions in Discord and it’s all very overwhelming.
My wife has been great in helping to manage other stuff so I can focus on the game, guides, and sites, but I know it’s not easy.
The weeks leading up to 8.2 I was barely playing the game, and now that I’m playing so much, I can’t help but wonder if it’s all for naught.
Only time will tell. Hopefully BoD was just the low point of my playing and EP will turn it around.
