Experience has really soured for me by now
All this PREBISPREBISPREBIS, LFM 3 DPS ALL ITEMS RESERVED, PRIEST LFG SPELL/MELEECLEAVE nonsense is really tiring. People are blindly looking at dumb excel sheets and getting mad for rolling on item if it's upgrade but it's not listed in meme sheet.
Joined a casual guild at launch and now they are also requiring to use consumables in current raid content. I mean holy hell I raided up to yoggsaron (vanilla-wotlk) in pretty good "semihc" guilds and consumables were only a thing in new hard bosses, not on encounters on farm.
Don't understand why or how it went to this sweatfest. How are rppvp realms? Is this a thing in there too?
I joined the realm I'm on because a RL friend joined it and he quit at around level 20. I did a good amount of research on my realm and found a busy, friendly guild - joined them and have not looked back. Generally now I can put a message in gchat and get the group filled without issue (depending on time/instance I may have to go to LFG for one occasionally).
Their intention is to raid when they're good and ready and the rules (such as they are) are
genuinely relaxed about how we go about it - suggestions to use consumables and the right enchants etc. but understanding that not everyone will be in a place to do so.
Basically... try and find a better guild!
Currently 43 on my shaman and everywhere I go to quest, there are loads of people camping the mobs I need.
Chatting about this with guildies last night, and I definitely found the 40's challenging and this is one of the reasons. You either find a place with good quest density and accept that you're going to find crazy competition or you go somewhere where the quests aren't so effieciently spaced and have a better time actually completing them. It's why I try and mix questing with instances at all times... and why I try (though it gets harder the closer to 60 you get) not to fuss too much about levelling quickly/efficiently.
Personally I'd either try to put a group together for the area or look elsewhere for quests (and maybe come back to the populated areas at off peak times). On Monday during the day I spent a good chunk of time killing furbolgs for Timbermaw rep but at about 16:30 it turned into the usual tagging battle. D: