u/Jacks_black_guitar

So to start, 30yo male, lean 98kg (6’8), workout regularly.
For the past 4-5 months ive adopted a really poor sleeping habit. Ill be in bed by 1am, asleep by 2am and up by 830 each morning.

This worked for a while in terms of falling asleep consistently, however within the last 3 weeks ive started experiencing what i can only describe as “sleep anxiety”.

i over think about how i HAVE to sleep NOW because mentally ive put a hard cap on sleeping no later than 2am. this anxiety is then expressed as not being able to fall asleep for 30 minutes to an hour.

i know the solution and im working on going to bed earlier, but is this a phenomenon anyone else has experienced and resolved?

sometimes i crash and other times its the above.

thanks in advance

To preface, I'm 2.7k IO.

I main a Devourer DH with a 269 ilvl and have likely had the fortune of getting carried pretty hard across many of the 25 total runs I've completed in M+ this season.

I had one game during a +12 Nexus Point Xenas with some pretty toxic players who flamed me for coming up short on DPS.

Although they were toxic, I couldn't help but reflect on the post-pull analysis which made it clear that I simply do not understand my spec no matter how hard I try, how many tutorials I watch and how much time I invest sitting in front of dummies, sweating over my keyboard to pump numbers close to my patchwerk 5 boss sim.

Sometimes I can pump my numbers up to 188-190k dps on 5 dummies and 70k at most on single boss. At times I've leaving a pack inside keys as highest DPS but I struggle with consistentcy.

For reference, below are some stats I've pulled from Archon post-pull analysis.

NPX +12 - My Overall damage = 81.7k (Parse 0%) vs top 2 dps 109.2k and 90.2k.

Sky Reach +11 - My overall = 76.2k (Parse 40%) vs 98.9k and 76.9k

MT +11 My overall = 106.7k (Parse 51%) vs 118.8k and 133.7k

I've really spent hours running lower keys, high keys, watched pros, tutorials, tips, practiced in front of dummies and yet as soon as I get into a key I almost immediately become overwhelmed with the all my keys, the need to kick, stun, navigate mechanics and try to focus through the explosion of on-screen effects.

I'm quite new to WoW, I started during S1 TWW but ran maybe 10 0-6+ M keys in that xpac, mainly focussing on world content.

I do enjoy the challenge of overcomming higher keys but it's really demoralising trying to make an effort to improve and constantly coming up incredibly short.