Thanks for the WotM run. Much appreciated patience as this newbie learned the ropes. Definitely a better raid than King's Fall, less mechanical and I felt like everyone had a more robust role to play throughout. The loot was surprisingly generous - I couldn't even carry it all out with me. That said, I ended up using all of it as infusion fodder, an alternate set of chest armor aside. Went into the raid at 361, came out at 365. Not bad.
It was fun to get all the monitors, but boy I don't think I've ever dropped a quest faster than I dropped that one once I saw the requirements. That's a giant heaping bucket of nope. Whatever it earns isn't worth that.
WotM was the first raid I've ever run blind (was the only one I was able to), and it wad hilariously fun. Everything felt very organic and connected; I was sherpa'd through King's Fall and I couldn't imagine trying to figure out even the first encounter blindly. Super-accessible, generous with drops and secrets, and (outside of the last encounter, which will stop groups cold if their chemistry doesn't gel well) fairly forgiving of one or two missteps, which is relaxing. KF felt like one tiny stumble meant an insta-wipe.
Edit: What I also like is how the whole raid, outside of Phase 2 of Aksis, is very approachable to people lower on Light Levels, and you can very easily just run the first 4 encounters over the course of 2-3 weeks and boost your light up to where that final phase is approachable. My first raid run, I was 361, and after two weeks I finally finished off Aksis yesterday at 370; and the runs up to this didn't feel like a waste at all because I was getting steady drops along the way.