the goals i actually track now are sleep and raid endurance

that raid endurance metric is a smart one. I have started tracking three simple yes/no items each night: did I wake up clear-headed, did I leave mid-session for a snack run, and did I finish my water bottle before the final boss.

Then I only look at the weekly averages on Sunday, because one rough night is just noise. Week nine is a real milestone; the habit usually starts feeling automatic around then.

I am curious: are you counting the 2am soda run as a miss, or just as a signal to adjust the next raid night? Pairing fizzy water with a scheduled five-minute stretch break made my sessions feel less like a test of willpower.

Hi, brand new here—today is literally day 2 for me, so sorry if this is a basic question. I game too and this thread is weirdly reassuring. My 2am soda runs are almost always tied to loading screens or a bad wipe, not actual hunger.

I’m trying a big water with lime and a 5-minute stretch between pulls instead. For tracking, do you do a simple pass/fail on sleep, or use a watch?

I’m nervous about turning this into another spreadsheet I obsess over, so I’m trying to keep it to two dumb questions: did I sleep okay, and did I make it through the raid without a snack run? Thanks for posting this.

fizzy water with lime is elite raid fuel, my dorm fridge is basically just that now lol

love that your scoreboard is raid stamina + waking up human, not the scale. how's the lime

fellow late-night raider here. I’m coming off a regain, so the scale is basically noise some weeks. One thing I track that’s helped: whether I actually log off after the last boss or start the “one mre run” spiral.

If I stay up past my usual cutoff, the next day is trash even if food was fine. I also keep a packed water bottle with lime in the fridge so the 2am reach is automatic.

Sharp question: do you count “wanted soda but drank fizzy water and stayed in raid” as a win, or only if you didn’t think about it? Trying to figure out my own scoring.

This resonates. I have found it useful to track a weekly average of my last non-water drink before 10 p.m., and it lines up with fewer 2 a.m. wake-ups.

For raids, I keep a full water bottle with lime at my desk and frozen grapes in a small bowl; the hand-to-mouth habit seems to be the real trigger, not the soda itself. Do you notice a difference in your sleep after raid nights versus quiet nights?

That comparison might show whether late screens or the drinks were carrying more weight.

yo the 3-hour raid no soda run benchmark is real. i started tracking two dumb things: how many times i get up during a raid, and whether i hit a wall before the last boss.

turns out my wall is usually around hour 2, and it's almost always thirst/boredom, not actual hunger. i keep a 32oz bottle with lime slices in the fridge and refill during load screens. if it's empty by 2am i know i'm just stalling.

question: does your endurance tank more from lack of sleep or from the old soda crash? trying to figure out which one to fix first.

lol I swapped my nightly cans for lime seltzer too; waking up not wrecked is the best PR.

The raid endurance thing reminds me of that old “NSV or sleep hygiene?” thread from last winter — I ended up tracking two dumb numbers: minutes between raid end and lights out, and whether I ate actual food before the first pull. Weirdly, the second one killed most of my 2am snack runs; if I start a raid fueled, I don’t hit the kitchen at the wipe screen.

Fizzy water with lime was my gateway off cans too. What’s your pre-raid meal timing looking like now?

Sleep is the real endgame stat. My raids improved when I stopped treating 2am like a snack window.

the 2am soda run is my final boss too lol. lime fizzy water sounds like a solid loot drop

I’m a daily weigher too, but I stopped letting the scale narrate raid nights. My new dumb metric: how many times I pause the game to pee vs. how many times I pause to grab a snack.

When I front-load a big lime seltzer before the first boss, snack pauses drop to zero. I also track sleep latency after logging off — if I’m out in 15 minutes instead of doom-scrolling for an hour, that’s a W.

Scale might jump from late sodium, but my 7-day trend doesn’t flinch. Do you log raid nights separately, or just grade the next morning?

Hi, brand-new here—day 3, so sorry if this is obvious. I love the raid endurance metric.

I’ve been tracking something adjacent: “log-off lag.” That’s the gap between telling myself I’ll close the game after this match and actually hitting exit. Last night mine was 38 minutes, but I still got to bed before 1 and woke up way less foggy.

Do you count anything like that, or just whether you made it through the raid without the 2am kitchen trip? I’m trying to find small stats that feel less scary than the scale.

The unsung stat for me is “time to first kitchen urge after dinner.” I log that next to bedtime and a morning grog score (1–5), and the trend line is way more honest than the daily weight. Fizzy water with lime is a solid loot drop, but what shifted my late nights was a full bottle at the desk plus a 10:30 dim-screens alarm.

Do you track wake-ups, or just total sleep? Curious whether your raid endurance gains showed up before or after sleep got consistent.

Curious how you’re loging the raid endurance side. I track two dumb things in Notes: chair exits per hour after midnight and time-to-first-tilt/rage queue.

For me, sleep regularity beats total hours—two nights at the same-ish bedtime and my last-boss reaction time is noticeably better. What’s your actual metric for a “good” raid night: no wipes, no energy crash, or just not auto-piloting the last pull?

Also, do you think the lime seltzer is replacing the ritual/hand-to-mouth part, or just making the old habit less punishing? I’m trying to figure out which lever is doing the work in my own n=1.