Here is my situation. I have been playing wow off and on for a long time. Never played classic and with the new servers for the 20th anniversary I figured I’d try to get into it. I bought a computer and have been playing for a couple weeks. Haven’t really decided what I want to do. The ambitious part of me wants to experience all the raids but I’ve come to realize that I lack the time to invest in raiding. I honestly, have a hard enough time just getting to play because I work 10 hours a day for 4 days a week but 6 days total and I work 10pm to 6:30am to make things just a bit harder on myself. I have a wife who demands much of the rest of my time in addition to a step child and a child on the way with 2 dogs. So work and family keep me pretty busy. Example: I played today for 1 hour before bed (5pm waking up at 9pm to get to work) and received a text message “I don’t really like that I didn’t get to spend anytime with you today before you went to bed. I don’t like to feel so alone.” Meanwhile I spent the whole day with her watching the walking dead, planning a vacation to Florida in March, talking baby stuff and we walked the dogs as a family. I asked her if I could play for an hour before I go to sleep and she said, “Yes”. So I did just that and come to find out later that I made her feel “alone”. Now, I could have challenged her on that, on her feelings explaining all I did beforehand but that would just lead to a fight and it’ll wouldn’t go well regardless.
Anyways, due to the lack of availability to play I abandoned the idea of raiding. I was going to change up my focus and do PvP as I felt it might be less time consuming but I feel like that might not be true either so I feel very unsure what to do.
I’ve come up with a plan to focus on professions, gathering and crafting instead of the glory that would be found in raids or PvP; becoming an unsung hero so to speak. Maybe even try my hands at playing the market on the AH.
I figure herbalism and alchemy will give me a steady stream of in demand craftable goods to make and sell. I figure there are two classes that would be good for this Druid or Rogue; I like rogue because I figured I could pickpocket farm as well if I don’t want to gather herbs. I am playing on a PvP server as well so I figure those two would be good options but I could also just change servers entirely as I am still under lvl 20 on the characters I have started.
I guess, I am wondering does herbalism and alchemy match my new expectations and does the classes
No, I won’t be ending my marriage to play more. I am going to start counseling as well next week to assist in any ill feelings or issues within the marriage due to many reasons that relationships feel bad. The relationship isn’t the point of discussion here just added context to the plight of a man trying to have a wife and family but also wanting to do a hobby he enjoys. Maybe I also needed to vent it out a bit because I lack friends IRL.