Hello everyone!
I have been pumped for classic ever since the announcement, and since classic launched, a group of IRL friends started playing classic. 2 of them quit after week 1 because of queue times. One of them remains playing, but everytime I loggin, he wants to play with me and I feel terrible because sometimes I just feel like questing and experiencing the game by myself without being on discord, listening to the music, the sounds, the whole world of classic!
I kind of feel like I have to go at his pace instead of the authenthic experience of sometimes grouping with random people and doing an escort quest and then playing a bit solo. He is a good friend irl, but I enjoy classic more by myself and I know I’m probably wrong for feeling this way… I even thought on re-leveling another character and putting myself offline in blizzard app.
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I didn’t even read your post but I’m going to say yes.
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The easy solution is to start a new character and either use that to play with your buddy and use your higher level character to solo, or play with your higher character with your buddy and then use the new character to experience the game as you see fit. Tell your friend that when you are on X character, you wish to play solo… if he is your friend, he won’t be upset and understand.
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Me and my friends have been questing together here and there :o so far we have been having blast. Today we went solo for a mini break :D!
Are you not mature enough to just say, “Hey man, today I feel like playing by myself for a bit. Lets play together later?”
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Are you a bad friend? No, but your friend needs more friends.
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Gonna go out there and say yes you are sort of a bad friend. I mean i get it. But if my friends are wanting to play with me im gonna play with them. Cant say they always do the same for me but whatchya gonna do.
I would say make time for your friene. Make an alt if you feel he is to slow or to fast
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I’d say get out of your comfort zone and do it for him for a bit and then go and do your own thing a bit later. Both can be rewarding and it is essential to maintain a social aspect to the game and really in all othe aspects of life too.
Try finding pleasure in helping others or doing things for others helps but also be frank enough to draw the line in the sand and say alright now it’s time to go do my own thing.
Try and balance it out.
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Just tell them you don’t want too. They’re probably missing playing with you, but at the end of the day it’s up to you how you wanna play. Just be opened and honest 
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You aren’t a bad friend. You are just scared to tell people the truth. Maybe they read the forums and all your problems will be solved.
Hi, IRL friend of OP! 
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Thank you very much all for your honest answers, I appreciate it and they definitely help!
So what I recommend doing is have a character you play with your friend and have a character u play solo. I am currently doing this with a group of friends. I have my main character I lvl by myself but when my friend is on usually once a week we will group up and quest.
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Kind of in the same situation. Don’t feel bad though. Play the game how you want to play it. It’s your subscription bro
What’s the point of playing if you can’t do it the way that is fun for you? If your friend can’t understand that maybe you should let them go their own way. I guess that’s why I don’t have many friends though but at least my wife understands and also does her own crafting when I am fishing and stuff.
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You are bad, more than ad evil
Yes. I couldn’t imagine my friends wanting to play games with me and me wanting to play alone.
I have a friend who logs on once a month (retail previously) and wants to do something at his pace every single time he does. Naturally, it kind of sucks to have to stray from making progress to help a friend out on queue.
In my eyes, worth it to keep him playing though. If your friend is like that, just help as needed. If more frequent than that, maybe a 2nd character is a good idea. Power leveling is not really exciting for anyone, so I can see why you wouldn’t want to run through with him on your main.
the real question, is his friend mature enough to take it the right way? i did that one back in TBC and it actually ended up in a guild rupture LOL.
You’re definitely not a bad friend - you’ve just discovered the grand irony of MMOs. MMOs are inherently designed as social experiences and yet, they fundamentally fail to deliver on social gameplay with your friends.
Unless all of your friends have an identical play schedule, inevitably one will get ahead of the others. Even if you do have an identical play schedule, some may be slower than others. Even if you’re all perfectly matched and play at the same times, maybe you’ll feel like doing a Dungeon when they want to go grind skinning.
It’s a game, you should play it for your own enjoyment and not others - this means linking up with them to play when you want to and doing your own stuff the rest of the time.
A friend who tries to dictate how you spend your free time isn’t a good friend. Fundamentally, it’s no different than a friend getting upset because you don’t feel like drinks tonight.
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Perhaps he is the bad friend? Roads go two ways. Tell him what you want to do, either he is going to move on or he’s going to slow down. I have been reading the quest again etc the first time through and blowing by them on my alts. My wife didn’t really like playing wow with me, she wants to smell the flowers and do frivolous things while I wanted to get to max level asap and raid. So for our sanity we decided it was best to do our own thing. If you are pushed you will just get angry and hold a grudge.