I will be 54 in October and have been playing from the beginning. I still raid but mainly casual ones of LFR. I do go into mythics with friends but i dont go for real high ones. I play when i want and do what i want to do unless i push myself.
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Will be 40 soon. I was deployed/training/deploying when this game first came out, so I didnât start playing til late '06. Since then, my priorities in the game have changed a bit over the last 18 years. I did lots and lots of raiding ~10-15 years ago. I simply want to relax these days and have been solo since late BFA (I didnât play in Legion at all). I do like to challenge myself, too, so delves have given me the chance to do that at my own pace.
I just wanna chill with my fur kids, have a bowl, and enjoy myself doing whatever tf I want. Doing solo stuff allows me to do that. It also lets me have the hockey game on while I play so I can stop anytime I want to watch and not worry about other people.
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In my early 70âs, started in mid-2006 and havenât raided since Wrath and early Cata when the guild simply disintegrated. Now I just enjoy alts, the scenery, quirky side stories like all the signs giving glimpses of the koboldâs fear of the dark and kind of hinting they predate the Titans on Azeroth as they were doing their thing when the Earthen struck their caves. Well done and fun stuff by the Blizz writers.
I call myself casual as I donât do any group or competitive activities. My best geared characters came out of DF at about 460 levels. More than good enough for me. I mostly play tank characters for survival and still manage to die in the open world even as a pally tank. Yeah, forever a noob. I love it.
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Which version of the final cycle, I can seriously play, but the fate of the season really ruined my rhythm, I was forced to play the same content twice in the last small version, no matter how much I did, I could only maintain the value. Three months, at the end of which version can I work hard?
I stopped caring about raids in TBC
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In my 50âs and playing since Vanilla on and off. Quit raiding many expansions ago and most of my gaming friends are long done with WOW. So I just flitter around and do whatever interests me in the moment.
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SpotemDottem is an amazing name
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Never been a big fan of the mythic raiding. Usually will do at least every wing once in the lowest setting to complete storyline but that is it.
I stopped caring during/after Lich King. I remember progging Heroic. My PC could barely run Wrath, I would dip to 2 FPS during Sindragosa. So basically my guild benched me for Lich King.
I didnât raid again until Legion.
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Im 58 now.
In the past I have done a arena team and some group stuff. Due to past medical
issues. I dont have very good reaction time all the time. So the only group content
I do is with friends (which is very rare now). It just puts too much pressure on me
to not screw up. I dont enjoy it, and it is not fun. So, 99% of my time is spent
alone.
Whats really odd. Is that i play drums. While playing drums. My hands
and feet know exactly where to be. and what to do, without me even thinking
about it. But that, for some reason, does not translate over to video games.
So thats why i will never step foot in a mythic. I like follower dungeons
and am glad they added them in. I also enjoy just leveling characters.
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I think I grouped with you in Vanilla.
If that same baby is now out of school, you win the thread.
Sounds to me like you need to start your own world first guild, so you can hone your skills on your free time.
I like all this. Sometimes when I play it is very focused on one goal in the game. Other times I pick herbs. Slowly. Between fishing. But I play often, sometimes for hours. itâs easy to see how there can be some sort of sliding scale, or X/Y graph, to rate a personâs casual/try hard level. And then someone would come along and throw in a âZâ axis and the entire thing goes to hell.
One thing I think we can all agree on is that when someone calls another player casual, you know what that means. And when a person describes themselves as casual, you know what that means too.
Peace!
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My guild is just chilling in Delves and the occasional Heroic dungeon. Most of us are older, busy with kiddos and life. We stopped raiding a while ago, but have a friendâs guild to tag along with when we feel like it. Our schedule is âif someone wants to do something, post an event in Discord!â We donât have a set schedule. lol
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You are less casual than someone who never does Mythic+ or steps inside a raid.
Join our community/guild
Iâm 44 and Iâve been playing since WotLK. I enjoy the open world experience more now than in the past. Especially the delves and solo type play you can do now.
Once upon a time I was all about progression raiding and pushed that pretty hard. When they started adding multiple difficulties in raid is when I lost interest for the most part. I just got burned out on the endless grind of raiding.
Doing dungeons used to be a favorite activity of mine. Now itâs all a race to the end without actually enjoying the zone. No one says not one word in a dungeon, so you can forget about talking to people. The feeling of being left behind in a dungeon isnât a fun way to play for me either.
So, I just started focusing on delves and I really like them. I think that will be my go to content for a bit. I just have so much more fun doing casual type of play now. open world content is where it is at for me now.
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in my late 60s and play over 12 hours a day most days, retired time is nothing, i havent raided or done dungeons since bfa so love that we now at least have follower dungeons, the delves i have only done up to level 3 because i have 60 odd toons to level 
and i love levelling most, got two at 80 and the rest all stopping at 79 as i was told after 5th one everything gets easier and its already to easy to level, bliz killing the joy of levelling making that to easy and mythics sound way to hard, its going to be interesting to see where wow goes from here, lots more solo players then ever before , is it age? boredom? for me age youngsters move way to fast for me 
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Iâm here just for the solo play. Loving the delves so far.
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Hittin 40 in a couple months been playing since halfway through the release of vanilla, yeah thatâs where Iâm at. If thereâs something my wife and I canât clear together or through LFR we just donât do it.
I used to raid usually heroic, sometimes mythic and did roughly 2 seasons of M+ between legion and BFA. I just canât deal with the stress anymore, and carpal tunnel lol.
Would love to do more M+ and such but I need people who arenât inflamed rectums about mistakes and can take a minute to chill if someone needs to attend to a family member.
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Yeah I like playing the hardest content in various other cooperative games with others, but not here. Unfortunately, the community is not pleasant to deal with generally. People want to kick others for simple mistakes, even transmogs. And everyone just goes along with it. Itâs a stressful experience, so I skip it. Very happy there is a gearing route through delves now.
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Iâm 40 also. Everything I do is more laid back. Oddly I can play pvp more now because I donât take it as seriously, and I actually perform better by not putting pressure on myself to be good. Strange how that works for me at least.
Iâve also gotten more into crafting and professions. Theyâre more complicated sure, but you can sit and spend some time learning about them, and itâs fun for me,
Other than that I love the accessibility of the game these days. I know Iâm going to get most of the gear and things I want.
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