54 here. I dont do anything that serious i.e. raids, mythics or heroics. I’m too old for the toxicity. My hard content is pet battles that damn collector Dyna lol Naw I do delves, used to do pvp but yeah right until everybody and their momma have cc and heals, stunfest.
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I’m 39 and have been playing since the start. I have always played a troll hunter as my main and while I did take a few expansions off (Cata, Legion, most of mop) I have always had fun playing this game. When I started I played with friends on a desktop PC that I built myself and took college classes. We raided and I got the old hunter challenge bow/staff from vanilla wow. It was great and I enjoyed continuing to raid in TBC. But I got busy, left the game, and lost my old account.
Then I came back for WOTLK on a new account because it reminded me of WarCraft III. But I never did more than LFG and LFR once it was available. It would be fun to do heroic and mythic raids but with a wife and 2 kids and a full-time job plus almost 3 acres of land to manage there just isn’t time to do all of that. Life is very different now and that is a big reason why I like delves and LFR. I get to gear up my character a bit but I don’t have to commit to the time that raiding regularly takes up. And I don’t do mythic+ because dungeon runs really only appeal to me if I have a group of friends to run them with as opposed to a group from LFG.
I just have fun going for achievements, soloing old content, leveling alts, collecting mounts n toys n pets (and teleport items), doing quests, and jumping into random bgs. This expansion I’m also having a blast playing delves since it can be done completely solo.
But I don’t worry about getting the best gear–just LFR level is fine for me though I won’t complain about getting higher level like we can from delves. It all resets anyway so I just focus on having fun and grabbing things that don’t reset 
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interestingly enuff ive had no probs doing my heroes for the vault this expansion and always before i just nvr bothered
I quit 1 week in to BFA, returned for classic, got convinced to play DF, officialy came back as a filthy casual. I don’t want to do “real game” content again, had my fill for years. Now I just RP and do filthy casual content sometimes.
I still refuse to touch Looking For Retards though.
Coming up on 34, and I just have no interest or time for pushing content. Used to be big into raiding across several MMO’s, but now I just want to slow down and enjoy the scenic route. Even running just plain old dungeons isn’t something I’m really into anymore.
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60 here, not much for raids , dung’s, m+'s. i just chill with my gf, her family, close friends to do stuff. one of these day’s i’ll be too old to play this game…lol.
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53 here and I just do what I want at the pace that suits me. Years ago I did a lot PVP and some raiding and dungeons but that stuff doesn’t interest me anymore and hasn’t for a long time.
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Your reaction times shouldn’t be noticeably slowing at that age. You know blizzard has changed the raids so there are more instant kill mechanics so what you may have been able to move out of in MoP you will die to now.
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how geared can someone truly get through delves?
You aren’t very ‘casual’ in my opinion if you are scheduling your life around a game.
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Most of the player base is over 40 and probably closer to 50.
if you are posting on wow forums you are definitely not casual, as much as you like to think that you are.
actual casuals play for maybe an hour a week, then go on with their lives.
this is not true at all, people post on facebook all day long does that mean they do not care about their lives?
if you use to play wow 40 hours a week and now you play say 10 hours a week you are now a more casual player
Also casual in the terms of wow is more suited towards those who use to raid or run to clear the highest content and now do not care about gear score, and numbers on a chart
Casuals play LFR every week and have LIFES to care for IRL
And also pay for heroic - Mythic boost
yes. yes that is exactly what that means. if your entire life is just you posting on facebook. 
you very much do not understand what a casual player actually is.
if you say so
Yeah. The reflexes don’t really come back once they go, and the gameplay, at the higher end, is very much designed around younger reflexes.
It’s odd, in a way, because WoW has an older playerbase (and it will keep getting older), but over time the gameplay has become much “younger” in terms of the demand/test on reflexes. That’s a mismatch, especially since the game doesn’t generally attract a ton of younger players these days. At some point the bulk of the playerbase are going to age out of being twitch reflex kings, and the design will likely need to be adjusted at that point, I’d think, because right now it’s a bit of a squeeze play, with a dwindling number of actual players who can play the marquee content every year due to aging out of the reflex window.
I find it supremely ironic that the version of this game that we played in our 30s was much less demanding on reflexes than the version we are playing in our 50s … but it is what it is.
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I can’t no life the game anymore either and, honestly, I don’t want to. Most of the time WoW feels like a chore. Once I hit my guild’s ilevel requirement to raid, I log in for weekly raid night, and I log out.
I’m 49. My guild runs low keys together and normal and heroic raids. Most of us have been around since Vanilla, which is where we met, and now our adult kids play with us as well as some Wrath babies. It’s a great time.
There are lots of guilds like ours around, so I hope you find the one that fits you. The words “friends and family” are probably what you’re looking for.
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41 here. Just enjoying the game by myself on a level locked 69 warlock, progressing through the expansions as much as I can. I do what I can solo in each zone progressively, take notes of where to come back later, and move on.
Kind of a weird way to play but I’m enjoying it. I did miss out on most of SL and all of DF, so I’d like to see them before I move on to TWW. Not in a giant rush.
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