37 here, retired from raiding at the start of SL. Just have too much other stuff to do in life to worry about raiding and preparing for raiding and M+ 20 hours a week. Now I can spend 20 hours a week questing and doing dungeons and delves and… wait.
Seriously though, I did retire, and I like being able to level alts and have fun without fear of being left behind or something. Plus, if I don’t feel like playing for a night, I don’t feel guilty!
I grew exhausted optimizing the fun out of the game, and the only downside is I may not get to run the raid on normal, and ya know what… at this point. That’s OK. Maybe I’ll try weeks from now, when I won’t be allowed to anyway because to be let into normal I’ll have to have cleared normal and…
Yep, I really nolifed a heroic raid schedule in Cata through to MoP and it’s been downhill on play time since.
Over 40 now and I mostly just bum around in the open world, collect old achieves and mogs. Maybe do some follower dungeons or LFR + the odd LFD run.
Delves seemed promising initially and I might give them another go but all the changes recently have been a massive turn off. Pretty miserable experience starting around +5, we’ll see how it goes.
The change I noticed was my own mindset. While I still like to do heroic and mythic content, I don’t find myself getting as agitated as I used to if things go sideways during progression. I also don’t feel as compelled to rush through as fast as possible.
As far as grouping, I seem to struggle to find consistent groups that don’t spam incessant soundboard clips or talk about group sex fantasies in Discord/Voice Chat.
I am also going to be 47 this year but my guild has been AOTC-only focused for the past 3 expansions and we also moved our raiding from 3 nights a week to 2 nights all those years ago because we all have lives. Mythic always brought out the worst in our behavior towards each other and frankly–we just no longer give 2 cheeks about it.
I do still “push keys” (as a pug tank) because part of me misses the somewhat content-pushy stuff I USED to do. I’ve been able to get my portals each season this way but at a serious cost. I mean, i’ve not made ANY NEW friends this way and each season my tolerance for being bossed around and condescendingly directed-to over the course of the season gets smaller and smaller. I don’t pug raids though. I STILL prefer to raid with my guild/friends because they’re my age and not so damned afraid to get in discord and actually speak to one another.
That’s the one thing that I think has really changed in this game and it kinda makes me sad. Way too many people want to “play solo” (and please dont get wrong, I’m glad they can now) but the lack of social interaction or the fact that it’s fallen off a cliff is just a huge cultural shift I’m not cool with.
I miss playing with people who actually would hang out in discord even when not raiding and/or who are willing to get in discord and work out a hard problem together instead of relying on typing and the stupid ping system.
barely keep up with content. i have no idea what my ilevel is. probably should at least lfr but… yeaaaaaah, i think i’d rather just do delves and collect stuff.
i’m like number 13 in pet collections for my server though, hows that for casual cheeves?
“Old man isn’t really a time in your life or a period of years, it’s an attitude. Old man is a point of view, it’s a way of looking at things. Some guys are old men when they’re in their 20’s.” - George Carlin
So far I’ve not been motivated to run any group content. I’m going to see how far I can go while essentially ignoring any of the 5 man group content, and just doing delves, WQs, follower dungeons, and LFR, and group WQs like WBs and things like that. But my base plan is to stay out of Heroics, M+, etc.
See how far this takes me. I find it hard enough right now to simply get the weekly stuff, and I’d like to do more story questing, but haven’t really had the time.
As I get older I can still be competitive but I become more and more of a completionist and a collector. Past expansions wouldn’t even bother doing side quests and now I’ve done them all. Past expansions I would play only one toon and now I play multiple
I’m 68. I do not have dedicated play time, so I don’t do dungeons and raids. Plus I dislike the go go go and ascerbic mentality that I kept finding. So I quit doing them.
I have enough stress in real life, I don’t come here to be stressed out.
Right now I’m just leveling up some alts, then will work on getting into Delves. The few I have done have been a lot of fun. But I solo only.
I do whatever I want to or feel like doing at the time. I don’t care about progression, etc. I am here to have fun.
Hero track, one below the best, which is mythic tracking. Delves do need to eventually get mythic tracking or people will get tired of being subpar. Hopefully by season 2.
44 and just don’t have the mental bandwidth or time to put into being a hardcore anymore. I have my own personal guild, just me with all my alts, and really only care about leveling alts, delves, and follower dungeons. I’ll do some LFR here and there just to get into the raids, but I no longer have the desire to fight for a raid spot and try to be top in my class.
42 and I started a couple of months into BC. I’ve always been a casual player. I’ve never been particularly interested in raiding or group content, partly because I’ve never been able to play to a schedule, mostly because I have zero tolerance for toxicity. And that’s only gotten stronger as I’ve gotten older. Never really been in a guild. And yet, I’ve still enjoyed the baseline MMO experience of being in a shared persistent world and community; what I’ve come to call “ambient multiplayer”. I’m just here to relax and not think too hard, unlike the real world.
Retired here. Now I’m more interested in lightweight play, when the game seems to be going for more complexity in all aspects of the game. It’s not working out for me…hasn’t been the last couple expansions.
Thought I’d try this expansion for the delves. Unfortunately, someone thought that making these things little one boss raids was such a smashing good idea. Might be, for raiders, but so far, not for me,
49 here. I still raid and do M+.
I tried the casual thing in BFA. Couldn’t stand it.
Not sure I can play WoW if I cant raid. Although Delves and story time raids might change that.
I am 41, disabled, I raid heroic, I do mythic+ to a 2000 score. That is about all I try to push anymore. My hands don’t work at all sometimes. I love delves now. I can afk as long as I need to. With almost 20 years of playing WoW, I just mostly collect things.
I accidently stumbled into my current guild, which I love. Everyone is chill, and helpful.