How do you have fun in game?

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I’ll try and explain a bit where I’m coming from first. I am probably a 10 years old into the game (can’t remember the exact year I started playing), I started in Cataclysm and I remember some things from back in those days. I loved Demonology Warlock and was very interested in PvP back then. Unfortunately, those days are gone, I’m older and Demonology is not the spec it used to be.

Currently I am feeling under the weather with the game as I personally feel 0 interest in playing any class. I have played all of them and no matter how much I try to enjoy them I keep coming back to my priest, my warlock or my warrior. I don’t have fun with any of my “main” classes, I feel they are boring, they don’t really have that many options to “change” their playstyle or “fun” interactions with their talents that make me want to keep playing them over and over again.
I leveled up a couple more classes to max, but I hate the fact that I have to keep doing the intro and do the whole story to catch up with renown. And for some reason when I try to cheer myself up and do play with one of them I end up ramming myself into a wall because I am so far behind on my gear that I have this feeling of “meh” when I am supposed to do something.

I dislike M+ with all my being, to me it’s just a super boring experience to try and beat a timer while avoiding annoying mechanics (because affixes are very annoying, especially storming).
I do try to play PvP, and since I am not good I feel stuck into getting smacked by players way better or with better gear than me because, as I said, I am behind on gear. And, while I can enjoy PvP a little bit more than M+ it is also very stressful since I am very bad at it. It is a grind and I know the idea is to get better at it, but it is not fun having a 10-15 loss streak while trying to push a bit. Also, people are so disrespectful sometimes when you are trying to learn to play a class in PvP.
Raiding to me feels meaningless right now. I started CN on my hunter and killed a few bosses in heroic, but I think I only got probably 1 piece of loot in the first 3 or 4 weeks of the raid, which made me not want to go in there ever again. I don’t care about the AotC achievement if it doesn’t give me a mount tbh.

But aside from my ranting, my question is: Have you guys felt like this before? and if you have, what do you usually do to make this feeling go away? How do you guys pick a class and stick with it forever? How do you have fun in game?

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My version of fun is exactly not picking 1 class. I have some favorites. And sometimes they change. With torghast I finally had an opportunity to test out certain specs to decide if I could handle the playstyle.
So I now have 2 resto shamans, and 2 prot pallies. Along with a mage, hunter, lock and 2 druids.

The ones I started on have their full 197 cove gear unlocked, 3 at around 200 ilvl. But I dont do my weeklies on them anymore because frankly I’m burnt out.

I’m enjoying testing out different race spec combos in lfg pug queues. It’s not always great but more often than not its good.

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Fun? I don’t know if I play for fun mostly to keep my mind busy. I cannot work at the moment and volunteer. Wait till this terminal leave is over. Hope soon.

Hobbies are work, family, and wow.

Upgrade formulas to keep mind busy and create new products for free. Some Corp pulls me in to ask certain questions I do it for free at the moment. Until all this retirement stuff is done. Then try to work from button to top all over again. Hmmm I suck at resumes. So yea wow is to keep my mind occupied till then.

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I like improving my gameplay. I have a ways to go, and I just really enjoy practicing.

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at the end of Tier 9 I felt ToC was so bad i just cant keep raiding it. and since raiding is all i did back then I decided to look for another game. Luckily ICC saved me.

at the end of Tier 13 I felt keeping my 25man guild alive against the easier difficulty 10man guilds is too challenging and raiding as a whole will end. Since all i did was raiding… I quit.

I came back when it became clear the 20man raiding is not going away and small-scale content will not replace it. if raiding is threatened again, I’ll probably bow out again. we’ll see.

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Your not alone there TONS of people that feel exactly like you are.
Your post nailed everything i feel, except i’m not even interested in raiding.

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Honestly I just play for the collections tab and the one friend on my friends list who still actually logs on. We just farm old content for mounts mainly. We stay up on our renown but that’s about it for current content. The whole m+/pvp/raid hamster wheel gear cycle does not appeal to me at all and personally I think m+ is ruining WoW by making things to esports go go go. SL is the least motivated ive ever been to log in. Feels like if you’re not on the infinite grind hamster wheel for gear there’s nothing to do for the casual player. I know there’s sanctum upgrades but personally the absurd cost of those just makes me ignore them entirely. If the cost was reasonable I’d probably pursue it.

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This is a very interesting reply. I personally agree on most of it tbh. Ever since M+ came to WoW I have been feeling the “need” to participate in it if I wanted to get some gear so that I can be “competent” in the raid or in PvP.
Old PvP gearing was basically 1 set that you got with honor and then everyone was in the same exact page, you just went in and cut each other’s throats, but now you have to farm conquest and upgrade those pieces with honor (which, I think it’s not a bad thing as you are working towards something and you get rewarded for being good at it) where now if you don’t farm that honor you don’t get to be as good as other people or gear ends up playing some factor into the arenas.

I don’t feel motivated to log in, but I want to think it’s because most classes and specs did not get changed that much from BfA, so I am kind of tired of playing the same thing. Also talents need a rework for many specs as they play basically the exact same as BfA (Warlocks in general).
I just can’t feel motivated to play a class that I don’t enjoy, I can’t feel fun when playing my class so it really bothers me.

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I try to keep my range of fun within the lands of exotic. So that would mean new characters and classes. I have goal posts that aren’t so exotic but they kind of are like an anchor to ensure continued Involvement.

Not that I would require them but they do prove to feed life blood to my minds fantasy for a character.

As for the stuff that Involves pride, ego, or even social elements. I keep my nose out of those bags.

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I use toys to transform Demon Hunters into Drustvar Witches and turkeys.

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i’ve never needed to have my hand held to be guided in a specific direction.
i have fun by doing what I want to do… not what other people think i should be doing.
i still haven’t managed to get bored, and there’s always something to do.

collections are my main motivation.
appearances, toys, pets, mounts… things which will be “forever”.

the gear grind doesn’t appeal to me, because i find it frustrating to be constantly upgrading gear, only to have it be obsolete in the next patch.
i just get my gear to a point where i can comfortably kill stuff.

if i need a change from farming, i open the achievement tab and see what silly things i can find to do

i do archaeology on my mage, and crittermorph everything in every digsite.
flying pigs and monkeys pleases me :slight_smile:

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I enjoy doing stuff with other people. There’s no social life to be had where I live.
WoW provides a place to do stuff and talk to people. That’s why I can enjoy content like raiding or M+ without a significant gear flow.

The times I intermittently quit WoW are when I have nobody to play with so I don’t get the social aspect. I play till I’ve seen the story and gotten my exalteds and then bail until there’s more to do.

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We’re now able to buy recreational weed in my state. This has added entirely new dimensions to my warcraft experience.

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I’ve played since vanilla (wish I could have stayed with my original account, but change of email locked it out for life)

I feel you deeply. I’m a healer, and I’m always drawn back to my monk, despite countless alts I can’t be motivated to grind intros to repeatedly. I did find a guild with nice people on my alliance server, only to learn they were all mid and east coast, so all group activities were just too early for me 8n the west coast.

So I switched back to horde mid January and leveled my old 50’s healers up, changing covenants to experience different storylines only to have it sink in that I lost interest in the story in BFA, and here hasn’t been an appealing hook since legion for me.

Not like the Lich King days. That storyline was awesome, and the opening of AQ was epic in vanilla!

So I bought the most recent expansion and paid for a month of time in final fantasy 14 last week, haven’t played it, and am kinda just puttering in and out of Random BG waiting for hope with the BlizzCon update.

Like you, I really don’t get the M+ scene. In past expansions there were storyline gems in quest chains, or much more exploration that felt rewarding when discovering something off the beaten path. Not so in Shadowlands.

Mind, I fully enjoyed Shadowlands at the start, mostly because dungeons weren’t about rushing and actually required a slower pace (but still, dungeons are far better than BFA was). Was lovely while it lasted! But, see, us vets remember what it was like to sap or sheep mobs so we don’t get overwhelmed - not from pack size, but actual damage from each bad guy! (Yes, green hats, dungeon creatures used to hurt in our day)

Right, fun. I guess watching druid bots in bastion and maldraxxus and trying to time toy clickables to mess up their scripts is where I still find entertainment lately

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clothespins, gnomes, vulpera and kungaloosh

wait, did i say that out loud ?

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Having fun and being a casual in PvP at max lvl is mutually exclusive.

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Yeah, I have felt that way on and off since WoD. Probably the least so in Legion, and I found pieces of WoD and BfA fun, but overall they were bad.

In the case of SL there is no fix for me. And fixing loot drops isn’t going to make it better. It’s a bad expac down to the bone and not fun at all for me. I have unsubbed and won’t change my mind.

Because I bought the game I will probably come back much later in the expac to see what I want to see.

But I am done trusting this company to make a fun game.

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How do I have fun? I log in, run around doing what I want to do with whatever character I’m playing in that moment, and I log off once I’ve had enough.

It’s really quite simple.

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How I have fun, let me count the ways:

  • Leveling alts
  • Farming mounts
  • Farming transmog
  • Leveling battle pets
  • I used to work on reps but ever since I got the 100 achieve I’ve been really lazy.
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You can try to join a rated battleground group. It’s easy to get gear through that.

You’re also on moon guard. Have you considered role playing?

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