In a month? Two months? A year?
Had a talk with my therapist about my fear of classic and my gaming addiction. He said two hours is the maximum I should be putting into any activity to avoid diminishing returns and using it as a means of avoidance. I would like to stick to that, and also probably skip playing on the weekends.
But is it even worth it? That computes out to something like 125 days or something to 60.
in the time it took you to talk to your therapist you could’ve gotten at least half a level 
2 hours a day is 14 hours a week. If you aren’t looking to be top raider ASAP I think that will be plenty of time to unwind and enjoy classic. You’ll just be savoring the experience!
If you cut out your therapy time, thats X number of more minutes you can play. Also you should definitely wake up and play until exhausted, then nap, and wake up and play some more. Anyone who says otherwise is just trying to trick you into being left behind the pack so they get all the best loot first. I bet your therapist is in Method.
If you don’t have a need to race for anything then its plenty to experience the game if you do a bit of prep or have some warlock buddies. 2 hours a day or 14 hours a week is more than alot of people are even going to have to play.
I’m not sure what to think of your therapist’s advice, given other addictions are generally best avoided completely. (It sounds a lot like an alcoholic planning how to drink only two beers a day.)
Anyway, based on the idea that the lowest /played are in the 4-day range (4*24=96 hours) and 2 hours a day times 5 days is 10 hours a week, that would be around 10 weeks. More time for not optimizing everything, possibly less time with the accrued rested XP.
Is it worth it? Depends on what you want out of the experience. If you have the idea you’re going to be raiding Naxx the day it’s released and decked out in T3 quickly, or you’re going to be ranking in PvP making a name for yourself, you’re setting up unrealistic expectations. If you just want to immerse yourself in the world and enjoy the game, you’ll do better.
Lastly, if you’re serious about this being an addiction issue, I’d highly recommend adding parental controls to your account and setting allowed play times or amount of time. It’s far too easy to be in the middle of a quest or really close to dinging a level, and not want to stop, then find yourself still playing several hours later.
Also, the great thing about Classic is that all the content will stay relevant for the whole game. It’s not like retail where when 8.2 comes out and all of a sudden the previous raid tier instantly becomes irrelevant.
Just enjoy the experience on two hours per day. There’s no rush on missing out.
I’m not sure if that’s the case. Naxx gear is pretty over powered, and since PvP is ruled by PvE gear, it will become less viable to participate in PvP content later in the game. There’s also the issue of being undergeared when guilds are actively clearing the phases.
Do you have a highly addictive personality? Why let this therapist control your life and what you want to do? Play the game for 2-4 hours a day and you’ll be okay bro.
Yes, yes I do. When I played Vanilla and TBC it pretty much ruined my life.
I played 2 hours or so a day back in vanilla cause I was playing a different mmo too. Probably averaged out to 15 hours a week really.
In three months I didn’t hit 60 but had a load of good times.
It’s good to play in guilds with people who can only put in those couple hours imo, they enjoy the time they have more than the grumps who play 10 hours a day. So they are more likely to group up and have fun. Not just grind for the sake of grinding their empty lives away.
This. And then this, again.
You really gonna let some over paid hand holder dictate your life?
Play as long as you want, it’s not like you’re out banging dope in the back of a broken down car.
There are worse things you could be doing, and having fun in a video game isn’t one of them.
that is only kind of true. the blue and epic pvp sets are really well itemized for pvp, especially for casters and some of the set bonuses are really useful in pvp versus naxx bonuses. most top pvpers will have a mish mash of mostly pvp gear with some BiS pve pieces filling it in.
absolutely wrong, near the end of vanilla more people were pvping than raiding because that was all that was left to do, after you have all the gear you want from raids, and there are no more raids coming out, what do you do? you pvp and/or gear up alts… and once they are geared up, you pvp. pvp is the end game.
Classic isn’t like Retail, it isn’t a rush to max level, you’ll have lots of great moments even in your earliest levels.
2hrs a day*30days = 60 hours, 25c per hour of entertainment, sweet.
Depending on the rules on what counts as 2 hours you might want to try rolling a healer or tank, don’t want to spend 45 minutes in an LFG chat channel + travel only to go over your 2 hour limit before getting to the end of the dungeon.
edit: Also about Naxx gear and whatnot, it’s going to take many months before we get there, and it isn’t like Naxx is going on farm for >20% of the playerbase. You’ll be at a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to PvP, but you’ll still be able to have an enjoyable experience (especially if you 19 or 49 level twink it).
Don’t let this person tell you what to do, I mean if you’re already at four hours, is a fifth really going to hurt?
Better yet, close the blinds and remove clocks from your walls- if you have no concept of time, it doesn’t matter how long you play.
Or, compromise.
Play two hours on Horde, and two hours on Alliance.
You can hit 60 in 2-3 months and you’ll have some nice rested XP each day.
??? What.
It isn’t really relevant the rate at which you play. That was a weird sentence.
You’ll even be able to raid the end game raids if you find the right Guild. Unless your time schedule is 20 minutes a week there will still be guilds raiding everything by the time you get geared.
Instead what matters is how well you plan those two hours and your commitment to that plan.
That’s hilarious