Just like in real life you need to manage your time
Don’t get sucked into PvP or the AH. As a person with limited time, you can’t afford to waste what you have.
If you must PvP limit that time to a percentage of your overall playtime. That way you still have time dedicated to achieving your goals.
As long as you keep putting time into your goal you will keep moving forward.
This is true so I say that to say that the large swath of quests that I have remaining are not doable. I don’t pvp and that guy above that said it too idk what he’s talking about - but the event and just awesome nature of stv cuts it off for quests is what I am saying. I need other options basically for the limited time, really leaving SM spam which suuuuucks
I’ll be honest… I play at work lol. So in my ~8 hour work day I play WoW between 1 and 3 hours of it. I raid 2 nights a week, sometimes 3. If I wasn’t able to play during my work day, I probably wouldn’t play WoW.
The rest of my life is baseball practice with my son (game on Saturday), soccer practice with my daughter (game on Saturday) playing other online games with my older son, and playing DnD with my older daughter. I also try to spend quality time with my wife several nights a week, and try to go out on a date at least once a week. Then we try to keep our weekends packed with as much family time as possible.
So yeah, if it weren’t for my playtime during work, I’d just quit WoW.
Exactly- thank you
Well I feel like I am wasting your time.
It sounds like you know what you need to do.
Make your daily goals manageable. One level per day… one bar per day.
Hit that goal and feel good.
Don’t let things get out of balance. Keep your game time limited so that RL doesn’t suffer. Even if that means a slow grind.
You can do it!!!
And get off these boards!!! They suck time like a vacuum
when i was younger (in my 50s) I was able to get by with 3 to 5 hours a sleep, now that im in my 60s… i find yes 8 hours of sleep is very much needed. I wish I would have forced myself to get that 8 hours of sleep when i was younger, im feeling the lack of sleep over my lifetime now.
No youre not wrong and posting here is a time suck - I am just curious how many others are like me that if they have things going on in their life that were 20 years ago very typical like social activity, work, family time, etc - can those people not only make it to 40 but also endgame raid and it seems like unless you spam dungeons or burn midnight oil that it’s not likely.
While its ultimately a moot point since at 60 things reach a terminal spot with the level - I was just curious if they had any stats around it.
also for the record, i only have 1 level 40 (which is my ranged hunter) I get in my twice a week raid of gnomer. I do have 1 other alt (mage) that i got to level 35 but I dont play as much as I would have 10 years ago.
My kids are grown up and married (out of the house) and I still work as a salaried engineer (so I do get to work from home often) but i spend at least 50 hours to 60 hours a week working.
When I started playing this game it was one of the most busy times of my like. The war in Iraq was in its infancy so I was super busy. I had a some big breaks where I had a bit of time. I would log on and grind. Mind you this was vanilla so the XP was slow going. Without the bonus you had to grind to fill gaps.
Worst part was my guild. They were a blast but I didn’t know how the game worked. I spent a lot of time running dead mines over and over. I also spent a ton of time at the AH.
After helping contractors all day, I was happy to enjoy whatever time I had in Azeroth.
TLDR: For me being busy kept me focused. I appreciated my free time. Now as a tenured prof I can pretty much do whatever I want. I have a ton of time so I tend to waste it.
When life is boiled down to its basics it is better imo. You tend to get more done with less time.
My biggest fear is that ST will be progressively harder than Gnomer.
BFD in 45 minutes? That was great. Gnomer in 1 hour? Perfect.
These raids are just casual enough for me. I’m not looking forward to getting back to the 2-3 hour mark for raiding.
I’ve been 40 for…2 (3?) weeks now. I would have liked to stay off the treadmill a little longer; work on alts, wrap up some ‘at max level’ questing for fast coin.
Oh well. Q2 starts April 1st, so gotta get a move on boosting that Quarterly MAU number to report at the end of the quarter; shareholders gotta get paid, yo.
I don’t think gaming is for you.
gnomer in an hour is great time. They changed gnomer for the raid version compared to the version i remembered back in the day, i think when it was a normal dungeon an hour clear for that was still a pretty good clear time! haha
I hope they dont “shortcut” sunken temple via direction of the dungeon flow and lop off sections to make it a stream line raid zone.
No, it is. No life gaming is not.
No life gaming? Getting to 40 and doing a 10 man raid once in 146 days is not “No life gaming”.
This entire post has to be satire no one is this naive.
OP: I don’t have time to deal with deaths caused by other players killing me. I wonder which server is right for me?
PvE: Nope.
PvP: Perfect.
Wtf why do people kill me on a PvP server?
As I said, I cannot level in stv because it burns too much time before april 4th - so I have to SM spam if i want to make that deadline… not that I hate pvp… i love pvp.
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As for this - nah. Its no life gaming; if you’ve got a family, social life, a good career job, sleep, and workout to be healthy then youve got roughly 5 hours a day every day to play.
In that 5 hours thats whats left to go hang out somewhere, drive kids around, use the bathroom, walk a dog, etc.
Like the dude above said - he has to play while working to get to 40 + raid within the time limit. Which btw wasn’t even part of my OP - I am wondering if there are others out there like me and my friends and it sounds like yes there are.
If you don’t have time to enjoy the game, give it a miss. It isn’t good anyway, and it sounds like you have a fulfilling enough life to spend it doing more worthwhile things, unlike many here 
I stopped playing long time ago…
SoD was fun at first, but from my gaming experience, I can recognize a sinking ship when I see one.
This project had everything to be a success, and if they can’t make things work with this kind of freedom, they can’t do anything worthy anymore.
I hope you get your fun, I had my fun.
If you’re choosing to do other things with your time then that is completely your choice.
The fact that you are constantly being condescending to people whether intentionally or not - the fact that you chose to type “good career” instead of just career for example - tells me you are either completely trolling or absolutely insufferable.