what?
You assume it takes anxiety to keep someone from grouping?
Trust me. Im the least fearful, most unanxious person on this planet.
If anything Im wondering if Im entirely dead inside.
I dont group up because I have enough real life relationships to last me a lifetime, many of which i can barely stand as it is.
I dont group up quite frankly, because people in this game annoy me.
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I have chronic anxiety in game and irl. I used to be able to raid back in tbc/wotlk but it developed around the time cata came out and since then I cannot do organized raids. Mythic+ is also very hard for me as the pressure gets to me easily now.
I stick to lfd/lfr for that content now.
Why are you asking?!? is it that obvious? omg!
I have anxiety in that Blizzard won’t give me my weekly 460 gear for logging in and /praying to the dark portal because I didn’t raid goldshire enough or that I didn’t poach enough alliance players to join the horde because of my overpowered racials.
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I have anxiety, however it’s not what makes me want to avoid pugs - I just don’t want to deal with them most of the time. I enjoy chilling solo and doing whatever comes to mind.
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For me timers trigger stress. I can deal with them when I have to. But I have no wish to deal with them when I am attempting to play a game to unwind. I want to be lost in the game I play not constantly reminded of a timer. Everything else I can deal with, but the timers murder my fun.
I don’t have anxiety with grouping, but I do have anxiety in M+ and raids, which means that the entire time I’m doing those I’m on edge and I feel like crap even when it’s one of the other party members that screws up instead of me.
Not sure precisely how or when this changed. I used to deal with high pressure content reasonably well in my teens and early 20s, but from 25 up through 30 my tolerance has dropped through the floor.
Yeah, same here. Even if nothing else were changed but the timer becoming hidden (or at least de-emphasized) I think it would go a long way toward reducing stress in M+.
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I had a few psychs like that. One wanted to study my sleep habits because of night terrors and panic attacks when I slept. One wanted me to exercise to help me forget being molested and raped 40 years ago.
I’m old enough to not just say these things easily. When I was young admitting you had issues was enough to get you beaten up and causing more issues.
Either way, it doesn’t stop me from grouping. I haven’t really figured out why I don’t like to start groups. I have few issue IRL with talking to people or leading meetings or public speaking.
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I would like it if the broke it up into 4 separate timers between the mobs to each boss. Then give a break in between. Short spurts is ok. But being that tense for 20-30 min’s in a row hurts. It hurts enough for me not to want to go after it’s rewards at all.
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That’s a really good idea that had never crossed my mind before. Smaller timers would give a very different feel while still being challenging. If esports demands a monotimer, maybe that can be something that Blizz switches on for tournaments.
EDIT: Smaller timers would also give nice breakpoints to deal with RL things that come up without botching the run.
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Here is an honest answer since I am trying to break free of my social anxiety! Even posting here is making me feel uncomfortable, but here it is.
I suffer from social anxiety and my husband has panic attacks. We decided to play Warcraft because our issues affect real life relationships (we have no friends). Within a short time, we found out just how toxic the game community could be, and being new players with anxiety it laid a path for our playing experience since that time. We created our own guild to hide in and do everything we can undermanned. We won’t group up with people because when we were noobs, if our DPS was lower or our heals weren’t enough or we missed a taunt we’d be insulted and kicked instead of taught how to be better by veteran players.
Recently, we have discussed joining a community or looking for in game folks who would like to fill a dungeon team with us so we can complete the mythic+ we want to do (we can do half of the mythic dungeons with just us two but mechanics stop us for some). However, we always stop at saying we will- but we won’t. We enjoy the competitive nature of the game and the grind, but get anxious in group content especially if they want to talk or get on discord.
I know that this perhaps is not the game for us as it is an MMORPG, but we really love Warcraft.
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The only thing in-game I get anxious about is when it’s time to buy azerite gear from the vendor, hoping it doesn’t have crappy traits.
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Diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Panic Disorder. Hardly do group stuff. Ever. I was trying to sign up to do the heoric Athari Warfront and didn’t even accept the invite because I was too nervous to perfom in a large group. I know I would start panicking if someone called me out. I eventually got it done… so yay?
Mythics? For me? HAH. I can only dream
I really want some of the heoric and mythic sets from legion raids. Anxiety is too high to join a transmog run. Stuff ain’t fun man.
But I love Warcraft. Loved WC3. Love the lore. Love the books & comics.
I get anxious in large groups because it is impossible to watch all angles at the same time. If my kids are present it increases 10 fold.
Edit: oh wait, you mean in game. Sorry, nothing in game makes me anxious.
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Lol.
Everyone in life, yes everyone, suffers from anxiety.
No label, no “condition”, no pills to take…
It’s just part of being human.
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I don’t have it-- I just don’t like people.
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I get so confused by where the generational boundaries are and have given up on it.
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In IRL I had such bad anxiety that I had difficulty talking in groups in public- and usually limited social gatherings to 2 other people.
However, premade BGing in vanilla forced me to get on ventrillo and to call out incs, leading me to join a guild, leading me to raid, leading me to lead raids and premade BGs.
15 years later, I’ve testified on certain policy areas to state governments, done radio, podcasts, and public talks.
The old version of WoW, where you had to group up with people and talk to them to get ANYTHING, is part of the reason why I am a functioning person.
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I have an ~OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS~ of PTSD, acute generalized anxiety disorder with Severe Depressive Episodes™ and mild OCD. I’m also a Millennial, so do with that what you will.
I do just fine pugging until someone starts getting nasty with me, though. I usually power through whatever content it is, but I’m sitting there at my desk literally crying while I do.
If anything, I would say my conditions help me be more understating of others. I have some friends who are ruled so badly by their anxiety disorders that they don’t feel comfortable pugging. I try to go with them whenever I can to reassure them and stick up for them if something bad does happen.
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Mewcie, would you like to team up for some content? Would it help to have someone there who’d go to bat for you? 
Let me know, maybe we can work together!
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