I need some advice.
I’m older and am retired due to strokes and other health issues, and have a ton of time on my hands. Therefore, I do not do things like raids or mythic plus. I have played since 2004 and have mostly enjoyed every expansion, including Shadowlands. Now, with Dragonflight, I am finding my enthusiasm to play dwindling quickly.
As as mostly solo player, I no longer feel any incentive to hunt rares, gather, craft, or do pet battles. Certainly, finishing the campaign is still a goal, but what’s left after that?
World quests are getting nerfed, and complaints aside, that leaves me with little to nothing to do while I wait for new ones. It is what it is.
Then there’s the promised “catch up gear” that was supposed to fall just shy of LFR in ilevel. Is that still coming? When will that be? When LFR open, later, sooner?
Now, I’m not complaining. Things change, even video games, but right now, I see little incentive to do anything.
Has the game run its course for me?
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Same boat. Came to the conclusion it has for me. It is what it is. Good memories though.
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Everyone has different things that appeal to them, but I personally like going after achievements. Even going back and getting old ones can be fun, and it can get you back into older content/stir up a lot of memories.
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Medically retired myself and have been going solo since Legion. For me, the game is about the journey. Once I get a toon to max I will see what is available for it and if I care to do it I will, or I will just bring another toon up. If I don’t feel like it, then I move on to another game until more story content drops.
Currently swap between WoW and Lotro.
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I feel like these posts are fake and made by elitists trying to hold onto their previous old ways of mmorpgs being ultra hardcore.
If you peel away the layers of the reason for this post it reveals a few things
- Make things harder to get again.
- Don’t give people freedom of choice. Take choice away / more time gates
Etc etc. I could go on and on.
You alone can decide that. 
It’s classical concern trolling at it’s best.
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That’s exactly what I do. LoTRO 66.7%, WoW 33.3%.
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What are you talking about? I’m not troll. My question was sincere. I’ve never been a raider. How do you get wanting to make things harder again from what I asked? Check my raiding history in my profile if you want proof. If anything, I’d like things to be easier to get, or at least more things to do that someone in my position might be interested in.
Why is everyone so quick to point the troll finger. I’m just trying to decide if I’m done with the game or not, considering my lack of interest.
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You should take up gardening instead of playing wow
Most people that are loving it are profession lovers, love aimlessly riding on their new dragon, playing pokemon snap, and loremasters. If you dont like these things then waiting for 13th of Dec is the best bet. Im in the same boat as you and the game doesnt exactly feel great but im glad others are having a good time
You might enjoy achievement hunting, you only have 9000 so there are a lot of fun ones left to explore.
There’s also professions and farming older raids for mounts and transmog.
I would have never guessed that Daily World Quests were the entire game for so many people.
Safe travels OP and I hope that you find the Daily World Quests that you are looking for somewhere out there.
Apart from the quests that reset twice weekly, there is renown pushing (various ways to do that for each of them), rare hunting, crafting/gathering (more involved this time with hunting knowledge points and artisans mettle, experimentation and so on), fishing (best fishing expansion since Legion), cooking, alts.
I am also a solo player, don’t do group content. I have one at 70, another at 68, another at 64 and another at 61, and I haven’t scratched the surface yet of things left to do. I still have lots of side quests everywhere, I have renown grinds to focus on once I have my various alts leveled, I have a few profs I am going to level this time because it’s more engaging to do so, I am spending time with fishing again (which has been a sidelight for a few expacs now) and so on.
There’s really plenty to do in this expansion for solo players – it just isn’t in the form of every day quests, because every day quests create a dilemma for many players (not just or even primarily raiders) in terms of leaving content on the table if they are not done daily. If your main content is daily quests, you will not like this change, I get that – but Blizzard had to choose one way or the other, and one of the selling points of the expansion was backing off of daily to to lists, and so that’s what they have decided to stick with.
You don’t want to raid, or do mythic dungeons, you don’t want to pvp or do open world content because it isn’t as rewarding as the things you refuse to do?
Sounds like you already made up your mind and you should quit. There are plenty of things to do in the game even outside of those like level alts, achievement farming, professions, mount and xmog runs.
Maybe make some friends so you don’t have to play alone? Funny thing is none of those things appeal to you as you already said. Go ahead and quit if you aren’t having fun why play.
@Rita, there’s a reason I only have 9000 points, I just don’t find them engaging, especially if they’re in older content.
@Demography, not with the new system. While not hard, its unnecessarily convoluted. And I don’t care that much about mounts and mogs.
I’m a story-driven person, more than anything. I’d play single-player RPGs instead, but I have mobility and reaction time issues that get in the way. Honestly, I suck at them. So, I’m not sure what my options even are at this point.
Invasions will be out next week. Thats suppose to be the solo player gear grind.
Are these the ones I was talking about, where you get the tokens for near LFR gear?
Those people were probably silently playing the game and enjoying the content they liked to play. Now that it’s changed they are speaking out. Many others don’t want the daily resetting WQs because they begin to feel mandatory which is something Blizzard is trying to avoid.
TL;DR you can’t please everyone.
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