Level character thinking I will main it > Start gearing them and progressing through content for a while > Get bored > Repeats cycle by leveling another character to max level.
I did this in Legion, in BFA and done it in Shadowlands again.
I am just looking at my warrior now and I can’t even begin thinking about having to level to 60 again, getting to max renown again, getting to layer 8 of Torghast again and progressing through Bolvar’s questline again, and getting my character geared on top.
This game really messes up with your head. Can’t quit it, but I can’t enjoy it either. sigh
As I said, addiction. I got nothing else to do. While I got off lucky with getting a paid leave due to very specific circumstances around Corona, I liked working, I had something to keep my mind distracted. WoW is simply the only game I find myself being able to open up to do something, even if it’s just running in circles around Oribos.
Don’t think about the end, live in the moment. Just play, every class does the same, press button do damage, press button do healing, press button absorb damage. If you like running laps around oribos, dalaran, stormwind/Org do it. The game has something for everyone.
You’re on the spiral. When you make a new character, you get that “new and exciting” feeling with them, but when you reach a certain point, that feeling wears off and you get bored.
You just have to find something you enjoy and stay with it past that wall of boredom. Your main isn’t going to give you that new and exciting feeling forever, but you gain nothing by character-hopping constantly. Find a main, and lock down.
You’re on Moon Guard (at least that character is), so have you tried roleplaying? What about downloading Mogit and looking for unique, really good transmogs to pursue? Perhaps you can look ahead in Shadowlands and find a mount you badly want (for me, it’s the M+ meta mount).
Setting goals like this has always helped me refocus when I start spiraling.
If you aren’t having fun then maybe you are borderline addicted and should re-evaluate what you are doing.
I agree I’m kinda the same. But it’s 'cause most of the classes kinda are not that interesting to play. And knowing it’ll collect dust makes me not want to do it again.
Maybe if I had a guild that I did end game with would help with goals and open up options but it is what it is.
You don’t need to quit if you don’t want to, take a break. Put in the effort to find something else to play or do or a new hobby.
Why not play a different game for awhile? Playing something new might break you out of the Wow cycle in your mind and you might be able to come back to it with more enthusiasm.
100% agree I miss the good ol days like during WOTLK hell… Anything from Classic up to MOP was fine, I remember making hundreds of character in MOP and since BFA making alts is like a chore/torture.
If there’s one thing I can’t do is live in the moment, never managed to do that in my life, much less in WoW. All my time leveling I am always thinking of my plans when I hit max. And I don’t really like running in circles, I just struggle to find the motivation to do anything else at certain point.
Yeah, I noticed that part, I never managed to stuck around in a guild because I always found myself missing on raid nights and such due to being too bored to play my most geared character. Missed a lot of progression despite being in many good, friendly guilds.
But still, I don’t even know what I enjoy… Been a while since I found myself having genuine fun doing I guess anything and it’s just a bit in my face in WoW, when I start running a M+ and get bored on the first 5 minutes or after killing two or three bosses in a Raid I just wanna quit and go do something else for an example.
I tried RPing, but I am kinda always unhappy with my characters and while I have RPed before, including on DND sessions and such, I just can’t find myself very interested in doing it on WoW for whatever reason.
As for transmog… I usually just stick with simple things, usually “lore-abiding” according to my character’s backstory, same with mounts, so I never really farmed those things and I don’t really have much interest in doing so. I don’t know, not many things I feel like setting up goals in WoW, since I have a bad tendency of butchering them.
“Ah, this xpac I want to join a mythic progression guild!” Joins one, then quickly loses interest before getting more and more reserved until I /gquit and things like that.
I am a bit on the same boat on the class situation. WoW doesn’t exactly have my favorite class fantasy, which would be something like an Eldritch Knight/Battlemage, on top of that I personally am not a huge fan how disconnected from the lore most class design feels, but still, I tried joining an end game guild and I just couldn’t… I don’t think I am really good at interacting with others and between my horrible connection, my lack of motivation and me just being all around horrible at the game, things get really easy to auto-sabotage.
As to do something new… I wish I could man, but I can’t, WoW is basically the only reason why I’ve been leaving the bed for quite sometime now, surprisingly enough.
Because I can’t find myself really having “fun” or at least getting a soft dopamine boost from other games.
I am a Legion baby personally, I just love this game’s world at the end of the day, probably why not being able to play like most players do upset me so much.
It is, been diagnosed for quite a while now, but it was different with WoW, I made friends here, I used to have so much fun and then it suddenly became like everything else. I don’t know, I just miss how it felt when I was knew, now I don’t play a mage thinking “Oh, mages are so cool, I mean, look at their lore and how amazing their powers are” now I play this game feeling bad that I handicapped myself by switching from Night Fae to Venthyr despite me not doing any high end content.
I don’t know, WoW just ended up losing it’s taste for me, and it was the one game I didn’t want this to happen.
Sounds like you need to start PVPing maybe not arenas cuz its the same stuff, but BGs are hella fun and each one can be different. If you want a wow buddy let me know Eraellor come over to horde bleeding hollow ill run bgs and do content with you all day
Man, I don’t really know how to PvP, at least not with my favored class(Mage). I can’t exactly put my finger on it, but the learning curve on casters is so damn higher than melee, on my Paladin was mostly about stunning on the right time, healing my partner and such.
On my mage is getting interrupted, zerged and such… Arenas are not enjoyable on this character, but then again, I just suck at PvP. Thanks for the invite though.
I play the game in the same way where every play session I want to switch characters (I have every class). I like to flesh out the transmogs across all characters and gear them up to only a satisfactory level. My general end goal every expansion is having a roster of characters ready to switch into (for PVP or PVE) almost like the character selection screen in DOTA or Heroes of the Storm.
That all being said, something has slightly changed this expansion. The fact that we can buy PVP equipment with honor has me wanting to PVP with a consistent character more this time which is fun and how it was originally.
Another thing that changed is I made sure I spent a lot of time choosing the very best class for me to play this expansion, taking into account viability, fun, covenant flavour, class ability, end goals etc. This has made it easier to hold to one character for longer.
I think just accept that you enjoy switching a lot, don’t take the game too seriously in this case and play what you want to play at the time, that likely means ignoring any serious end game raiding to be able to keep this habit up.
Great gameplay (IMO) and the BEST voice acting (also IMO) and it actually tells stories where you can make choices, which then actually matter to the story.
I picked it up when I burned out on BFA and really enjoyed my 2 months in Tamriel.
Yeah, I keep telling myself how it doesn’t matter that much, but I don’t know… I feel like I just unconciously started “try-harding” despite there having no need to, which cost a lot of my enjoyment of the game.
Back in Legion, when I mained a Guardian Druid and was taught how to tank by my first guild leader ever, I had no fear of failing a M+ and ruining everyone’s run, nor did I bothered that I did not had my BiS legendary until 7.3 came out… I just enjoyed playing but that feeling went missing after a while and I got no idea how to get it back.
On the topic of talking to someone that can help though… I doubt anyone can, I tried psychologist, psychiatrist and their mind wrapping words and meds did not work, I shouldn’t be depressed, I got everything I ever wanted, I have a good life and yet I just see no desire to live it and it annoys me so damn much, so many people actually suffering out there and I am just this stupid entitled person. I don’t know, maybe there is no point in trying to get better, perhaps you simply don’t deserve to feel happy.
I tried man, and I absolutely love the Elder Scrolls lore… But, I don’t know, it just didn’t hook me, I don’t know if it were the graphics, gameplay or whatever have you, but I just didn’t find myself having fun, which is a shame too, I wasted a lot of money on that game and it’s expansions thinking that I would enjoy it. Did so when Summerset launched and likewise when Elsweyr launched.
I mean, I kinda have to rely on pugs for that though and umm, pugs are less than ideal… I usually find myself stressed out more often than not using LFG.
Also, internet connection doesn’t exactly help me. =|
