OCD WoW Players Unite

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Do you have any particular OCD or specific things you do either before playing, during questing, while PVPing, before you log off, or even after logging? Maybe others do it, too. Share here, so that we can enjoy each other’s’ uniqueness or commonality. It doesn’t have to be 100% diagnosed OCD, and can just be something fun you do every time you play. For me:

  • Before I launch Bnet, I always refresh my addons in Twitch, for both Retail and Classic, even if I only plan to play one or the other.
  • I almost always jump onto, or off of, stairs.
  • On a new race that I have not played before, I /silly after every two or three kills until I feel like I’ve heard them all, then I do /flirt.
  • I have so many characters that I use an Access database and Excel spreadsheets to track things
  • in Bagnon, I keep hearthstones, gathering tools, and other character-specific things at the top of my bags, but anything meant for my Guild Bank goes at the bottom.
  • I have my own Alt Guilds on Hyjal (Alliance), Proudmoore(Alliance, mainly abandoned), and Terenas (Horde), all called Chosen Few, and used to have the same guild name on Runetotem, Garona, Onyxia, and Stonemaul (all transferred to one of the first three).
  • On new characters, once the War Board is available, I take all of the starter quests, and travel the world, deciding where I want to go. I pick up new ones as they are available.
  • As I unlocked the Class Hall mounts, I would log onto all of my characters of that class, updating their PerCharacterMounts addon to only use the Class Hall one. Low level druids make me sad, since I can’t fly up to the trainer to set their future flight form as the new owl.
  • I greet people in LFD dungeons.

I might come back and add more later.

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Yup, what I have is SSD - spreadsheet disorder. :stuck_out_tongue: I don’t use Access/Excel, but I’m a spreadsheet fiend.

I have a spreadsheet tracking all my realms, characters, levels, current xp and rested, professions, which cloth they need for donations, what they’ve completed of the various holidays/DMF, and much more.

If I log out and have forgotten to update a character, I log back in and do so. I don’t care that it won’t have changed by the next time I log in, I want the date updated now.

I’ve had a very particular layout for years, and for a long time I didn’t use Bagnon because it messed with how I saw that. Now I use it because I learned to reverse bag order and break them up.

Hearthstone is very top left. Profession tools are next, including fishing pole, then bandages, then buff food, then normal food/water, then scrolls and potions. If I have an herb bag, soul bag, or quiver, it goes above the hearthstone’s bag. The bag just above the backpack is quest items.

I also have a whole routine any time I create a new character - auto loot on, all action bars showing, move UI around and handle settings that their defaults annoy me, then log off and copy the chat-config from another character. (LOL, maybe Prat has a profile thing that would do that for me, but this is a years-old habit.) I might get an hour /played before I’ve even accepted the first quest if I get going on the TRP3 profile.

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I think DMF is what caused me to start this thread.

Also, look up EEN’s for the chat setup. I couldn’t get Prat to do it, and EEN’s has been amazing.

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I check Angry World Quests for good rewards when I get up in the morning. Is that OCD? My mousepad and keyboard also have to be positioned perfectly.

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I have CDO. It’s like OCD, but in alphabetical, AS IT SHOULD BE!!!

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I have permanently declined to ever use bag addons, but I tediously arrange my bags in roughly the same way since actual Vanilla. All of my gear must be in the fifth bag.

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It does but it’s pretty new. https://github.com/sylvanaar/prat-3-0/issues/80

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I avoid rested xp as much as possible by logging outside inns and cities. This is so that my character doesn’t level too fast and get deminished rep gains from quests. And yes, this is an issue when you complete EVERY possible quest.
All I did was quest, no grinding or farming, and I hit 60 long before running out of quests. I’m still working on the last few that are hard to get groups for.

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My buddy admitted his OCD tick in Classic is hitting that little “Organize Bags” feature or whatever it is in Bagnon—every time he opens up his bags lmao.

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Compulsive Disorder Obsession

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I forgot about this one. I absolutely hate that button for my own bags, but I use it obsessively in my bank, and even have an addon that does it in the Guild Vault. Gotta stay tidy. :slight_smile:

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I disable that feature WoW-side because it messes up my organization. lol

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I realized another one while in Darkmoon Faire. For the gathering professions, I have a very specific route that I follow, especially for characters who have both Herbalism and Skinning. If someone gets one of those nodes first, I have to completely rethink where the other nodes are.

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Thread full of people who have no idea what OCD really is, otherwise you wouldn’t be so flippant about it.

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Just because someone is not diagnosed with the most debilitating case of OCD, does not mean that people don’t have compulsions, and that we can’t have a discussion about it. Assuming that people are being flippant says more about you, than it does about the other people in this thread.

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For the entire 13 years ive played wow my hearthstone and all consumables are kept in the second bag next to the backpack. To this day this organizational quirk has been my first order of business when making new characters. It cannot be otherwise.

And i also update or check for updates on both versions of the game on twitch prior to launching the game everytime.

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You can have peculiarities or need to have things a certain way because it’s satisfying, and yet still be flip about the actual medical disorder OCD.

I like my things neat and in order in my bags and double check my doors are locked at night too, and they are not the compulsions or intrusive, anxiety driven thought patterns that never stop and nearly ruined my adult life and for which I am now heavily medicated.

OCD isn’t cute, and I think it’s okay to ask to acknowledge that.

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Did you read the thread? Yes, they are being flippant.

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Sorry. That wan’t my intent when I started this, but I see what you mean. I know that some of us truly feel like we have borderline compulsions, but not to the extend of a diagnosis. I think I took the response personal, when your original comment might have been aimed at someone else.

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I obsessively organize my bags, and refuse to use the bag add-on because it makes a terrible mess in there.