So back in BC and WotLK I loved raiding (I didn't raid much in Vanilla due to being a Paladin and hating my forced raid role.) It was a rush, it felt rewarding and I couldn't wait to do it every week.
Then I took a break through most of Cataclysm and when I came back it never felt the same again. It felt tedious and like a second job, though not much had changed and I still loved the idea of raiding, I couldn't put my finger on to what had changed so I stopped and just did LFR in most of MoP and WoD.
Legion I tried getting back into it again and found a guild to raid with through EN and ToV, but then I stopped enjoying it again. (This is also around the same time that I abandoned my old account and started this new one.)
Now in BFA I've only done 2 of the three wings of the current raid in LFR before losing all interest in it.
Like I'm enjoying releveling but it bothers me that raiding has stopped being something I enjoy. I don't know if it's just an age/time thing or if the fact that I just don't make connections in this game like I used to, and don't have a crew of people I enjoy playing with like I used to has effected my enjoyment of raiding.
Has anyone else run into this feeling? Like raiding just stopped mattering.
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11/12/2018 10:00 AMPosted by LesheHas anyone else run into this feeling? Like raiding just stopped mattering.
its all about the gear rewards.
Killing bosses used to be incredibly satisfying because the reward would always be an improvement. Because of that there was a lot of incentive to put time in with your guild and work over those hurdles.
Now my main is like 370 and i have maybe 2 heroic boss kills. There's not much left to do in there.
The key is you’re doing lfr. It pretty much sucks on lfr. Uldir has been pretty fun from from normal through heroic for me but I really like my raid team. Find a guild and make friends and it will get a lot better.
Yep.
Wrath was great for me for a multitude of reasons. The story drove me to care about everything we did, I really had to kill the Lich King. Cata ruined raiding for me because I couldn't seem to care about the story or the main antagonist (a large dragon, really?). So I started doing other things to play... raiding is now secondary if not further down the list of why I play.
Wrath was great for me for a multitude of reasons. The story drove me to care about everything we did, I really had to kill the Lich King. Cata ruined raiding for me because I couldn't seem to care about the story or the main antagonist (a large dragon, really?). So I started doing other things to play... raiding is now secondary if not further down the list of why I play.
11/12/2018 10:00 AMPosted by LesheLike I'm enjoying releveling but it bothers me that raiding has stopped being something I enjoy. I don't know if it's just an age/time thing or if the fact that I just don't make connections in this game like I used to, and don't have a crew of people I enjoy playing with like I used to has effected my enjoyment of raiding.
Has anyone else run into this feeling? Like raiding just stopped mattering.
It depends what you're looking to get out of it. From Wrath until the end of WoD I raided with a cutting edge guild that actually supplied both the top tier raiding I wanted and I loved the social aspect and hanging out with the guild. It was a perfect fit. Then some people left, then some more people left, and I realized one day while doing another mount run in mythic HFC that I just wasn't enjoying myself and was hoping for a reason to not raid every week, whether it was overtime from work, people not showing up, my computer exploding, etc.
Then I raided suuuuper casually at the start of Legion. Like 1 night for a couple hours, doing normal and maybe a boss or two in heroic. I did this with just my close friends (and some friends of friends) and they all stopped logging on, so I ended up quitting again.
Then me and my best friend got the itch to come back, so we looked for a guild and found the current guild I'm in and it's a perfect fit. We're more casual, not cutting edge, but enough progress to keep me entertained. And I genuinely enjoy logging on and playing with the people I raid with a couple nights per week.
I personally can't imagine raiding with people I don't get along with and don't like anymore, not at this point in my life. I disliked plenty of people I raided with in my cutting edge guild, but that just came with the territory. Now, it's way more about the social aspect than the "WE GOTTA KILL THE BOSSES" aspect.
I went through this some time back. For starters, post Wrath, raiding was intentionally scaled to be more difficult for the 10/25 merge, which killed off a lot of extra folks who would normally be around for raiding. It made raiding less of a social interaction and more a freaking job, which I disliked.
Then there's just the simple fact that I neither have the time or desire to commit to a fixed raiding group, just to continually grind for the same stuff over and over and over. Why? Seeing the raid content and experiencing the lore is definitely important, but I could give a crap less about banging my head repeatedly for that extra 1 point of item level.
Some folks enjoy that, but personally, I don't. I'd rather spend the time doing fun group activities that we all enjoyed.
Then there's just the simple fact that I neither have the time or desire to commit to a fixed raiding group, just to continually grind for the same stuff over and over and over. Why? Seeing the raid content and experiencing the lore is definitely important, but I could give a crap less about banging my head repeatedly for that extra 1 point of item level.
Some folks enjoy that, but personally, I don't. I'd rather spend the time doing fun group activities that we all enjoyed.