No. I’m not in a hurry to advance my character. There are a lot of people who do everything, get BiS in a couple weeks, and then complain about having nothing to do or about the Vault being worthless for weeks on end.
Zereth Mortis is fun and very lucrative for gatherers once you get flying.
Casual PvP, especially Epic BGs, are great fun as long as you use the /ignore feature freely to keep the whiners and ragers off your screen.
Basically, I relax and do what seems fun that day. I don’t feel any urgency to run specific things I’m supposed to do or that my guild wants me to do. I don’t have to be online at a specific time like it’s my job.
Pft! I always felt left out of end game stuff. I’m not a power gamer, I’m a casual who works quite a bit so I log on when I can. I can’t maintain a regular raiding schedule and I don’t have the time or energy to devote to learning a classes key-mashing for max DPS/Heals/Etc.
It’s okay though. I like the story and I hop into dungeons when I can. I just have to accept that the endgame is not designed for players with my bandwidth.
The only thing I ever feel left out of is Blizzard’s consideration, since their focus has been for a long while now the end game content and stuff you mentioned.
So when I see a patch release that only mentions those things, I ignore it and take it as affirmation they really don’t understand or perhaps more accurately don’t care about some of their loyal customer base.
Well, you did ask when the last time Blizz let solo players get tier without raiding, there is your answer, and it was a good system imo, raiders got their tier quicker by virtue of earning the currency quicker, but gave solo players a path to tier, and a big incentive to do dungeons.
Honestly I don’t understand why this current Dev team hasn’t tried this idea of giving a currency from dungeons, preferably the Cataclysm system, was much better.
I agree.
I used to raid and when mythic+ came out that first year I did that.
Got up to 11’s and got fed up with doing the same runs over and over and over and the higher you climbed the worse the attitudes got.
That’s when I hung up my shield on my warrior that I had been tanking on for over a decade and now when I tank on him it’s just open world stuff or timewalking.
I deal with the public all day every day but I’m paid to deal with their attitudes, if WoW wants me to tank and put up with the toxic behavior in instanced content they can pay me.
I don’t do any of that content because I only solo. So… no?
Level alts, fish, archaeology, explore, farm legacy raids/dungeons that I can solo, hunt rares, farm weekly world bosses that drop mounts, role-play, etc.
Yeah, when I get the gear to actually do something I’ll be looking into getting on peoples discords and communities. I like the guild I’m in right now. I don’t talk to them much because I just spend most of my time getting better at the game right now and getting to a place where I can keep up with a mythic 0.
Uh, yes you could, was only 2 pieces until ToC and ICC then you could buy the sets from a vendor with badges, then in Cataclysm, could buy 2 or 3 tier pieces off the valor vendor.
Could earn 2 badges of Frost a day from Daily Heroic.
Earned VP from daily heroic and could go to VP vendor and buy a few tier pieces
Do I feel left out? Absolutely not. Only I get in my way.
What do I do? Any darn thing that might interest me. This does include some occasional group content when I have a bunch time and feel like doing it.
I only feel left out from the content because LFD/LFR aren’t rewarding and haven’t been all expansion. In previous expansions I felt like they were worth the time, I don’t have that going on anymore. Especially timewalking.
I’m a reward-driven player. I like doing something with my time in this here video game and feeling like I accomplished something at the end of that time, even if it’s just a step on the ladder.
Some believe that you should only get that feeling from this game by pushing challenges, but I disagree. That’s not why I game.
Mostly I do the stories here and wrap up reps and stuff. I play mostly on my ally DH these days and I’ve concluded her progress as far as I feel, so I’ve been working on a Dark Iron Dwarf Warrior when I log in, so I can check out that quest chain that’s coming in 9.2.5.
I’ve already run out of things to do this patch so I’m just playing super casually when it’s not D&D nights or when I’m not playing FFXIV. The sub’s only $15 so I feel like I get my entertainment’s worth when I do subscribe. It’s about to drop though, so I’ll probably dip out once I see the 9.2.5 stuff.
Nailed it! When season4 hits, this will be the first time since i started playing in 2005, that i will let my sub run out and not return. IF DF looks good, maybe, but if we (solo players) get shafted in that to, i am done with WoW, and all Blizz games in general.
After all these years of never unsubbing, i just can not believe what these devs are doing to us solo players. They could have done something, ANYTHING for us in season4, but it does not look like it.
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