After deciding not to worry about m+ and raids anymore, I can just log in and do what I want to… feels good. It’s actually why I resubbed for 9.2, so I could just play the game.
No pressure to try and be the best at whatever role, no timers to stress over, no watching people die to random raid mechanics. So much less stressful to just log in when I want and play how I want.
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There are plenty of Alliance raid communities that auto accept community members but vet actual pugs
They run the whole range of content from Normal to Mythic
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No.
Exploring, questing, gathering, crafting, mogging, collecting (I finally got Ashes of Al’ar last week, woohoo!), gain rep, the list goes on and on!
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The only time I feel “left out” or get a bit pissed off is when Blizzard releases Mythic Only versions of dungeons, as I really dislike pugging and prefer to use LFD to queue for everything.
Can’t say I’m a fan of the LFR delay either, but otherwise all I really miss out on is more powerful gear and mythic sets that look a bit different (Which me and my sister can farm by duoing old raids 1 or 2 expacs later).
I resubbed recently with the intent on doing the new LFR, but decided to go back to classic 1st and get my toon to 60 ready for wrath classic.
When i do go back to retail (which i will) i’ll prolly do the new LFR and mess around in some random PVP, finish off story content and then just level some alts until I’m bored and bounce back to FF14 or SWTOR.
I feel like the games a bit confused about how it wants to handle casual players… most of my playtime now is limited to off-peak meaning I rarely run Keys with friends anymore and I’m not one for for pugging via the group finder.
Anyway, I find it strange how I can gear my characters to a higher ilvl by flying around ZM looking for Treasure and Rares than I can via LFD/LFR.
Obviously the most difficult content should reward the best gear… and in the M+/Raid/PvP Scene that mostly holds true (mostly). But when it comes to gear for Casual players (or Catch-up for returning players) Solo, open world content is more rewarding than running LFD/LFR.
Personally, it doesn’t really make sense to me as World Content is quite boring.
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No, not really. I’m at that point in my WoW career where I only run group content when I need it to complete a quest. And if I can just put off that quest until I can solo that group content myself later on and take my time with it, that’s even better.
As for what I do with my time playing, I level up my army of alts in the open world, work on professions, grind reps, work on my collections, quest and request in zones I enjoy, etc.
Hear, hear. Playing solo means doing whatever you want whenever you want and at the pace that most suits you that particular day.
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The system that let you get one piece of gear every 5 weeks wasn’t a good system.
The gear disparity is lower than people think.
ZM for example awards normal raid level Loot and you can get full tier without even stepping into the raid.
As of late, I’ve been unlocking allied races. I’m on a break from it 'cause Kul’Tiran took a lot out of me, to unlock lol
I certainly don’t feel left out.
There’s so much that can be done as a (mostly) solo player that expands the character, beyond merely gear. Reps, achievements, PvP, professions and a mountain of old content, a newly made character would take many months of playing to get through it all.
I need only gear new toons up in SL to a moderate level (thankfully, since I count SL as the most boring expansion in Wow’s history), and then I ride off into the sunset to start tackling a near literal mountain of old content.
WotLK, and Cataclysm, do heroic dungeons, get badges/points, go to vendor buy tier pieces.
I don’t feel left out of anything. LFR works perfectly fine for raiding. Mythic+ is something I truly detest and do not desire to take part of in any way. At no point in time should everything just be handed out to people to appease the idea of the “solo” mindset. I f you choose not to put in the work to acquire the rewards, you should absolutely no be able to obtain them.
I miss raiding but my current schedule doesn’t allow me to do it and I’ve been denied for most low level M+s I’ve applied to. I’m currently leveling a few alts, very slowly. Once I get to 50, I just can’t do SLs content anymore.
i suppose i feel mildly left out in the sense that blizzard favors M+ type content over everything else, so there isn’t as much for me to do besides collect things. which leads to me unsubbing quickly and often to play other games
hope that’s what they’re going for
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I don’t feel left out in any way.
tried a couple mythics in BFA and tried a couple more in SL, just not my scene. Haven’t found raiding to be that much fun either for awhile now. Occasionally will pvp on alts for compleation of the intro SL stuff .
I did alot of raiding and pvp on a previous account and honestly just lost my taste for it.
Now I just play for me collection transmogs, trying out classes I didn’t touch before,farming mounts and working on Stay Classy.
All in all I’m having more fun now than I did before.
Collect transmogs, mounts, run some PvP or a LFD occasionally if I feel like actually progressing. I’ve been level 56 a while though and feel no need to move forward yet. Nothing end game so far has interested me enough to push me to finish.
M+ is the exact opposite of what I want out of dungeons, LFR will probably be pretty fun. If Heroic dungeons were actually used still and had decent ilvl gear comparatively to other activities I’d push to 60 quicker. Right now if you are a solo player there’s just nothing to do other than mogs and mounts, especially if you are a healer.
I guess there is that ZM place, but that just sounds like more painful healer soloing experience tbh.
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I haven’t logged into the game in months, but when I was playing it was mostly just farming mogs, mounts, doing ZM, and the occasional LFR. I’m able to log in, any time, and do the things in WoW that interest me. So I don’t feel left out in any way.
I probably could raid again if I wanted to, my schedule is pretty stable and I could set aside the time, I just don’t feel like it. But if I got back into a guild with good friendly folks, I could do it.
I do enjoy farming old content… for a while. But eventually I get bored. But that doesn’t last either. Sooner or later the WoW bug will bite again.
I may log in tonight and farm some old content, who knows? The thing with me is that I tend to have stretches where I feel like logging in to MMO’s, and I also have stretches where I feel more like spending quality time with my Switch and my PS5. Right now, I’m mostly in console mode. How long will that last? Who knows.
This is the only expac that I have hardly done any dungeons and have done no raids in: Not even tourist-mode raids. I have been enjoying walk-up RP in the game.
I know how the systems worked. I played back then.
My, my some folks really know how to create deviations from the OP topic. lol
I do not feel left out of anything. We have a family guild and play for the pleasure of the game. We can’t field a full raid team (25). We’ve done a few 10 person raids, with little success. I am a casual but serious player. I can join a raid group or dungeon group whenever I like.
I put more hours into the game than anyone else in our guild. I love the story lines, the scenery (for the most part), questing, achievements, exploring, profession grinding, pet collecting/battles and character development (race/specialisation). I do not pvp, that is an area in which I have little to no interest.
I don’t think WoW was ever meant to be a one-person game, it was meant to be a fun, social, team building game where individuality was not lost, but not it’s focus. From the beginning up until Cata I enjoyed raiding, dungeon crawling and progression. I was part of some wonderful guilds that truly helped individuals grow while maintaining a team atmosphere. Cataclysm destroyed much of my interest. Storylines were broken, guilds were fractured over direction, progressions were torn, and Azeroth had fallen into ruin. The game was no longer fun. That’s when I left the game. Came back after Shadowlands had been out for about a year.
i choose not to do these things…so it doesn’t bother me in the least.
Part of me wishes I was good enough to to it, but I am realistic enough to know my limitations, and time constraints. So, I just choose to let others grab that glory.
I am a mount hunter, so I hunt mounts outside of current raids/dungeons…do old stuff…I will get them eventually.
Now days, working full time, I am lucky to log in for a cpl hours a day - 5 days, and then I get 1 full day of play every week.
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