I just stop logging in and eventually unsub.
I will say, this expansion is so bland that I’m seriously thinking of taking a multiple expansion break for the first time in over 18 years. If this uninspired garbage is what we are going to continue to get, I’m not sure I want to bother with the next expansion at all lol.
In bfa the thing that made me quit is when I ran literally 10 m+ dungeons and never got a single piece of loot. Not a small upgrade, not a sidegrade, not a downgrade. No loot items appeared in my inventory ever. I saw a rogue with gigaforged M2 weapons (both) and full greens otherwise. I didnt play bfa until SL prepatch after that.
I quit for quite awhile in BfA because I just wasn’t having fun anymore and the stupid systems and endless hoop jumping just annoyed me.
If you were to go I’d miss you greatly Lia, but I’d rather you took a break and came back reinvigorated like I did than lose you for good. 
My general rule of thumb is that if I am consistently ending a session unhappier than when I began, it’s time to stop playing.
I honestly believe you’re overthinking this.
If you come home happy to log in…do.
If you come home wishing you could log in to a different game (or just thinking, “meh, I guess I’ll log in and grind”), it’s time to stop.
If you ever find yourself thinking, “I want to play WoW today,” you reactivate your account and play. If you don’t think that, you stay gone.
When I take breaks it’s been because I found myself drawn to a different activity (sometimes, it was IRL obligation and other times it was a different game, a different hobby, etc) and I didn’t want to be in WoW.
I have come back every time when I sit there thinking, “I miss WoW.” So I log in and play, and I get that immersed feeling we get from a game we’re enjoying again.
So here’s the thing: if you’re not having fun in WoW; if it feels blah or meh or even worse, like a job…take a break. You don’t have to designate a length. I’ve left the game for years and I’ve left the game for weeks. It’s entirely what you feel. WoW will still be here when and IF you feel the urge to come back.
I highly recommend Hogwarts Legacy, highly-modded Skyrim, and other narrative-driven single-player RPG’s for reigniting a love of gaming in the genre.
It happens to me in every MMO and every expansion. It just depends on when. I think the only expansion I played non stop was Wrath.
The shortest was Shadow lands, which I lasted a month maybe.
I set a goal for me here in DF to get normal Vault cleared, and to get KSM. I am a casual and pug mostly so it’s been a challenge, especially since I wasted the first month on a different class.
Anyway, I’m starting to think I’m nearing the point where I drop off. In just short of KSM, but I start applying to groups and just give up after about 2 minutes where previously I would persist.
I don’t do the world quests, the rep, and I just find myself drifting over to YouTube to watch cooking videos.
its getting close for me , spending 2 hrs in lfr and getting outrolled multiple times by ppl that already have better gear is soul destroying , ive gone from getting 1/2 prices of gear per raid in SL to getting nothing for multiple weeks at a time.
when the game is free for me (i have enough gold to buy tokens and have done for almost 2 yrs ) and i still cant be bothered to play something is seriously wrong.
If I start questioning whether or not I like something, then I don’t actually like it and I just drop it.
By this point you could probably just skip LFR and raids…you can get the revival catalyst and make the whole 4 PC at this point. Just need to farm a little M+ to get pieces.
I go and play new games. Your brain is probably tired of knowing every single thing about the game and is craving something new. It’s like listening to the same song everyday, it’s going to get painful. It’s perfectly okay to go and try something else. Learn some new lore, explore a new world and such. Whether you want to stay subbed while you playing something else is completely up to you. Make the best financial decision for yourself.
If something like a form of flying that will only be in this xpac, or a woman NPC putting clothes on are among your reasons, you’ve already made up your mind. You just don’t realize it. There’s 2 ways to play this game. First is just try to have fun and ignore ingame politics, their sexual orientation, and whether they are 100% fully clothed, all that jazz, just play the game. The other way is to focus on every negative thing about the game someone points out and let it consume how you look at the game. Which do you think is more fun?
I think people actually rush too much and except things to be completed fast and simple.
Personally, I don’t that after playing this game for years I know even if the content only last a few month til it moves on it is worth the journey nonetheless ,and find out in your own pace so burnout isn’t that much of a problem.
I found out climbing interesting the other day so every in Azeroth is different ans should be ,spontaneity is the spice of life wither it be drag through a map or some unexplained crab popping through an ice hole (I know blizzard was playing with me).
I’m gone for good, just riding out six month subs I picked up not long before I logged out for the last time. I realized I was doing the same thing to prep for DF that I’d done for SL and for BFA before, both of which were expansions I came out of feeling dark and exhausted. I enjoy M+, raiding, and PVP, but I don’t enjoy what any of them have become over the last few expansions, and I had to accept that wasn’t going to change no matter how much “do better” I put in.
Interestingly, at least to me, is that the very last straw that broke my very stubborn camel’s back was trying to get the leggings for the Necrolord construct transmog set.
Switching to other games has done wonders for me both psychologically and, importantly, cognitively.
If it weren’t for my weekly raid group, I would have quit. DF did a lot of things right, no systems being the biggest, but it does not feel like WoW to me at all.
DR isn’t that good, esp after playing around w the OG feature in GW2. Blizz should have enabled both forms of flying. Besides, limiting everyone to 4 or 5 drakes is beyond lazy.
Don’t worry, they’ll have another 6 month subs promotion when it does ran out.