If you can’t really take a break, try a different class and/or race.
You can level up super fast these days and mixing things up can freshen up the game.
Also try the starter ability for talents, (you can always opt out at any time.) And try out the games suggestion for which spell to use. Again, you can always opt out of that or ignore it. But it helps give a baseline, helps with getting used to the cd’s rotations, etc. for a class. Especially if you do switch.
I don’t always follow the suggestions, but I’ve found it’s helped me to become a Much better player. Consequently increasing the Fun aspect.
I suppose, but it still feels like there is something missing, I think maybe it’s because I don’t really care about the stuff I am getting, then you combine with the fact that I am not necessarily enjoying the content I am doing to get it, it kinda burns me out super fast.
Like, sure, getting a piece of gear with your BiS stats or that really good trinket for your spec feels good… For like 2 seconds, then you equip it and forget you even grinded for it, or at least, that’s usually how it goes for me.
I don’t know, I think at the end of the day I just don’t really like MMOs anymore, hell, I find myself struggling to enjoy most games for the last few years, so definitely an issue on my end, just feels bad.
You’ve got to take the same effort as what you put into the game and put that into curating a group of people to play with.
Join community discords. Talk to people. Run with them. TALK to them before, during, and after the run. This is the crucial step. WME (before the owner began abusing his position along with his cronies) was great for this and actually how my current guild formed. We were strangers, then began running content together and chatting in voice, and then, a year later, created the guild in time for TWW.
And ultimately, I assume you have less time to play like many of us, schedule game time with these people. “Hey guys, anyone down to run some dungeons at 8 tonight? I’ll tank, x is gonna DPS. Anyone else?”
Then I logon at 10 of, invite everyone, and off we go. Easy runs and I log off 90 mins later with 3-4 dungeons done.
All the social issues players complain about here are completely removed if the player puts in any effort to meet people to play with. But it’s the hardest part of the game and players don’t like doing it. I’ve had 0 issues with the abandon feature. Nobody has bricked a key by leaving.
The final piece of me learning to enjoy the game was cutting off the fomo crap. No I don’t care if I hit all my goals in 2 weeks or not. I play when I can and do what I can and that’s that. End of the day, I’m playing wow to spend time with my friends. Wow is just the medium.
There is nothing wrong with taking a break or playing another game for awhile.
As far as in wow goes I find making a goal helps a lot. One reason I’m always active when new content drops, is that there is a definite goal. I realized modern wow doesn’t really feel like it has this as much, just treadmills of stuff to do. Some players need a goal that has a fixed endpoint to not get burnt out.
I feel ya. This is why I’m not in a guild right now. I would love to run a group in M+. I’m sure I’d have fun. More so if I was familar with who I ran with.
With this guild there’s about 7 people that log in outside raid. Five of them do keys together. No room for us.
No. Wow was my second mmo after asherons call 2. The guys I played that with didn’t come to wow. I started with a now ex. I played mostly with pugs. Pugs were ruined for me around mop. I was mid 20s and out of college.
Outside opinions are important to me.
I’m unemployed and recently widowed. I got all the time, just in the wrong time zone for US players (CEST currently). Being ADHD and socially awkward talking to people doesn’t work easily. It’s why guild searching is hard.
I get the points people are making. This games niche for me has always been a social life replacement. I meet people easier on the internet than I do irl, though I’ve definitely met many in game folks irl as well. Did a long weekend in Krakow a few years ago, 8 of us from FFXIV in an Airbnb. Was great.
Maybe I should take time off. But I have a lot of time to deal with. I’m cleaning up the estate and moving back to the US after, ice got maybe six months left here and there’s no point to getting a job here so I’d like a game to play with him, but this is his game. He doesn’t want to play anything else.
Before you do, I suggest an agility Druid. I use feral in raids and dungeons, I don’t top the charts on single target, but I am a trash master with the ability to hit 10m DPS when the cool downs are used in the right way.
In T11 delves guardian is a beast that rarely gets into trouble. When trouble does happen it’s usually my fault for pulling that extra pack. As for rare spawns in the open world, I haven’t found anything that can kill me, yet.
My gear gives me a crit heavy bear, and a haste heavy cat. Not optimized by min/max standards, but it gets the job done. It’s not like I’m going for world firsts anyway, just having fun with a Druid.
Or maybe as others said, a break from retail is in order. Soloing MoP classic does have an appeal, and with no finder, you find groups the old fashioned way.
Whatever you choose, I hope you find the joy again. Good luck!
I played from Vanilla to Wrath too and I played very competitively during those days.
Then I became Casual due to lack of play time. Becoz of this, my gear level is behind to many players. When I compare myself to other people, I compare it to people of the same ilevel. I never compare myself to people who plays this game like there’s no tomorrow. So far, I doing farely close or better on people of the same ilevel.
It’s bad when my chosen Class/specs are far from flavor of the month. Even if my ilevel is equal, my performance still lags behind. But I know WoW, there are really lots of noobs. So far, noobs can never outdps me. Tank can never outdps me. It doesnt happen unless the Tank is 50 ilevels above me.
As Casual, my goal is quite simple and easy. I believe I could get KSH or AoTC even if I have chosen the worst specs. I have the whole Season to do it. I think I am doing good enough like I have already completed KSM in 3 weeks like the previous Season. I would stop playing if I cant achieve those easy goals anymore. But so far, I think I am doing good enough.
The final raid patch means I’m close to unsubbing, at least for me. If I didn’t have MoP Classic right now, I’d be out. Take breaks and come back when something new is coming, works great for how you feel about WoW.
