What do you consider “casual” playing? Some people seem to think playing at least 2-3 hours a day, every day, consistently is casual. While others, like myself, I deem casual as being “I don’t take the game seriously, it’s not a competition, and so I play when I want.” That could mean 8 hours one day and then not play again for a week, it could mean only playing 1 hour or so a day or every few days.
I am also a solo player and not tied to any guilds or anything like that, so perhaps my definition of casual is different, but I was just curious what others deemed “casual” play.
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Relaxed and unconcerned/a person who does something irregularly.
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2 hours a day and 5 hours on friday/saturday.
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10 hours or less per week IMO.
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I don’t concern myself with casual/semi HC/HC definitions outside of a raid environment, so in a raid environment:
You do:
- Attempt to get most of your pre-BIS
- Enchant all of your gear with 95% best enchants (3 stats vs 4 stats on chest)
- Get most base level consumes
- Get most world buffs (Songflower is more than casual)
- Have two raid nights a week, sometimes less, maybe 2-3 hours each.
You don’t:
- Always clear all content no matter what, but you sometimes do.
- Use the casual tag as an excuse to suck horribly and never improve
- Use the casual tag as an excuse to not get pre-bis and enchants
- Care about parses
- Care about speed runs
- Have a level 20 summoning alt
- Have shifts assigned to you to camp out world bosses
- Have a second level 60 for split raiding
- Have even the remotest chance of seeing a world boss the entire time playing Vanilla through TBC
- Play on a private PTR like a hyper nerd for literally any reason (this is cringe even amongst hardcore guilds)
I’m sure someone could add more.
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I have no logs because I’m so casual. I’m not even ‘hardcore’ enough to be a ‘gray parser’.
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Part one. No - I do take the game seriously, I play Hardcore mode afterall 
parts two and three, I fully agree.
Signed a casual HC player
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WoW is a game where playing it 10-20 hours a week is considered casual for a majority of the players.
Any other game and casual is a couple of hours a week.
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I think a lot of players have a weird warped perspective on casual.
The other thread about only being lvl 17 made me realize that when there were a lot of people commenting that even if they were casual, there’s no way they’re only 17.
Personally, someone who logs in every day but doesn’t play a ton each session I wouldn’t consider casual but to a lot of the WoW players it would be.
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Yeah that’s why I asked, lol That thread got me thinking about what people consider “casual”. One man’s casual is another man’s hardcore.
I’m not always leveling/grinding, but I do farm quite a bit and work on my professions. I enjoy playing the AH and contributing to the economy, so in my world, that is still playing. “Playing” shouldn’t have to be relegated only and specifically to grinding/leveling/raiding- and if you aren’t doing that you aren’t actually “playing”.
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If you didn’t hit 60 the 3rd day then i’m sorry to say, you’re a casual. It’s the law.
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it’s all subjective, but a good rule of thumb for now is casual = anyone who started the anniversary realms on day 1 and still isn’t 60 yet 
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I consider myself casual because I don’t compete against other players. I don’t think it has anything to do with how much I play. I play a lot but I don’t care about world buffs, flasks, enchants, etc. I play for fun and relaxation while listening to music or watching videos on my other monitor.
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I think the broad sense of casual is someone who doesn’t care about mininaxing the game as much. For example, casuals go to dungeons, but they don’t care about doing it in specifically spell cleave groups or what have you. Or they might not necessarily pick engineering for PvP, because they don’t like the profession, where’s a hardcore person would consider lack of engineering as gimping yourself or even throwing the game.
Personally for me, I play casually if I don’t stress myself to meet certain performance. There were times when I played hardcore when I did something that put a strain on me for the game performance.
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This whole thread is about your own subjective definition of casual, so everyone can define it how they wish.
Personally, I do not consider myself “casual.” I’m only level 37, but I have over 120 hours played because I enjoy the journey rather than the destination. I’ve been running all over the world maxing out quest reputation and diligently leaving no stone unturned.
It’s just as justified to say that I think it’s casual to ignore 90% of the experience and just find the most efficient way to reach max level using an addon that literally tells me what to do every step of the way. Bunch of level 60 casuals.
Is this a serious post?
I’m not being rude, I genuinely can’t tell. It’s crazy to me to think that playing 20 hours per week is “casual”, but curious if people actually agree with this.
To me, casual is a combination of both having limited and irregular play time. Probably anything less than seven hours per week, and no consistency or predictability on how those hours are distributed.
I guess taking your time to 60 and probably not worried about raiding at all.
Maybe that’s just me.
for me casuals are lfr to early normal raid players for pve
but even then the majority are rp world quest oriented
I don’t know. I suppose it’s a casual mindset. Not actively being competitive is casual, imo.
I think that those comments are rather lacking context. But I would also say that as someone who was going to try Anniversary realms casually, and then decided to forgo playing them altogether by the second day, I have a level 18 character.
