If I hear one more person draw the line to how this game is casual due to Everquest I’m going to freak out
Yeah we all get it Everquest made 20 years ago was really grindy, and N64 controllers were made for 3 handed lobster people
I’ve been back on WoW for a month now and I’m a casual player and my list of things to do is still huge
As a casual who has returned to the game I still don’t have flying
I still need to unlock higher ranked essence
I’m far behind on M+ mechanics
I’m not up to date with my cloak
I still don’t have a good corruption item
I still need a new weapon
Now I’m going to get a barrage of people who haven’t unsubbed all xpac explaining to me how they have a family and still managed to get flying by doing nothing but logging on and doing dailies for months on end and no other content
IMHO, I think its a mixed bag and will depend on how you personally define casual.
Generally speaking, even as a casual player you’re going to need to put in a few hours a week to get anywhere
Anything over like M5 is probably starting to pull out of the casual range and branch into intermediate…
Same with raiding if you dont have a good guild with a solid raid structure you’re unlikely to move past normal
But the main thing is people immediately go “well if your doing less than I am your clearly super casual”… while they drink their 4th redbull on a friday on their 10th wipe of the night
It’s casual in that the game offers many options for different types of people and their play styles.
I just returned recently myself and I still don’t have flying either. But it’s not preventing me from working towards it or even getting it at all.
I haven’t even done a essence yet and it isn’t impacting my game or enjoyment at all.
When it comes to Mythics, I was never a fan and I refuse to subject myself to having my “worth” based on some raider IO score that I couldn’t care less about. Will I miss out on mythic gear? Absolutely. Will it affect my play and enjoyment? Absolutely not.
I’m up to date on my cloak given the current content that I’m doing. Don’t cry over gear you haven’t gotten yet.
I don’t have a good corruption item yet either. Shoot, I don’t understand this whole corruption thing yet so… meh. Whatever.
The gear I have, armor and weapon and other stuff is sufficient for what I’m doing and what I’m working on.
Maybe the game isn’t as casual for you as you think it is because you are looking at things as a hardcore playing returning from a long break. OMG you have so much to catch up on and so many goals that need to be done now now now. Are you sure you are a casual? Because from everything I see in your post, you don’t act like one.
If you are a casual, relax. If not, then get out there and stop wasting time posting on the forums! You got reps to grind. Dungeons to spam and whatever else you hardcore people do. Min/Maxing and theory crafting stuff, right?
Oo, which elite WQ/mob has a 100% guaranteed rank 3 stars? I’ll go kill this one time and get it. Because… surely, based on your post, I wouldn’t have to farm corruption. Surely, I wouldn’t have 100’s of pieces of non IS corrupted gear, right?
I honestly could care less about being an over achiever in this game. I don’t even do Mythic+ and am still having fun. Honestly don’t even have time to do a mythic raid.
Why do you need to have all those things? I mean if you are Mythic raiding you need them but then you aren’t casual.
You don’t need cutting edge if you are casual so just play what you can that’s all I do. I find if I even try pushing Mythic raiding I end up quitting. I think it’s fairly well catered to all types at the moment.
Prepare to freak out. World of Warcraft was absolutely launched with the premise that there was a new game in town that was far friendlier to the masses than EQ or Asheron’s Call, with far gentler penalties in place and far more hand holding.
