I stick with Retail but I don’t do mythic+ dungeons. In fact I actively avoid them. More often I’m either running normal mode or doing WQs if I’m not fretting over character creation and looking for a new home server.
I also don’t PvP. so I’m left wondering, do I actually enjoy playing WoW since I don’t do the stuff that is important to Modern WoW or am I simply stuck in the past of WoW but too afraid to roll on classic and stay there.
I’ll never grasp how people can enjoy playing wow without actually playing any of its current content. The games seasonal structure is literally based around a new m+ season, a new pvp season, a raid, and an open world rep farm zone. If you aren’t actively interested in any of that, why pay the monthly sub fee? I’m sure there’s other games out there that you would find more interest in.
I mean, even open world questing… it’s been basically 2 decades of the same generic “go collect X amount of item”, “go kill X amount of this mob”, while not actually providing any form of challenge or rewarding experience.
Not bashing you at all, just really don’t understand how people find enjoyment not playing what the game is actively designed around. Would be like playing grand theft auto but not liking to do crime
I mean, could be a challenge run. But that’s what I’m worried about.
People have kind of scared me away from high end content.
Nothing wrong with the way you like to play.
You got 20 years of content to play through.
I have a frind that likes to play that way also.
She only plays up to DF intro then rolls another toon and starts over.
I’m certain she knows the placement of every stone in all the old zones.
You could try leveling some characters through Chromie Time if you prefer the Retail playstyle. I like trying to get loremaster in different expansions just for fun.
idk that’s somethin only you can answer.
Yes but if you’re having to fundamentally change the way the game is played to look for fun, it’s probably just not the game for you.
Personally I don’t see any sustainability for WoW the way their seasonal model is. They don’t have the time to add anything new and gamechanging to the game with constantly having to stay ahead of the 6 month seasonal curve of recycling the same philosophies. Casual players don’t have a fulfilling high replayability form of meaningful content, and hardcore players will inevitably burn out over time with the demands of playing at a high level and real life stuff falling behind. The games being developed for 1% of the playerbase
I play like that too. I enjoy it. When I make a new character, I tend to get all caught up in some old grind or something and sort of finish it off before starting anything else over. Or I don’t! And I just get to max level and start over again. I don’t care, I have fun.
I do also do mythics sometimes though and occasionally stick with a character for a bit.
Yes.
The “important stuff” is whatever you actually enjoy, and since you enjoy WQ’s and normal mode stuff, then you’re actually enjoying WoW.
You are not beholden to what the Devs intend you to do.
GTA Online and job mods exist.
Might be a lil off subject but…
I found this kind of funny today i had a friend buy dragonflight, i was stoked, finally someone who wants to play DF that i know in RL… So I go over the hits and misses of DF explaining the new UI, the profession system, dragon riding. Then I tell him wotlk exists now and we can also play that, he literally refunded DF. LOL.
I have quite a few RL friends that rather play WoTLK, I think the new game confuses a lot of returning players… Forget new players people that are casual and come back to subscribe in down time or out of boredom, DF is confusing!
And now that my good friend is playing WoTLK i might just stick to WoTLK i just hit 2k with my arena team to and i can play 5v5 with all the RL friends.
Speaking of Classic… Are they gonna go to Cataclysm before they call it good? I’d like to do Classic Cataclysm.
I could have sworn that when classic first came out I was told, multiple times, that it was for elite gamers only and that anyone who puttered around in world content would not be welcome there.
It’s funny watching the sales pitch shift.
For the same reason I’d rather play CoD4 or Ocarina of Time. Just because it’s new and current doesn’t make it good. BOTW is just not as good.
The creators are so out of touch with what some of us enjoy. They only care about the future themselves. It’s a business to them. They resented a community that wanted classic and yet here we are.
Dwell not not on the past, always reach for the future and yet learn nothing from the past to alienate your future.
It’s quite ironic selling nostalgia for us to return and then disparage us for not being fully committed to all new content, raids, dungeons and grinds.
I play my way. It’s not wasted money.
Without keys and raids, I’d be pretty bored of WoW.
Simple test. Uninstall WoW for a week. At the end, if you feel no impulse to reinstall, then you probably were not enjoying it and found something more engaging 
Eh, I’ve actually done that. Though the urge tends to strike after a couple months to a year. Like I’ll see a WoW content creator and be like “Ooooh, that’s nice.”
Well the difference is you’re a good player. I step into high end content like that and I so much as sneeze wrong I’m told to unalive myself.
And that’s ultimately why every single one of blizzards games is a shadow of its former self… honestly there is not a single one that is thriving currently. Hardcore WoW classic is still new, but let’s be real, a few months from now it will be on a major decline as well.
It’s not just blizzard though. It’s gaming in general… every company out there now knows they can milk their player bases with half finished games, promises of fixes or content coming after release, and the same boring recycled content stolen from other games that have already failed in those genres anyways.
Everything now is about how long a company can keep you playing the game through timegating and massive grinds as opposed to their players actually wanting to log on for their own enjoyment
Does not playing for three weeks qualify as that?
Sure. No shame in not playing a game you are not enjoying. We get enough of that working a job. Games are meant to be enjoyable.
So you are suggesting I should leave?