I want to know how you other ADHD people play and enjoy WoW, do you raid? M+? What kind of classes do you play? Any advice as someone learning about their ADHD?
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ADHD to sum up is you struggle to concentrate on the moment and what your trying to and instead your focusing and thinking about everything else going on. as for what to help multi task trust me helps a ton also i do casual pvp 2v2 arena’s bgs and such.
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I enjoy hunter, warrior and paladin. Im a person with severe ADHD and i hate it.
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i mostly do whatever suits me at the time. i am easily distracted however and in the middle of doing something i may find something else that i want to get done and run off and do that. my 10 characters can atest to that.
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Yeah I generally multitask in everything I do. Having 2 monitors to always have something playing on the second one is one of the best decisions I ever made to function.
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Sorry to hear that. Isn’t there forms of medication now to help with that?
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They do but not enough as i hope. Even right now im distracted by the sound of my cat running.
Help but not dissipate. They can provide enough to allow someone to be productive but there is always a balance and it’s never gone.
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Sorry to hear that damn not good.
Not him but it’s something you live with. My myself I have to keep a fan producing white noise on at all times, even with headphones oun to drown out sound outside of my room so I don’t get easily distracted.
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I know that feeling my cat comes to my room everynight I retired and licks my head my hands till I let her under my blanket for a cuddle and pat. Plus she is my alarm clock in the morning right on 5am she starts ( feed me feed me wake up ) but I love her to death. lol.
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The only problem I have had was that void dragon boss in nyalotha- she flies out vision and I would always forget she even exists. No matter how hard I tried I’d be focused on the mobs I could see in front of me. If the raid leader was calling it out that would help, otherwise I eventually just rotated my camera up so she was always in vision, and that helped.
Other than that, and jumping all the time in raid (I can’t listen to the raid leader explain mechanics lol I just wanna know what needs to happen on what marker!), ADHD doesn’t really effect my WoW gaming. Issues around the game - yeh, you might find WoW very addicting, ADHD brains need constant little dopamine hits, and WoW has that in buckloads. We also like to hyperfocus, so it’s easy to lose whole days or weeks to a wow hyperfocus.
Me too, me too 
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Also forgot to mention DK.
Usually nothing because I get distracted and mess around on my phone lol
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i can’t afford 2 monitors.
I have ADHD but i rarely get distracted when I’m doing progression, mostly because I enjoy it or used to enjoy it.
Defective healer reporting in (though I play other roles too). Mythic raiding (usually cutting edge), +15 keys (but generally not much higher), and more obsession than I should probably allow 
I play every class , and can never focus on just one main. Besides that I have no problem doing raids or m+
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I’ve been playing WoW for years with ADHD. What I like about it is all the activity keeps my mind focused UNTIL I see an ore node or herb then I break my attention and race over to them. When I do that my gaming buddy yells “SQUIRREL!” every time, we both laugh but I know it bugs him. 
I don’t sleep well, so it’s nice I can play the game any time of the day and other insomniacs are also around to group with. 
Some times in raid with my guildies I’ll do my ADD thing and being looking around or messing with a guildies instead of listening to the raid leader 
Overall, I think it a great game for those off us with ADHD and insomnia! 
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I don’t. and if you have untreated ADHD WoW is likely the worst game for you to play since its designed by people who’s only purpose is to fish for whales like we ADHD personalities tend to be.