What people don’t understand about WoW is 3 simple things.
- It’s not marriage.
You don’t commit to it.
The more new and better games you play in your limited playtime, the more positive effect those games will have. The more you focus on WoW, the more it will adversely affect your life.
Up to the point of being stressed out
- WoW has limited content
Every game has limited content and WoW is no exception. WoW tries to fake limitless content by making you grind via repeating the same action over and over again, but that’s just waste of your time.
You do a couple of zones you like, run a couple of bgs/dungeons/raids you enjoy, you are done, you move on.
Maybe, if it was good, you comeback for a month next expansion.
Once you understand a couple of months is enough for each exp, you will feel less stressed about the whole thing
- WoW devalues you
Unless you do cyber sports or you are a streamer, thereby profiting from the game, you will most likely find WoW bringing very little value to you or even taking value away from you.
You pay for the exp, you pay for sub, you waste your precious time, you endanger your health by prolonged pc sessions and developing gaming addiction, you loose social status, and, worst of all, you gain 0 knowledge/skill as being good at wow=being a patient grinder
Therefore, if WoW does not even bring a little value by making you relax, why the hill are you playing it at all?
TLDR. Treat WoW as an optional seasonal event, you might skip or might not skip this year, not as a daily routine. Play newer better games. Blacklist anyone, who expects anything of you within the game, especially commitment to this game lol. Dont buy expansions, that have borrowed powers or high gear ilvl dispersion in your chosen branch (PvP/PVE/crafting). Wait for 2nd patch to kick in, to see where the shipwreck(current exp) is headed.