How do you stop Burnout? 🔥

[Miralynn-moonglade]

Brilliant game. Can’t play as makes me feel sick but absolutely hilarious.

[Aphandra-terenas]

@Gilvion-ravencrest

But I want to play more but just don’t have that umpf to keep going

The main thing about burnout is that you have to play less.

I can explain my approach in two ways:

• If you play for upgrades, do what people said right in the first posts. Think about what upgrades you can chase, what does it take to get them, are there chances involved, all that.
• In my case, I just play for fun. Sometimes I end up chasing a progress bar, sure. Some examples:
  • In GW2 I have no specific pursuit, except of course personal story. So I just jump to a zone, complete a couple map objectives. I stop at the waterfall for a minute. I actually view the vistas.
  • In WoW, this could mean just a couple quests. In Classic, literally. In retail, it usually amounts to a single map story step.
  • I stop as soon as I feel grindy. Either there is a feel of urge to proceed, or there may be impatience.
  • In Anniversary, I made it a hard point to do one dungeon a day. That’s all. (60-120 minutes of activity, so.) No stress about quests, levels, gold, or anything. Way back I did the same, one level a day, although it gets problematic by 30.
  • Time boxing is also fine. Say, log in, set alarm for 60 minutes, wrap up and log off.

[Gilvion-ravencrest]

Then I’ll do my best not to xD

@Alýsea-azjolnerub

the new game or borderlands 2 dlc

was it’s own game to my knowledge with it’s own dlc and stuff but I only grabbed the base.

@Miralynn-moonglade

Brilliant game.

Damn now I’m excited and don’t wanna wait till I can stream it.

[Incisor-moonglade]

@Gilvion-ravencrest

Thankfully my addiction phase of playing WoW is over

Ah, yes “I can quit any time I want to!”

[Alewín-argent-dawn]

@Gilvion-ravencrest

So I ask you, what is your method for stopping or avoiding burn out?

I just take a break for a bit - it’s healthy to have variety and you should never feel guilty about not wanting to play rn.

Plus, keeping us engaged and not burnt out is Blizzard’s problem, not ours. If they want us subbed 12 months per year, it’s their literal jobs to set up the conditions that make us wake up in the morning and want to log in.

[Gilvion-ravencrest]

@Alewín-argent-dawn

I just take a break for a bit - it’s healthy to have variety and you should never feel guilty about not wanting to play rn.

That seems to be the general stance on things, so I look forward to my time off I suppose after finishing hc raid yesterday.

@Incisor-moonglade

Ah, yes “I can quit any time I want to!”

If you do not take me at my words then there is little sense in continuing to give them, so I shan’t.

[Alýsea-azjolnerub]

@Gilvion-ravencrest

If you do not take me at my words then there is little sense in continuing to give them, so I shan’t.

Does feel a bit like they don’t want to, yeah.

[Gilvion-ravencrest]

They can gladly see me as a addicted WoW player that just can’t get enough of those hour long qeueus that made me switch to healer.

Makes no difference to me and if they prefer it that way they can gladly keep that opinion of me, I’ll even play along if it makes them smile even a little as far as I care.

[Alewín-argent-dawn]

@Gilvion-ravencrest

That seems to be the general stance on things, so I look forward to my time off I suppose after finishing hc raid yesterday.

Everyone has their own thresholds. Some people get 3k rating and quit until next season. Others want Cutting Edge. You went for Curve. Others consider max level, or finishing LFR their end game. There’s a broad area in the middle and everyone lands differently.

There’s no particular right or wrong, my advice is just to stop when it’s not feeling fun. It’s not your responsibility to find reasons to log in; if the game isn’t giving you those reasons, it’s better to step out for a bit, both for your own happiness and feedback to the developers. Nothing makes changes happen faster than half the playerbase disengaging

[Alythena-ravencrest]

The loading screen tip in world of warcraft read to have all things in moderation, even world of warcraft. Technically I take even moderation in moderation cause instead of playing less or more moderately I just play more

[Alythena-ravencrest]

There is people who get annoyed when someone tells them what to do. So in theory it would be best just let everyone do whatever they want to do as long as its not breaking any laws.

[Amonet-ravencrest]

Play alts or play other games and return when the new patch is out.

[Fydron-argent-dawn]

@Gilvion-ravencrest

So I ask you, what is your method for stopping or avoiding burn out?

By doing what i want in the game not what other people want which is why i don’t do above LFR group content anymore and have not done any of that crap since MoP.

Other thing is i don’t play just wow as the game is designed too much towards high end content so if i only played wow i would end with no content after few days/hours.

[Alythena-ravencrest]

@Fydron-argent-dawn

By doing what i want in the game not what other people want which is why i don’t do above LFR group content

If one wish, could give bg blitz a try. Its “end game” content as you get max ilvl gear and tmogs and some ranks with it and so on. And one can play it chat disabled if dont wish to read the battleground “leaders”. I play it cause I enjoy the range dps gameplay and the tmogs that usually wish to pursue few of them per season

[Graystorm-argent-dawn]

Play something totally different or just watch films/series untill you get the urge again. I play a bit of PGA Golf and Eve Online