I know that will be people that will say just to it gud or if they can have my gold, so to all those reply let me answer right now: kindly turn on twitch and bother Asmongold with this, he gets paid to play WoW.
For the rest, I have a question: when do you consider that playing Warcraft is too much?
My answer can be found below. First, I am not a professional player. WoW is not my job. It should be a hobby, a way to entertain, a way to have fun, a passion why not. A job is for plenty of people something that is done up to 5 days per week. Going to school (regardless if is 5th grade or University) is also 5 days per week. Now, should a free time activity that is more like a hobby to be done more than 5 days per week? I think no, since playing WoW is not mandatory as breathing for one survival, thus 5 days per week should be already too much.
Your body and your mind needs rest, so clearly spending each day of a week in the same environment can’t be healthy. If I take for instance going to gym, playing football, going dancing, playing an instrument, all these are something in between 1 to 4 days per week.
So, playing an online game should be also in the register of 1 to 4 days per week. How many hours per week? I would say that if you do any activity for like 10 hours per week, you are going to see results in 6 to 12 months. If you run 10 hours per week for 6 months you are going to see a spike in stamina and you will be able to run quite well after 6 months. If you play piano for 10 hours per week for 6 months your neighbors will let you know for sure.
So 10 hours per week should be enough to have results. In most cases, even if you start from close to 0, in 6 to 12 months you will be above average if you are doing an activity constantly for 6 to 12 months. Of course, you are not going to be a pro, you are not going to be the best, but still you are going to be good enough to perform that activity above the average human being that is doing it.
And this is where my issue starts: if you play WoW for just 10 hours per week, you are under the average. You are seen as a super casual and you simply don’t have the time to complete the weekly tasks.
I am seeing many forum posts that you are suppose to put time, effort, but what is the time limit? In any activity, if you move from Rome to Paris you don’t forget to run. However, if you move from one expansion to another you forget to fly and the time spent to gain a skill or a knowledge suddenly doesn’t matter and you are entitled if you consider that once a skill is acquired it should stay there.
Is it possible to play WoW less than 10 hours per week and still be rewarding? When an activity turns from entertainment, hobby, passion to addiction and unhealthy?
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When you’re at levels of extremes like this;
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Yes.
When you spend more time doing it than doing irl stuff and putting it before everything else in your life.
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It should be possible to complete Renown, Torghast and Maw weekly quests in 10 hours on one character.
I mostly classify something as an addiction when it actually gets in the way of the rest of your life, and impairs your functioning as a human being.
Think of it this way, it’s the difference between a guy who likes to drink, but can still go to work and actually function properly, and a guy who drinks every day, shows up to work hung over or drunk, can barely do anything else because of how drunk they are.
So for WoW’s case it wouldn’t just be playing it a lot. It would be playing it so much that it begins to impair your social life, mental and physical health, and work-life balance.
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If anything playing too little wow is unhealthy. You become bitter, whiny clown and you move to bnet forums to spread negativity. :smileyface:
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This is a very difficult question to answer, doubly so because of how diverse your playtime in WoW can be.
It also depends on what you mean by healthy. Do you mean physically unhealthy? Do you mean it’ll give you unhealthy relationships? None of this is clear - you must define your terms.
In my humblest opinion, World of Warcraft is not unhealthy in any terms.
Obsessing over something is unhealthy, and it is likely to lead you into psychological trouble, regardless of whatever it is. It has nothing to do with the amount of time you actually spend on it at the end of the day.
Bruh…
We’re piles of atoms addicted to dopamine floating towards our inevitable end atop a big rock zooming through endless voids of nothing until the void says “screw it!” deleting any resemblance of reality with it.
Might as well play wow.
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As long as it doesnt impinge on your regular life (so if you are cancelling on work/school or friends then its too much). Except housework…not doing housework coz you are playing WoW is a totally valid lifestyle choice.
Shockingly it doesnt matter if you play 10 hrs or 1 hr a week. Nothing bad will happen if you dont complete the weekly tasks…you will just be slightly behind other players…in a game that you are playing as a hobby.
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What do you do in less than 10 hours per week that is rewarding?
How much time of gaming per week it’s affecting your social life? How many evening can you dedicate to gaming and still have a healthy social life? How many hours?
Play the amount that feels good to you. If you start feeling tired or bored its better to log off. Think about your health (mental and physical)
It’s literally dependent on the human and their life.
A lot.
i once sat in the car when i had to drive to work in the morning and first thing i did was to check at the top of my windshield what buffs i got… definitely knew i played too much then. 
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When I was 14 years old I could play WoW for 5 hours straight without feeling tired or guilty. Now in my late 20’s I can’t play more than 2 hours a day without having the urge to close the game.
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Well, soon I’ll be doing the weekly stuff in one hour, then M+ in 3h and then some achievement hunting or PvP in the last 6h.
All over the course of three days a week.
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I think I reached the point of addiction, honestly. But I don’t mindlessly play WoW as if to get a fix - I greatly enjoy it. I don’t have much good going on for me in life, and nearly every day I have to fight to savour the few things that keep me happy.
I play too much, even though I am no hardcore player. I find myself logging on after breaks of at max two hours, leveling an alternate character, or finding things to do on my main, just about anything. I need excuses to play. Often I skip my language classes just to laze about in-game.
Like others pointed out. When the game takes precedence over other more important things, that’s a point of unhealthiness. I have certainly been trying to detox and log on only when I have actual concrete things to do - level my Profession a little (not to the point of hours and hours of farming), do Torghast, level something in a Dungeon or two, etc. It’s been rocky, but as for your question of if logging on less than 10 hours a week would be enough - it would, so long as you know what you’ll be doing when you log on and not meander. Torghast runs for Ash today, wrapping up Anima gathering the next, completing your Covenant story the next, gearing the next, and so on.
It sounds like a lot to do. But with more and more things being weekly, you have 6 days to spread things out.
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I don’t think the time spent playing matters as much as the reason you play. You know is it just a fun hobby that you enjoy or are you addicted. Long time ago I was in a relationship with a guy who would take his PC to his parents’ house for Christmas because he couldn’t even think about not playing for a day. So while the rest of us were having Christmas dinner around the table he took food to the guestroom to eat while playing.
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Lmao. That right here should answer the question as to how much is unhealthy 
I feel you. My first BRD run took like 6 hours to be completed, now if I have to go 3 times through Oribos to give a quest I just want to log off.
I think I play too much as well. And I know the time spent in Azeroth is time taken from other activities, being social ones or just reading a book.
But isn’t this how every addiction starts? But not being aware how much time / energy / effort you are investing in something? And out of the blue, you realize that you are addicted? Nobody is becoming addicted of nicotine from smoking one cigarette, but smoke 3 per day for 1 month and puff, you are addicted.
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Nope, if you want serious PvE and PvP power it won’t be enough.
If you are a pet collector yes.