Hi,
Short answer: play whatever you enjoy the most.
Long answer:
Play whatever you enjoy the most, but don’t feel locked into it. Try other classes, experiment other contents (from battle pets to gold making, questing or even taking a glance into role playing, try to minmax PvE or PvP even if you don’t feel like you are skilled for it).
In my long experience on this game, as I pressume you too have, I’ve always feel that I’m in a loop of content-phases that makes me never feel bored enough. There’s enough content to see, enough stuff to comprehend and unlimited options and possitions to make one realise that every player is wrong and right at the same time.
I’ve been reading alot of rigid statements through the years, always displaying a lack of empathy or displaying some bias in therms of game knowledge (content wise).
To give some examples, a player that is always doing solo content will never agree with what a minmaxer would say; the same way as PvEers would reffer to PvPeers back in TBC days.
There’s this story where PvEs in raid back then would reffer to PvPers as “oh, don’t bother of this guy, he’s a PvPer, don’t hear him, even if he’s calling for certain strats in our PvE raid”; that felt really rough to hear back then. As a new player in those days, I never liked that mentality, and even if I was more into the PvP scenario (as a noob of course, not reaching insane goals), I did learn everything that I could from every part of the game.
However, even in 2024, I see people that I was playing with or did know back then, being exactly equally skilled, not having played a single arena or RBG.
Same of the opposite though, I’ve seen alot of really well skilled players blaing PvE content, saying that it is easy as hell, and not even comprehending how complex a high-end PvE raid content is. I’ve seen it myself, where me, as a PvP minmaxer healer, did find purely PvE oriented healers that were, literally, insane and unreachable. Their comprehension of boss swings, CD trading, timers, and other fancy stuff did impress me to the point that encouraged me to learn how to play the same.
Now, with all of this text that is personal experience opinion, I want to make you guys think about how are you playing the game, and what havent you experience yet, and give you the advice of playing every content that you probably don’t see yourselves playing, and see if that changes your mind abit.
Said that, my hard take for some of you is that this game has its own mechanics, and sometimes, people feel comfortable of the control that they have of them for their content, but if you want to really enjoy the game, you need to control your character 100% (not to a ill level though, just enough to feel that you can do whatever you want with your tools, and be creative), because most of players can’t figure out or don’t understand how powerful their character is, and others understand how others aren’t skilled enough for their gear, leading into a gatekeep mentality that ruins the community.
Everyone should understand that every player is trying their best to enjoy the game, but whatever player should learn to play the game as much as they could (in micro mechanics or even game systems such as gearing, macros, quests, lore…), so we could see less skill-gap or knowledge gap, and increase our enjoyment overal.
