Is WoW just not the game for my anymore? Finding my place in it

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Hello everyone,

I am sure this thread will get me a lot mixed feelings, and this sentiment has been rewritten a thousand times. I’ve actually felt this way many and many times during my years playing WoW, but I think I never actually went to the community with it.

I’ve begun to think this is just not the game for me anymore. I enjoy what I’ve accomplished in the game. It’s not a lot, but I believe I did better than average. So I cherish very strong core memories with the game, that are part of who I am as an individual.

But this game seems like it’s just for me anymore. For three major reasons:

  1. Time.
  2. Constant meta chasing by the playerbase, which seems to be ‘by design’ from Blizzard.
  3. Being forced to play with other people. (Point one makes it harder to be consistent with friends and all of us being online at the same time.)

I enjoy playing WW Monk and this spec, when it doesn’t perform, it is absolutely avoided like the plague. I have a very hard time to get into any group after I reached a rio deserving of +10s. So it’s not like we’re talking about hardcore progression.

And I’m not even mentioning raids, I would be very content if M+ worked easier for me.

I love not having to schedule anything with people. With my very limited time I just want to login, queue, do my absolute best and have fun. This makes it almost impossible for me to play the game at the level I used to when I basically did not have anything other to do other than play the game, day in day out.

Now, I realize this game is not Call of Duty where you login, enjoy the game, and go off. It’s more of a job, or a very time consuming hobby. Which is fine, if I didn’t feel attrition coming from all sides of it.

So, I’m not trying to convince myself or be convinced. My question is, do you guys feel like I still have a place in this game?

What is there to do in WoW other than pushing keys, do raids, get gear or the occasional transmo run?

Thank you for reading.

PS:

I haven’t played in 2 or 3 months. I have been on different things and enjoying myself. But with Midnight coming out, I’m questioning if I should even bother.

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Taking a break and trying other games is good for the soul.

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You are just having the same problem as every DPS trying to do dungeons via LFG. It does probably not even matter that you are not meta. As DPS to have a chance to get into a random group you need to massively outgear and out-RIO the key you are applying to.

Only chance to have it differently is to join a suitable guild and/or communities.

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I used to care about wow and then I grew up :rofl: Seriously though I no longer care about fomo, mounts, titles, achievements, transmogs. I used to mythic raid, m+, do all kinds of stuff but as I progressed irl (career wise and as a person) I found much better things and experiences I can focus on than wow. I still play from time to time but I can skip a whole expansion, then come back for 2 seasons and then go afk for another year.
tl:dr wow is a very small part of my life now and I play the game whenever I find it fun and the moment it gets boring I quit.

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Doing end game activities in an MMO is exceedingly difficult without a group of friends/guild/community. If you don’t enjoy any other aspect of the game, hell you can’t even -think- of it, then no probably not.

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WoW is like a toxic relationship you always go back to.

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I used to Hardcore for WoW.

Now I’ve long gone casual. And honestly I ain’t missing out much on stuff I used to play, I don’t bother with Mythic Raiding or M+.

The game’s still enjoyable, for the most part.

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Thank you everyone for the comments. I see that we are in the same boat. I think I have to find my kind of WoW at this point in my life.

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That’s for you to decide, but in my opinion you do have a place in the game. Going entirely solo and “asocial” does not prevent you from progressing. It only prevents you from the cutting edge rewards.

Look at my character in the armory. I am ilvl721 with 2+ months left in the season, when the maximum attainable is 730 (and the optimal 729 since it includes 2 crafted items?). That’s with literally having done less than 10 keys all season long (and all between +2 and +5) and joining just Normal raid pugs during the 11.2.5 Turbo Boost event. 95%+ of my progress is from Delves, crafting and from upgrading the thousands of weathered crests that I get from world quests. That’s content where you don’t even need to organize with someone else for something, just spend 1 hour some evenings and maybe 2 hours during weekend nights for the raid.

Install AllTheThings. You’ll find everything that’s left to do there.

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General rule of thumb, if you find yourself asking the question, then the answer is yes.

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I just do what I enjoy doing, which is pretty much everything besides M+/Raiding (I do LFR), since I started doing this WoW doesn’t feel like a job anymore, I don’t care much about ilvl as it gets “reset” every season :slight_smile:

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My perspective and experiences tell me rather that just for every key a DD applies to, there’s 10 other DDs also applying to that same key.

There’s only so much space in a 5-people group for DDs.

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DPS problems xD . Pug is always gonna be hard .

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I’d look into the following:

  • What are you hoping to get from your WoW-time?
  • What are you actually getting from your WoW-time?

If there is a mismatch:

  • What are the changes I can do to reduce that gap?
  • Am I willing to make those changes?
  • Is there an alternative duo of answers that can work?

For example, you mention M+ and spending time in queue, getting rejected a lot, maybe failing to do content sometimes.

Are you playing for competitive reasons? If so, you could follow the meta more.

Are you playing a class because you enjoy it? If so, you could focus less on M+ and more on the world. Maybe making your own groups, although you may struggle to complete them (find tank or healer).

Example, I’m playing for the stories and a bit of fantasy immersion, so I’m playing low level characters through the story in retail. As for dungeons, I enjoy old iterations so I replay a resto druid and prot paladin in Classic to WLK.

Usually your hunch is enough, just listen to your guts. If you feel annoyed searching for groups, probably you should stop M+. Just like I convinced myself to focus on Anniversary but then I felt an itch to visit X story.

Set your own goalposts.

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Precisely! Which is why, as DPS, you have to be insanely „overqualified“ to stand a chance at being picked :slightly_smiling_face:

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Just play like we do:

  • Do stuff you enjoy
  • Surround yourself with people with the same attitude
  • Stop chasing meta and fomo because you have friends to play with now who don’t care about that
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We need a M+ mode that allows as many damage dealers as a 2CV allows clowns to fit inside it.

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Or make more 8 player or 10 player content with dps being in more quantity needed :partying_face:

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This is so true. Dont want to quit cause how much you already invested to it

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