This was early in vanilla. There were nowhere close to enough quests to beat grinding. World quests didn’t exist and elites would take too long to kill and not worth the time investment vs killing weaker mobs.
I did not even go into the physical health issues that plague my daily life !
But yes, computer games of all types, and to an extent “physical boardgames / RPGs” will give us divergents, and everyone else too, tools and strategies that apply in “The Real World”, making life if not easier, at least bearable.
Too few people are actually willing to make that effort though, kinda sad.
But I do take new characters in there when I feel the need to “get a break” from M+ dungeons with my main character (this one, Beast Master), and I always choose “the hardest way”, because for me the time investment, long as it is, is actually rewarding.
Several medical doctors and specialists have compared my mind and body to “Pompeï, after the volcano eruption”.
I still manage to get a decent quality of life, but it’s a constant, daily battle against myself before I’m ready to face the world, and then I have a very close limit before I’m drained and need to get back into my “hermit cave” to recharge.
As I said - don’t overestimate new players abilities. He didn’t know it’s group quest, he just went in there (as a hunter), but still couldn’t kill it in several attempts. Some of us are mmo veterans who play 20+ years, and we know everything from inside-out, but completely new players in the genre don’t. Something as simple as kiting for us, might not be that simple who played mmorpg for 20mins.
Both the writer and director of jaws have come out stating that they regret making that book/movie, because it did nothing but cause irrational culling of shark populations worldwide.
Bloody being the operative word here … sharks can detect a single drop of blood from miles away, and as apex predators that must always move (even when sleeping) just to breathe (they don’t have gill muscles to actively pump water into their system), they are always hangry (choice of word deliberate).
Kinda fascinating as a genus and species, they basically have not evolved for thousands of millenia, and they are still one of the most dangerous and efficient marine predators … intelligent too, and with a form of communication marine life scientists are just beginning to decypher.
Aaaaand I’m off on another tangent … gotta get ingame, I have weekly quests to finish today !