Hi,
I’ve been playing WoW since 2005, and honestly, something feels off in modern WoW. In dungeons, raids, and even out in the world, I can barely see what’s happening — I lose focus almost instantly because of the overwhelming amount of spells, effects, and numbers flying everywhere.
I can’t focus properly on healing party members or avoiding stuff on the ground — there’s just too much going on.
Back in Vanilla, this wasn’t an issue… Now it’s extremely hard to manage everything, and that’s just in LFR or Heroic!
Today, I joined a Mythic+ 0 run as a healer (I’m 640 ilvl right now) and… my god. The spike damage, explosions, and sheer chaos everywhere…
I even downloaded the “mandatory” addons, but they don’t help much — there’s still too much information on the screen: health bars, interrupts, alerts everywhere.
Am I just getting old? 
I don’t remember it being this bad in the “good old days”…
Any tips?
The game has (d)evolved to be enjoyable by the newer generation that grew up with fast action-packed combat with flashy effects everywhere and huge numbers.
Yes, we are getting old. We are no longer the target demographic of Blizzard.
Pretty much this.
Blizzard is catering to today’s “gamers”, who have the attention span of a goldfish and need everything as flash and fast as possible.
This is sad…I think wow should gather all generations as i see it with Many generations playing.
yes, the game became more…“harder” and more thing you must keep an eye on because tbh classic and tbc were boring because the bosses and mobs dint do anything- you see that especaly in time walk dungon how tame they are in coparison to wotlk where blizzad stared to make Bosses hader anf foce grups member to moving and not just simple stay on one spot.
Is it much- yeah, and blizzard coud tune that a litle bit down, atleast for range dd and not being alwas andomly tageted by staff or get random (passive) dmg
But keep getting people to move their asses instead of just sticking to the same place for the whole fight - it’s just boring
The hardware at 2005 had limitations so did the internet .now we are in 2025 .the infrastructure can support what we have now .
Fast gameplay is nice and good . If you want slow gameplay you can play classic 
What if we have already played Classic and completed it, both back then and now?
I’m sorry, are you trying to suggest that millennials didn’t fit this description as teens?
Less than the next generation.
I’m a Millenial myself, and when I see my cousins on their phones going through Tiktok…I weep.
They swipe after 3 seconds through hundreds of videos, not even bothered watching everything. I ask how they know what they skip is good/bad and they just shrug.
They can’t fix their own PCs…
They can’t fix their own bikes…
Yeah…there’s a big difference between Millenials playing a game and Gen Z playing a game.
The guy who sits next to me at work does that and he’s older than me (I am 30 year old boomer). I always thought it was just because there is endless garbage on Tik Tok.
Ah to play WoW on dial-up back then…
My Netgear 56k modem often d/c’d me if there were too many things around me loading… had to ask guildies to send me their cache folder to fix it. Fun! 
I mean, there is 
But how can you know something is skipp-stuff without watching it?
And if you know it…why are you on TikTok ?
I skip videos the moment I see AI generated content or them generic ear grating txt-2-speech voices. Despise lazy stuff.
Basically modern Vine.
Vine couldn’t be longer than 6 I think.
When I was young my mom cried that I don’t know how to hold a screwdriver like everyone is supposed to be a handyman. I can’t really fix my own PC or whatever either.
There’s a video to fix that! 
I don’t use Tik Tok but the people who do must know that 99.99% of stuff on it is garbage. So they know there is a 99.99% chance what they are watching is garbage and what they’ll watch next is garbage.
Why they watch it is anyone’s guess. I wouldn’t watch it.
Eh that’s fair, I skip that stuff too.
And usually is a dead-giveaway
The early levels of M+ are pretty rough. People know neither their class nor the dungeon. Everybody stands in everything, no kicks or defensives, tanks don’t maintain basic mitigation - All of these mistakes have to be fixed by the healer.
While these errors don’t usually result in one-shots, they make the run significantly harder than it needs to be. Ironically, healing gets easier at higher levels where people know what to do, until you reach levels where unavoidable dmg is really high.
So while DPS play M+ in order: +2, +3, +4, +5, +6, +7, +8, …
Healers play something like: +6, +5, +4, +5, +6, +7, +8, …
It’s just rough.
In my experience, many of the dungeon related addons create unnecessary visual and audio clutter. Whether it’s extra “cast bars” for boss abilities or some annoying sound alert that goes off every 20 seconds for 30 minutes straight. Everybody would be out of their mind after that.
I suggest to heavily edit the dungeon related addons you have to actually make them useful instead of annoying.
Or simply turn them all off. I’ve done that some time ago and have done completely fine (reached 3k this season fairly easily).
Many, if not all, major boss abilities have a cast time so you can literally read what the boss is going to do or they have some default animation or sound attached to them. I don’t find any need for an addon that would annouce it to me for the second time. Literally just pay attention and you will be fine.
Probably we do in comparison to the generation before us (according to wikipedia I fit the description of being born between 1980 and 1995); in comparison to them I did not have the required attention span to read 10+ pages of a literature book in one go and I was easily distracted by the flashy lights of video games.
But the major difference with the next generation (people born from 2000 onwards) is that this new generation is unable to solve something unless they can google it, youtube it or ask AI for it. Possibly I’m exaggerating, but in the case of an electric blackout (for example due to work being done in the network), they would be unable to get anything done, not because their hands are not used to handiwork but because they cannot critically think how something is fixed.
Lots of boomers are abysmal with technology though. I know some that can’t even critically think enough to even turn on a PC.
Back when I sat in a different seat the guy next to me downloaded a bunch of malware that was obvious malware.