Alright so this is my first ever topic in the forums so please bear with me if there’s something not quite right.
I created this thread to see if anyone had similar experiences regarding OCD in WoW.
Especially when it comes to characters and classes my OCD sometimes prevents me from playing the game how I want to play it which bothers me and is absolutely stupid, but it is what it is.
Let me explain:
As you all know there are 4 types of armor (plate, mail, leather, cloth). My brain dictates me that I have to have a character of one armor type each. I’d love to play Warrior as a twink, but Pally is my main so I can’t do that. I couldn’t go: plate plate leather cloth cuz I would have 2 plate and 0 mail.
Same with factions I can’t have 3 ally 1 horde it has to be 2 and 2.
Now I’m quite happy with how it worked out as I’m playing Pally Hunter Rogue Mage, every class on a different race, two on ally two on horde.
If anyone ever had similar issues it would be great to hear how you dealt and maybe overcame it.
I absolutely get where you’re coming from. It hasn’t affected my character choice (I wasn’t so bad when I created my characters years ago) but it does affect how I play. All my quest chains have to be done in the right order with no other quests being done in the middle of a chain. That sometimes means I miss out on things that are only ingame for a short while. And, yes, it bothers me and it is stupid. It frustrates me so much yet it feels ‘wrong’ to do anything out of order.
Best of luck with playing the game and, so long as you’re enjoying it, it’s no-one else’s business how you play it
Fight it. Do it on purpose against your OCD and I assure I know what I’m talking about. It’s simple and requires a little bit of will to do so - no meds or other people are gonna pull you out of it.
No it isn’t simple at all for people with serious issues. Yes, you’re trying to help, yes it’s “easy” for you and others, but don’t tell people something is simple.
It is a good advice to tell someone to fight it, but it for some t takes more than a “little” bit of will.
Some even can’t manage without the help of others.
But yes, telling them to keep on fighting and giving advice how to does help a lot
Well, it sure bothers me that there are four leather classes and only three plate / cloth / mail classes… was even worse before Evoker. It’s also bad that I like to play monk, rogue and demon hunter, which are all wearing leather… which isn’t helpful to get different mogs… x) Faction balance doesn’t bother me luckily; i’m just annoyed not all classes can be elves.
At times it helps being “strict” and compromise on one class of each armot type… the fact that mogs can now be collected independet from whether the char can wear it or not has certainly helped. No need to play DH/Hunter for the glaives/bows any longer. That should also make it possible to skip playing some “armor types” fully in the future without missing out on the mogs (at least from questing…).
Not similar but for me its really hard to use character creation in any game that doesnt allow any alteration on the choises afterwards, like used to be in wow aswell, so I would overthink the choises too long or make character few times, but now you can just go to barber and change whatever you want afterwards so thats not a problem anymore.
I’ve seen topics from others who have it and have met players who do over the years, you’re not alone. It never seems to be exactly the same, it’s always with a personal twist. I have it slightly, with having to check whether I locked the front door, or the stove multiple times and such, but it doesn’t manifest in gaming. It always sounds like a pain in the bum to me, I hope it doesn’t interfere with actually enjoying the game too much
I have the same issue, but I do always find I am happiest on my Paladin. I just levelled a Priest and Warrior to 80 and the Warrior was infinitely more fun… but when I got a Paladin, I felt like I could breathe again.
Sometimes I think of making a Paladin army - one of each race - and all the various professions. I’m now thinking of ditching my “all the classes!” idea and just making a Horde Paladin to complete my warband, because if I have to suffer through what I did with the Priest I’ll not be playing much at all!
I recently met someone who had an OCD that required him to leave every location the same way he entered. So if he’s in a mall and he went straight, left, left, right, but there’s a faster way out but had to go straight originally to get to a shop - nope, can’t do that. Have to turn around, go left, right, right, and back out. And people have to remember this for him, because he won’t consciously.
Not even remotely sure how he could play WoW with that. Sounds nightmarish. You basically can’t Hearthstone without a panic attack.
With that level of OCD its impossible to play wow. Its like a paraplegic trying to climb a mountain. Not the type of activity if you got an OCD as severe as that one.
And in those cases, my experience is that he is BSing somewhere. Its not the first time that people exagerate simptoms of a disease (or outright invent a disease) for attention.
