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About a week or so ago, I acquired enough champion’s seals to buy the last of my leveling alts the bonus XP chest and shoulders. My playstyle has changed a fair amount since then. Rather than logging on regularly every night and doing the daily quest circuit, I log on, do a quick auction house scan, and play whatever character I feel like playing for as long as I feel like playing. I quit raiding back in late spring since I got tired of having to be around morally questionable people “because we need to make up a full raid”, so that’s another stress dealt with.
There is no end to WoW. You have to decide when enough is enough. For me, the game now ends a bit after level cap – a few dungeon runs, making and buying gear to get raid ready, and I’m done with this character and ready to start another alt.
I level toons and have been running through the vanilla WoW instances at level with a static group and it’s a lot of fun. There’s no longer that sense of having to log in, or having to get certain tasks done. I play for fun and stop when it’s not fun.
#1 by Liza on 11/30/2009 - 10:23 am
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You know, I’ve noticed since I quit raiding that i log on MORE – I want to putter around on my alts and get achievements and do the world events. I want to chat with friends and run small dungeons and work on trade skills. I DON’T want to worry about my gear, my enchants, my spec, my consumables, my spell rotation every other week when something changes or something new comes out. That is the same old song and dance to me, whereas even doing the same quests over and over with different classes and be more interesting to me.
When you think about WoW now…. do you see the beginning of the end? I think the next major WoW change I make (it may be awhile off though) is just quitting. The only thing I would have to do then is make sure I still have a way to keep in contact with all the friends I’ve made.
#2 by Joel on 12/3/2009 - 11:01 am
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I know what you mean about the repetitiveness of raids versus the repetitiveness of leveling.
I’m still hoping for another MMO to take WoW’s place. WoW is definitely getting long in the tooth for me, but I don’t know if I’d just quit without something to take its place. I suspect it’ll be more of a long slow slide – I’ll log in less and less and one day I’ll just cancel my subscription. I really don’t feel that I need to play much to justify my $15/month.