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I'm waiting until after the new expansion is announced at Blizzcon to decide if it's worth coming back for a while.
Unsubscribed.
I'm waiting until after the new expansion is announced at Blizzcon to decide if it's worth coming back for a while.
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I was more interested in how people see themselves, than in getting objective definitions. I could have asked how progressed people are in raids or how high an arena/RBG rating they have, but I was more curious in perception. I've met people who raid 2 nights a week for like 3-4 hours, but are in the top 100 US for progression and they call themselves casual.
Hardcore RPer and PvPer. Used to be a hardcore raider, but let it go after Cata happened.
Casually-Hardcore.
By which I mean, my raiding days and hours are somewhat unpredictable and subject to change week on week since work/other stuff comes before WoW for everyone in my guild, but that doesn't mean we don't put in the time to know what we're doing and use the time we have to full effect. Our roster is also subject to change since we maintain a fairly large social-group and will bring people in as others quit/become too busy.
It depends on the game and my mood at the time. I'm the kind of person that will really get into a new game; where I need to beat it get 100% achieve and see everything but just when I'm about to hit 100%. I lose all interest and quit. WoW is probably the only game that I can honestly say I play casually, were I never really get fully into it but I don't completely lose interest. Even if I drop it I usually come back months later; that said this expansion has given me the longest hiatus from WoW ever. I will say that there are some games that I go completely hardcore like Pokemon (and spin-offs like conquest), Dragon Quest, Golden Sun, and other similar RPGs. Oh and The Last of Us which is probably the only PS3 game that I ever platinumed.
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I was semi hardcore, but my last guild fell apart so I might quit and play other games for awhile, I dunno.
I would say I was intermediate back in WotLK. Cataclysm I was pretty casual for the most part only doing heroic dungeons and leveling alts. MoP start I could have been considered semi-hardcore as someone gunning for realm firsts but as soon as I hit max level I went super duper casual by playing only on the PTR and only dueling and talking to people with an arena or bg thrown into the mix once every couple of weeks.
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Semi-hardcore:
- Raiding 3 nights a week for a total of ~9 hours (6 after all is on farm).
- Raids are of high quallity, with a number of things expected: pre-knowledge of the encounters, simming your chars (minmaxing, theorycrafting), learning from mistakes and not doing the same one too many times, being verbal when needed, have good knowledge of your off-specc and strive to have gear for both speccs, willingness to sit out a progress encounter for the sake of progression (if your class sucks for the boss).
- During the 1st-2nd weeks of a raid-patch being out, raiding days / times may be extended.
- I've been known to spend a good 6-9 hours playing WoW on certain vacation days (doesn't happen often, but can occur if I have a clear goal set in my mind, like leveling to 90 after MoP came out).
- I maintain 1-2 alts to a reasonable degree, 1 in PvE and 1 in PvP other than my main (not too hardcore though).
- I like getting achievements / transmog stuff, so I play outside of raiding times alot.
That being said, I keep a healthy lifestyle around work, and have other interests and passions in life, while I do invest time in WoW, I would definetly say I spend alot of my free time away for it.... Semi-Hardcore (not too much time spent playing, but alot is invested upon quality).
Last edited by Falu; 2013-10-29 at 08:15 AM.
I play about 4 hours a day. I consider myself intermediate.
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I would say Intermediate - Semi Hardcore.
I raid 9 hours a week ( 3h x 3 nights), and don't realy play outside of that anymore (8 years of playing so...).
We will kill Garrosh this week and start Heroic right after.
While 9 hours isn't a lot (I used to play a lot more back in the days), raiding 3 night a week feels like a big commitment to call myself a casual.
I play pvp i got arround 1500 rating atm because i can't find a good partner. i think im intermediate, semi hardcore and above are for 2200 imo :P
Casual. I do everything I can do solo (leveling alts, collecting things, etc), plus sometimes do LFG and LFR. No flex, normal or heroic raiding, used to heroic raid, not interested in that any more (and can't due to real life). PVP'd in several previous seasons, not doing it now, would like solo queues for 2v2 (which would give conquest points, yes).
I wish Blizzard provided more options for solo endgame. By adjusting the mechanics in old raids so that one can do all of them - including achievements - solo (this applies to several old instances as well), by making professions more interesting and useful not only at max levels, by making more reputations, more rares and more treasures, and by adding more parallel progression schemes like battle pets (liked the farm, want more, although perhaps with less "do it every day or miss out" flavor).
Lol 2 all the intermediate votes.
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Casual until semester is over. Make gold/flex/old content every week.
I only LFR raid because I just dont have it in me to raid with a guild, but theres pretty much nothing that I have not grinded out in the game. I grind out everything as it comes out. Most people would put me in casual but I have a lot of casual friends and half of them cant even do the dailys long enough to get exalted before getting bored, yet alone grind out something like the archeology bug. id say intermediate.
I consider myself casual.
I usually play for 6hours during work days, and I can play up to 20h total on weekends. I sometimes just login to do daily cooldowns. When I do my 'normal' play day, I do LFR/Flex or farm something for gold.
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I voted "Intermediate" I low-end progression raid 9 hours a week with additional old content/lfr/alt runs as desired. All in all I'd say I spend over 30 hours a week logged in.
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