Originally Posted by
Synthaxx
I feel the need to play weekly because I'm on that god forsaken quest to get 6K valor right now. Only got 730 so far and will have 1730 by the end of this week. It takes me quite some time to cap valor each week but it feels mandatory to play in order to catch up. Once I finish that, I've still got to kill the guy in Krasarang, and then start on the 5.2 chain.
I could opt not to play, but I'd fall behind even more. However, I deal with it because everyone else had to go through the same. I'll eventually catch up and then I'll be able to relax. I don't do dailies outside of Dominance Offensive, and I'm still not even close to revered with Klaxxi, Angler, August Celestials, still have numerous Tiller NPC's to finish off. The only reason for me farming DO rep is that I want the mount. I'm an LFR only guy. Because of the approach I've taken to the game, I play as I want. I don't need to dedicate myself to it. I used to despise people like me because they generally ruined raiding guilds (before LFR was even around), but now, I understand that it's easy to get burnt out with the game.
Prior to MoP, it was never a case that I'd always be able to find something to do. TBC was raiding and some PVP for me. That was it. Wrath was the same until LFG was updated, but it still didn't draw me into dungeons. Cata, I didn't play much at all. MoP though, there's almost always something for me to do. It's the first expansion where there's enough options that I don't feel forced into anything and can play as I want. I gear through LFR, get the vanity rewards from reps, and do various other things the rest of the time, or you know, log off and do something else. Even if I'm 'forced' to play every week, it's the fact I can do what I want when I want that changed my perspective on the game. I can schedule the game around real life, and stop when I want to without anyone feeling like I've let them down by doing so. Everything is available to me in some way, and finding time for it isn't difficult.