6 weeks in already bored

[AudibleEscalation]

For both my daughter and I, 6 weeks might be a record for us to have this "I'm bored already" discussion of a new WoW expansion.

Sounds like it's time to play other games until next patch? It's really not harder than that. WoW is seasonal game.

I've only been playing for 3 weeks, I didn't get EA and there was no point starting before season start.

So for me, there's still plenty to do, we just started our Mythic progg and haven't even done all dungeons on +10 yet.
But when I'm done (in about 5-ish months) I'll unsub and play other games until next tier.

[Just Passing through]

But it does provide a "carrot on a stick" to continue working towards, while potentially enticing the player to explore other aspects of the game. With 600+ gear from Delves it becomes much easier to get into NM/HC raid PUGs or Mythic Keystone dungeons.

That may be so - but I have little hope. People were already cherry picking their TW BT raidteam on the basis of highest ilv - with 590...no chance.

Which is totally fine, I am not going to open that debate and ofc there is always the "Make your own raid option". Which means for "NM/HC raid PUGs or Mythic Keystone dungeons" - it won't be about getting into those PuGs, because you always will be terribly behind...it s about making your own group and hoping for ppl to join that are...on the other hand...not turned off by your own low ilv.

In the end there is ofc still the guild option...but for a player who for whatever reason likes or has to play a lot solo..yeah..there are incentives...I just don't have high hopes of success. Probably safer to just buy a carry in trade

[ro9ue]

I do like TWW, I'm just not drawn in or glued to it like I was Legion, which I played 5 to 6 nights week, for 2 years non-stop. BfA I was almost as addicted too like Legion, but a little less, and Shittylands not at all. But then DF got me back into WoW again, and so did TWW, but just not as much right now.

I think the one thing that Legion did really, really well is having a lot of class-specific content. It made playing alts way more interesting. I do think TWW is a pretty good expansion, but ultimately once I've done the stuff on my first character, I've done it all.

[Kilpi]

What do you mean?! The game has the same shitty content it always had, just solo casual PVP and M+, unless you're a super mega casual who plays 3 hours per week and does stupid shit like seasonal events, pet battles, achievements, fishing, and transmog runs on 10 alts.

Why are those things you mentioned "stupid shit" compared to anything else in the game? Or in any game..

[Ereb]

Why are those things you mentioned "stupid shit" compared to anything else in the game? Or in any game..

Because his little brain can't fathom that anybody might enjoy things he personally doesn't.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

@Zorachus

You make this same style of thread every expansion. No joke— I took 2 minutes and found 3 different threads from the past 2 expansions that you’ve created saying the same shit.

?? Are you not self-aware at all? Have not once thought that maybe the game is not for you anymore?

Or, are you just wanting to milk sentimental responses?


EDIT: these are just from the first page of your created threads:

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...then-it-wasn-t

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...2-months-of-DF

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...as-captured-me

[Hotmail]

WoW is extremely formulaic and somewhat dated these days, I'd say getting bored after a few weeks is normal. Only a simpleton would enjoy doing the same thing over and over year after year.

Overall there are more people who have quit the game than people who remain, so this is a normal part of the process of playing WoW. Find another multiplayer game to enjoy, it's not the late 90s anymore where your choices were between battle.net and battle.net.

[Biglog]

The game does have that element where if a player isn't interested in any of the end-game activities like raiding, m+, pvp, or even delves, it can become boring at 80. It's 2 games really, the leveling/gearing experience and then end-game. So when leveling a character the question does need to come up, what am I going to do with them when I get to 80? That's up to each person to decide. There are plenty of things to do. But if none of the end-game activities interest you, it's always going to be a fairly time-limited thing with each expansion release. Blizzard's trying to get faster patches out to avoid those lulls, so they are aware of the issue and trying to avoid player drop-off if you hang around for a bit.

[Zorachus]

The next patch will probably be up in three weeks. Nothing wrong with taking a break till then. If it's not that you already got bored with content and your issue is the gameplay, take a longer break and play other games. If you are spending most of your time with WoW I assume you aren't playing that many games so you can easily find something great cheap. Or pick up another MMO for a month or two if that's more your style.

The question always is for me, are you playing this just with your daughter? No one else? No Friends and Family guild doing normal runs and giving a social aspect to your gaming? If not then yeah, at some point repetitive content will get boring. You need the social aspect or a challenge to keep it interesting.

Good point and question.

My real life friends and older brothers stopped playing WoW many years ago, they were into games like Never Winter Nights, and Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, and Icewind Dale, etc... to them World of Warcraft was a kids game, little to no skill needed or thought about plan of attack and strategizing about enemy strongholds. That whole group stopped playing after BC, just got burned out on the hamster wheel, rinse and repeat gameplay. But during their time they were god players, always running the Raids and difficult dungeons, and geared with near top tier stuff. But they just got bored with the game, they hated the idea of "the game doesn't start until you get to max level, where end game is where it's at" they couldn't stand that idea. To them the journey was the game, leveling up, and exploring new hidden areas, and doing hard dungeons during that experience, etc... But just spamming the same few dungeons over and over for slightly better gear was pointless to them, and Raids were cool to them, but after a few months the same Raid runs got stale to them.

The first Guild I was in disbanded after Wrath, it was a super awesome Guild too.

So now, none of my brothers play, no real life friends play anymore, the Guilds I was in are gone and history. Only real person I play with is my daughter now and she's a super casual. My daughter will do up to M0 dungeon runs as her max hardcore stuff.

[Hellfury]

I dont raid atm as I cant attend fixed hours or devote lots of hours in pugs, but Iam already tired of Delves its always the same formula and they are now super easy even Zeklie(or w/e its called) it was nerfed and I done her fast, there is some achievements I need to do and tier11 without dieing but yhe Iam considering stop and come back to the aniversary patch

[Jtbrig7390]

Honestly same.

The one piece of content I was really looking forward too turned out shitty (delves). I hate the current system for it like needing keys for good loot, and bran leveling slowly and only in select delves.

I think I'm just going to take a break while they iron out stuff but between that and just the time gating in general I'm bored. Kinda feels like the start of SL to me and I hate it.

[deenman]

You are definetly built differently. For example the obsessive feeling of "need" you attributed to AP grinding, particulatly uneeded grinding of content you hated is a quality frequently asssociated with sociopaths. Perhaps therapy is needed.

if you enjoyed mythic raiding yes,you HAD to grind ap,thats a fact grandad

[Shadowferal]

I like the journey not the destination. I love exploring strange new worlds, discovering new zones and hidden areas. Leveling up getting new talents and new spells. Doing transmog hunting and mount hunting.

This was the game for me and the first 10yrs of WoW. Never cared for however "end game" was. Despite that, I did like to see players around. My nelf druid helped a young Tauren get bear form and sealion. (Druids help each other...a bit of rp from me) The small quests that so many today are dismissive of gave so much depth imo. (Finding out the reality of "Caylee Dak" was a bit of a gut punch) Such small quests were hidden treasures to me.

[Twdft]

WoW longterm is a repetitive game, if you are done with the onetime content unsub and play something else until next patch.

Maybe FIFA but beware, there's nothing but Football to do you'll get bored.

[Ragedaug]

I have 3 level 80s my main is i609 and alts i580+ but I log in this past week, and think, ok...what to do? What do I want to do? Run a Raid?... Run a M+ dungeon... Ok I'll just do the weekly World Boss and weekly cache quests.

This is basically all there ever was to do. Raid, dungeon, quest. With added stuff like pet battling, achievement hunting, transmog collecting.

That said, if you really enjoyed dungeon spam in the past, leveling alts, etc., I suppose I can understand where you are coming from with the current dungeon community. The Mythic mindset, along with the ease of regular dungeons have turned all of them into, pull everything to the boss, AOE it down, then pull to the next boss. It's definitely efficient. Kinda has that Diablo 3 Rift grinding feel to it. So it can definitely feel off if you aren't used to that, or don't care for that constant "go".

For both my daughter and I, 6 weeks might be a record for us to have this "I'm bored already" discussion of a new WoW expansion.

This seems normal. The longer you play, the quicker you will become bored of the formula. I've seen it with friends and guildies all the time, especially when you aren't taking a substantial break from the game, like multiple expansions. Every expansion they play less then they did the expansion before.

We saw the same thing in Classic. We saw good guild attendance almost all of Vanilla, started losing folks about 2/3 the way through BC, then folks started dropping half way through Wrath, and now in Cata we aren't even making it to Firelands.

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So I dunno. I don't get these threads. I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish, or what you think Blizzard should do differently. If they make the game into a completely different game every 2 years, it may keep you from getting bored, but they'll lose lots of folks who weren't getting bored, and they'll lose lots of folks who don't like the changes to the game.

Getting bored with any game you play a lot is extremely normal. Take a break and find a new game or hobby and recharge.

[Zorachus]

I think people are losing my point here. It's not that I'm bored or burnt out on the game. It's just that the current generic paint by numbers formula for WoW expansions is getting stale.

Good World of Warcraft history lesson during WoD expansion, at that point I truly felt burnt out with that expansion just was not clicking for me and was not having fun. So for the first time ever at that point I unsubscribed from WoW.

I came back 6 months later to see if it improved, and it did not. It was still a very lame, generic and boring expansion. And I thought to myself okay, maybe I'm just done with this game. I've played it for 10 years. It's just not for me anymore.

And then I remember seeing all the hype for Legion, and thought to myself, nah I'm done with this old game, it's just not for me anymore.

But I caved a few weeks into Legion launch and bought it. And HOLY COW maybe the best expansion ever. I was hooked from the start, and I played Legion for 2 full years straight, 5 or 6 nights a week nonstop. The expansion I played the most in my 20 years of WoW.

Legion rocked, with the Class Halls, and Artifacts, and Class Mounts to get and weapon appearances to hunt down, and at that time NEW things were added to WoW for the first time, like World Quests, and M+ Dungeons. I LOVED Legion.

Which proved my point. It wasn't me getting burnt out in the game or just been playing it for too long. It was a shitty expansion experience in WoD compared to the night and day ten million times better Legion.

Blizzard needs another shot in the arm, refresh like Legion again, but not a Legion 2.0 copy, but just something fresh and adding new things again.

I loved Class Halls and all the side quests that went along with that, and getting your Class mount, and those super cool weapons, etc...

[KOUNTERPARTS]

I think people are losing my point here. It's not that I'm bored or burnt out on the game. It's just that the current generic paint by numbers formula for WoW expansions is getting stale.

And every other time you've made this thread, you've complained about this very point and have received the same responses you are receiving now.

Is everybody always losing your point?

There is not much more you are asking to be enlightened on that you haven't already heard, or been told, numerous times before. I read your responses. You take opportunities to share your "back in my day" experiences instead of really responding to the suggestions/tips/advice that you seemingly want. I mean-- what other reason would their be to make this type of thread every expansion?

Unless... of course, you have some other motive or something.

Even here, a thread you made a couple of weeks ago where you say:

Sorry I don't mean to be disrespectful. I'm not knocking people that still like World-of-carrot-on-a-stick gameplay.

Where you proceeded to do just that: be disrespectful and knock people who like the game's formula.

I struggle to understand what you are trying to achieve here-- not only with your past threads but with this one too.

[Malkiah]

if you enjoyed mythic raiding yes,you HAD to grind ap,thats a fact grandad

no, it isn't*

*it isn't a fact if you played the game at all outside of raiding, but if you were a 100% exclusive mythic level raidlogger who refused to participate in any content the game had to offer outside of raidlogging, you "had" to grind in order to catch up on the AP you didn't get from actually playing the game.
however on a purely numerical level there is zero reason that anyone ever had to grind (ie: perform repetitive activities over and over again for the purpose of rapidly and efficiently farming large quantities of AP) in order to maintain patch-current levels of weapon/neck/covenant advancement, that's a fact grandad.

your parse on warcraftlogs being your favorite color is not a "need" built into the system.

[Fistfighter]

? Run a Raid? Hell no. Run a M+ dungeon, maybe but not in the mood for potential drama or the rush rush, go, go, go mentality in a PUG.

"Hey guys, why am I bored in the game? I tried everything, except for actually playing the game, please help me"

[Asrialol]

I dont get it. I really dont. If you get bored, unsub (or dont) and dont play the game?

Theres so many other games to play.. Why do people keep playing if its boring...??