Anyone else burnt out/bored yet?Follow

I'm not even close. Knowing that the game at 85 will be there for at least a year I've taken my time leveling. The only zone I have done 80+ yet is Hyjal (and part of Uldum) - I still don't even know how to get to the underwater ones. My archeology is at 500, and I plan on maxing that out at just about the same time that I hit 85. Once I hit 85 I'll start on the other zones, going in order, getting the exploration and quest achievements, along with a (hopefully) ton of gold. When I'm done with the quests I'll hit the normal instances, following the guide in the druid forums on gearing up for heroics. By then my guildmates will all be in better gear than I, making heroics much easier (I hope).

While running heroics I'll also start looking more into PvP. Rated battlegrounds sound neat, and the new ones look interesting for a bit. Then I'll try and hop on with the guild to down the Lich King, which will hopefully be trivial by that point; and after we'll jump into the new raid content.

And none of this even discusses my new goblin and worgen, nor my Horde character (although I think 80-85 will be similar in most areas for both factions).

I think at my current rate of play (maybe 10-15 hours a week) I'll start wondering what to do come late spring or summer.

Edit: However, some of my friends and guildmates are in similar positions. They raced to 85 within the first week and now have long queues and not much to do. Knowing that's what would happen I've been going slow on purpose. That said, reaching 84 within 2 weeks of the expansion still seems really fast to me.

Edited, Dec 20th 2010 9:04am by LockeColeMA

Is this intended to be "I quit I want attention" thread? Cuz its up to you to find the parts of the game you enjoy. Make a tank (or healer) and enjoy short ques and have fun learning new roles. Find another guild that suits your time restrictions better. Tons of casual guilds who only raid 4-6 hours a week and don't require 100% attendance. If none of this helps... then its time to take a break if you are just burned out on wow. It happens, no need to blame it on the game.

I am not burned out or bored yet, but I must say that I was surprised at how fast the levels went from 80-85. My wife and I play together and we played casually, simply working on the quests in each zone, starting with Vash/Hyjal, then Deepholm/Uldum and we made it to 85 in just over a week. I guess we enjoyed the new zones and stories so much it made the time fly by, so that could be part of it. I've reached the 525 cap on engineering on my main, and working on Arch, herb, and alch on one of my alts. At this rate, most of my characters will be level 85 with professions maxxed within 2 or 3 months.

I think I will reach the bored stage in about 4-5 months.

I've been a raider since level60, and not really a casual one at that (only boss I haven't killed is heroic lich king...).

I'm guessing that the game has just become stale with rinse-and-repeat leveling/instances/gearing/gemming/etc that I may have finally gotten some strong bites on that carrot on the stick that there is less for me to strive for.

@Vilaca, no this isn't really intended as a 'i quit give me attention, plox' thread. I was curious if others who may have been feeling burnout/frustration in Wrath (like I was) have had any similar experiences to myself. I haven't 100% quit, but I haven't logged in for over a week, which is quite unusual (especially for myself) at 2-weeks into a 'new' game.


I don't really want to go through the same quests again, but maybe I will level my DK and see if it gets more fun for me, I enjoyed tanking a bit (even if it was a bit scary at first) in Wrath on him.

I'm really enjoying this expansion. Ours is a casual guild, so we are just now getting a enough 85's to explore all the 5 mans. I'm one of the guild's main healers, so I haven't pugged at all. All our dungeon runs (no heroic yet) have been fun, with us chatting it up on vent. I really like many of the new boss encounters and mechanics. I've gotten my mana regen up to an acceptable level, and I'm pretty happy with my stats for the level of content we are currently doing. I am having fun healing, and gameplay has moved away from simply bubble spaming everyone, to using most of our spells where appropriate.

I had a good amount of cash saved, so I've leveled my engineering to 525 (love the Goblin Barbecue) and I'm finishing up my Tailoring. I've also started Archeology. Fishing and cooking are in process as well.

Although I have the old Loremaster, I'd like to get back eventually and get each zone's new quests completed for the new Loremaster.

I haven't even thought about playing through a starting worgen or goblin yet. There's a lot to do. I suppose if I get a moment, I could level my hunter, who is my herbalist / miner. We aren't rushing, but we are making progress. I'm having a blast.

I'm not burnt out yet, but I'm trying to decide whether I want to raid with my guild, or start leveling an alt. We'll see.

This is exactly how I feel.

I wasn't able to play the first few days of Cata, since I was out of town for work. When I was able to play, I decided I wasn't going to rush to 85. I spent time messing with primary professions, archaeology, etc., instead of just grinding to 85. Even so, I got to 85 in about a week. Despite the massive XP requirement, XP comes so easily now that the levels really fly by. Maybe it's because there's only 5 instead of 10 this time around. I don't know, it just seems like leveling probably should have taken a little longer.

I'm still taking it slow, though. I haven't done a sinlge instance yet. Partly out of fear (I admit, I'm hesitant to tank new instances) and partly just because I've been enjoying everything else so much, I haven't really been in a hurry to start the gear grind.

With the thorough revamping of the game, I don't really see myself getting bored any time soon. I love the changes. I'll get back to some alts at some point, but for now I'm enjoying the hell out of playing. And, we haven't even started raiding yet. That's usually what I enjoy the most. So, there's still a lot of life in this expansion for me.

I'm kind of feeling your pain...

My guild currently sucks. My old guild kept asking me to respec for 11/12 LK attempts. I wasn't invited to the first 11, because i was new and after enough people left, the RL would ask for my help. It was always stupid things, like respec for fire-mage or heal as a disc-priest. The problem was I never played those roles and I was being asked to learn it on the LK fight. (I was also annoyed the 1 raid I did attend, I was 3rd in DPS and I still couldn't get invited to anything other than failed LK attempts) So I left. My current guild is just ok. They don't raid and don't really do 5-mans. It's kind of just a social club.

I looked into doing a realm transfer (I'm on a Med. realm, but the **** Population is relatively low.) I also looked at a faction change. But I have 5x 80s and I'm just not paying 100+ to transfer my account.

My subscription is good for a while and the new content is really fun, though I agree - the levels go WAY too fast, but unless I can get into a guild that casually raids or does more than run old BC/Wrath raids... I probably won't re-up come May next year.

The LFD tool is also broken. The 40+ minute queue time is crazy. The groups that do form aren't always really a good fit. You end up with a lock, a hunter, and a paladin for DPS and you really have **** for CC. Yeah, Hunters can CC, but it's the weakest IMO.

I really like the new zones. Especially Uldum. I didn't see that coming - the Eqyptian thing. Very cool. The underwater zones are also great.

For me, it's the lack of a proper guild and the refusal to pay 25-30 per toon to change.

Edited, Dec 20th 2010 12:58pm by Borsuk

I'm not a scrub player, but I worry about doing well in instances; a feeling I haven't had since TBC. The reason is pretty simple - in Wrath I could pretty much control the fight as a tank. Keeping aggro was no problem, and I had enough "OH SH*T" buttons that even assuming I received no healing for 30 seconds I would be fine. DPS could stand in the fire and die, or not use CC, or not interrupt, and the group would still be ok. This is not the case any more - now I'm at the mercy of my other teammates doing what they're supposed to do (barring the healer, who I've usually done fine with). And a lot of DPS just don't understand or can't do it when you do a random. It's frustrating for me knowing exactly how my role works, and then having to deal with the mage who would rather Blizzard everything rather than sheep the marked targets. Without that control, if the DPS pull aggro and die because they don't FF on my target, we can run out of healer mana and die anyway even if the rest of us get it right.

That lack of control is frustrating. That said, I think it's EXACTLY how it should be! The instances are like they were in Vanilla, but with better items, less (for some instances) trash, and more interesting mechanics. Guild-only runs will be awesome; randoms will be VERY random.

No problems but if you have an hour to play (A reasonable time for a casual play), forget about Heroics (3 hrs), forget about regular dungeon with 45 mins queue time. I was not a raider because of time restriction, now I can't even do dungeons. I know we are not in Kansas anymore, but give us some slack Blizz.

The Wrath dungeons at the opening (not during the t-10 grinding for BOA) were fun, short and LFD was your friend. I know it’s hard to please everyone but I would like them to keep extensive dungeons length and difficulty for raiding. Give us our little care bear dungeon to play around and feel like we accomplish something in an hour.

No kidding, this.

Also, The expansion's been out for 2 weeks. Not everyone is going to be ready or willing to do heroics quite yet. I know I probably won't until at least January.

I think that heroics are the right difficulty, it's just that people aren't ready for them 2 weeks into the game. As people get better gear, and learn the fights on normal, the average player will be better equipped for heroics and it will be easier to run them. Add into that the heroic geared people who will run a heroic or two a day and fill in the last few spots via LFD and the whole situation will gradually get better. It's early days yet.

I wouldn't say that finding a tank or healer friend is the same as joining a raiding guild.

Edited, Dec 20th 2010 1:08pm by Xsarus

There's nothing wrong with the difficulty level in heroics.
If you're failing it's because of the group messing up and it has nothing to do with gear ot the instance being too hard. A.k.a suck it up and get better.