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#1 Mar 21 2012 at 9:03 AM Rating: Excellent
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So it's that time for curiosity again and stuff. The game having changed so much over the last little while, that type of thing gets me thinking more and more. That leads to polls like this one, where I ask what kind of content you are doing these days. So without further delay:

What's your play-style like these days?
I do organized things with other people I know in game (Normal/Herioc Raiding, Arena, Rated BGs, etc.) :6 (19.4%)
I do randomly organized things with others (LFG, LFR, Random BGs) :9 (29.0%)
I play by myself (soloing, questing, playing the Auction House):16 (51.6%)
I just like to watch.:0 (%)
Total:31


So do you still do organized stuff with your guild? Or have you gone the way of letting blizzard handle the organization for you? Don't even bother with the random stuff and just enjoy solo play? Given up on WoW and just trolling the forums? Inquiring minds want to know! Well at least one inquiring mind does... Smiley: rolleyes

Me? I've gone to letting blizzard choose my groupies when I'm not out questing. Yay for mostly doing things like random battlegrounds. Smiley: yippee
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#2 Mar 21 2012 at 9:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm leveling a new main so I'm randomly grouping for now.

But the point of coming back to WoW was to play with my guildies, so eventually I will move back to that option. Games like Rift have a lot of good points but in the end I always miss my guild. We'll see what happens when GW2 comes out...
#3 Mar 21 2012 at 9:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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With my internet connection there for a long time I basically played wow as a solo game. I've been using LFG quite a bit lately trying to gear certain of my characters up... more fun by far with the heals and relatively fast queues than for dps which I can join a queue and get questing and forget I'm in queue when it finally pops. BUT that said... recently friends have transferred back to the server and we've been having a blast rolling through old content together.... semi organized in that it's on the calendar so we know when to meet up but it's the same 4 of us for sure and maybe 2 or 3 others change each week.

So mostly solo, then I let blizz organize my groups (especially in cases when the satchel is up for heals) and then semi-planned runs, though we haven't run anything current as a group. I am tempted to ditch the guild I'm in and join them... if anyone can tell me how the guild rep (personal) works.... if I wear the tabbard in a dungeon run I get no rep... but if I wear a faction tabbard I get rep so I should be earning rep... IF it was a guild group and I wore the guild tabbard would I then be getting guild rep? I'm at the same point with this guild as I was with the one that disbanded (or rather was overthrown and the leader booted everyone out but his own alts) and if I'm going to lose the rep I want to be able to earn it back somewhat faster than I have been earning with them... so I guess it's "IF I'm in a guild group wearing a guild tabbard do I get guild rep?"
#4 Mar 21 2012 at 10:00 AM Rating: Excellent
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We've had a number of core raiders miss big chunks of time, which completely hobbles a 10-man guild that's scraping by attendance-wise. So we're only now back to a fairly regular schedule. There's also a scheduled but informal LFR where we can queue together and get on vent.

Other than that, I've mostly given up on group content for this expansion. I don't need gear on either of my raiding toons, one of my crafters only PvPs, and the other is just 77. Challenge dungeons can't come too soon for me...

I've actually cut my solo time way down, mostly just chase the gold cap on non-raid nights, which doesn't take that much time.
#5 Mar 21 2012 at 11:05 AM Rating: Good
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I find myself spending a lot of my game time these days on my solo pursuits. That's not a bad thing really since I have never had trouble finding things to do in the game on my own. I do have trouble deciding just what to do but that is because I have so many options to choose from. I work on Archaeology (finally got the recipe on my alchemist) and I farm cool old gear. I enjoy leveling lowbie alts and running them through instances myself to farm gear for them and greens for transmogging (and to sell).

I do enjoy organized activities and I am close to leaving my guild (most of the raiders left for the SW MMO) to join a less progressed one that is very active. The situation is frustrating to me because I do love raiding and the LFR, while fairly simple, just doesn't give me the feeling of working together like a team. I generally don't do LFR or LFG unless I am grouped with at least a few people I know.
#6 Mar 21 2012 at 11:12 AM Rating: Decent
Killed the bad guy with my main toon so this expansion is pretty much over for me. I am playing solo on alts ( Hunter and a DK ) with very limited time on WOW. It's beach time until MOP.
#7 Mar 21 2012 at 5:08 PM Rating: Good
I didn't know what to vote for. I was Scrolled and then agreed to the 12months play time...i log in and talk to my guild and do random BGs. Still trying to get into the swing, and then I'll do random Dungeons on my Warrior (as tank) to level to 85. Because holy crap..when did BG EXP take a huge cut? I thought that was one of the reasons they added EXP to pvping...another way to level...but wow. It has been almost 2 weeks and I'm still lv 80 >.>

I may try and do end game >.> I dunno. Not geared so my guild would have to gear me for me to be useful (even my DK sucks when it comes to gear)
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#8 Mar 21 2012 at 6:38 PM Rating: Excellent
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Almost entirely by myself, besides brief grouping for things like LFG. I've always enjoyed setting goals for myself, and the achievement system is a goldmine; just realized that I might have Loremaster done, but there are a couple dozen achievements still around for completing X number of quests in all the revamped zones. I've also taken to soloing old raid content; last week I did all of MC, Karazhan and Magtheridon solo, duo'ed Gruul, and soloed all of The Eye and SSC except for the final bosses. Made a few thousand gold, some reputation, and had a lot of fun. I've also been finishing up the Firelands questline achievements (two to go... stupid randomized dailies), and I've gone back to doing the ToC dailies to earn the mounts and pets. Oh, and I have a few odds-and-ends dailies I do when I remember, like the Shattrath Crocs in the City, and I solo Anzu and Skadi for a chance at their mounts when I can.

My guild is doing DS, but... well, I don't care to fail multiple times in attempts and bloc out my weekday nights. I have a second job, after all Smiley: tongue So my time is my own and it keeps me entertained.
#9 Mar 21 2012 at 8:20 PM Rating: Good
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Gotta take exception to your categories - I need to check #s 2 AND 3. I guess I primarily solo - most of my gaming friends gave up and accepted adulthood decades ago. But I also try to hit my quota of random dungeons with both mans each week. OTOH, I'm not sure to what extent PUGs really constitute working with others.
#10 Mar 21 2012 at 11:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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Solo - Questing, professions, farming profession materials, selling on AH. Currently working on the Loremaster achievement on my main and just began questing a bit to level up my alt.

I have been playing WoW since December and have never yet grouped. The friend who invited me to WoW duoed with me a couple of times when I first began but I don't see him in game much anymore.
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#11 Mar 22 2012 at 3:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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Gwenorgan wrote:
"IF I'm in a guild group wearing a guild tabbard do I get guild rep?"


If you're in a guild group (at least 3 for 5mans) you get guild rep, possibly just for boss kills. If you are wearing one of the new guild tabbards you get extra guild rep on the things that would normally grant rep (so boss kills, handing in quests).

I picked number 1, but 3 would probably also work if you are looking at time spent on each category. My guild raids twice a week and for me that is the time that I will definitely be online (unless I have more pressing RL matters to attend), the rest of the time I'm online it's usually for solo stuff at the moment. I go through phases of trying to gear up alts through randoms or LFD but I'm not in one of those right now, plus I don't have many free evenings in the week, so I'm less motivated to try and get alts pug raid ready.

My solo time is mostly spent leveling alts, I've been multi-boxing recently and am quite excited about getting my first team to 85 and trying out heroics on my own, I'm level 76 at the moment so still quite a way to go for that :)

I still have plans for getting loremaster, pet and mount collecting, but I think these may end up being things I never actually get around to doing.
#12 Mar 22 2012 at 5:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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I play with myself and primarily like to watch.

Wait, what?
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#13 Mar 22 2012 at 11:44 AM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
I play with myself and primarily like to watch.

Wait, what?

By myself, with myself...what's in a word?
#14 Mar 22 2012 at 12:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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A bit of 1, 2, and 3.

I raid with a non-guild group on Tues/Fri for 3 hrs each. My guild runs a) are a miserable failure and b) on the one night a week I actually have a bunch of r/l obligations so I haven't run with them in months now - just too much stress for a game.

The rest of my time lately has been spent leveling Horde toons so that's mostly split between solo questing/professioning and a lot of LFG. Most of my horde toons are in guilds now I think (I have batches on different servers trying to decide which to continue with) but I have no real attachment or dealings with any of the guilds yet. I just join for the free perks and hope I run into a group I like.

My main server with the 10-pack of 85 Allies, I don't really spend much time on anymore outside the 2 raid nights. I have no motivation really to do much else with them even though I put the work into leveling them all. My raid toon, a Resto/Ele shammy, is in full 397 gear and gets VP from the weekly raids so there's no point in dungeons or even LFR at all. I have, I think, 5 others there geared for LFR but what's the point of continuing to gear them up? I'm not taking on any more nights for raiding so they'll never see anything above LFR anyway and it all just got too repetitive and grindy for me. I suppose I could really hit the farming and make a ton of gold but stuff that bores me to tears so I'd rather just continue leveling new ones.

On the guild front, there's been a lot of shakeup lately. The guild lead stepped down as raid lead and handed it off to somebody I don't even know. A "sister guild's" leadership up and server transferred with the guild leaving a lot of people behind who all joined us a few days ago, so it's like this guild I've been heavily active in for over a year is suddenly unrecognizable. We have officers and RL's I've never even seen and a ton of new people and toons. I haven't yet decided whether or not I want to bother attempting to be an "involved guildy" and try to do stuff with them or just continue to sit there and quietly ignore it all. If last night's attempt at "the new raid crew" was any indication I don't think it's worth it since I was getting texts begging my wife and I to help out; they hadn't started as of 45 minutes past start time and were done less than an hour later so I'm guessing it was a trainwreck.
#15 Mar 23 2012 at 9:12 PM Rating: Excellent
I've never been a very social player, so I can't say that things have changed as a result of Cata. If anything, I'm playing "with" others more now than then because I do use the LFG tool (not high enough level for raids yet), when previously, I would have just skipped the dungeon.

I've tried playing with real life friends, but that didn't work out, because they played a lot more frequently than I did, so were way ahead and doing completely different things. I've also been in (and am currently in) a couple of social guilds, but my activity with them mostly consists of congratulating people on achievements and stuff in Guild Chat. I like that a lot better than the guilds with my friends, because I don't feel as pressured to level. I like taking my time with the leveling process, so that just wasn't fun for me. I felt guilty and pressured all the time, when I should have just had fun.
#16 Mar 24 2012 at 9:29 AM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
I play with myself and primarily like to watch.

Wait, what?


I'm surprised it took as long as it did for us to get this response. I'm also surprised by who it was that made said response. Where's Pigtails when you need her?
#17 Mar 24 2012 at 1:28 PM Rating: Decent
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I primarily play by myself. I do BGs and stuff, but I don't consider that a group event since I'm pretty much a force of nature. Smiley: nod
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