I have been playing WoW since launch November 2004. My brothers and I always being very casual players. Didn't hit Level 60 until right before TBC came out, but had like 8 Level 40-50 character before that. Hit Level 70 right before Wrath came out. We take our time, leveling all alts at the same time, and our busy married guys, with kids, careers, etc...
Wrath was the first time I really got deep into WoW, getting to 80 rather quick, and finally started to Raid, and get full Tier geared out. I got serious with the patch that included ICC, and ran that Raid non stop every week. Was able to gear up all my alts very fast and easily with some kick ass items, and was in a fun Guild, just having a great time, running ICC and RS, etc...dying and looking forward to Cataclysm being on the way.
Cataclysm has now been out close to 2 months, and I haven't logged in in about 10 days, totally bored and burned out on WoW, Cat did not grab me like I expected it would, game feels alien to me, and not as interesting now. Was crazy happy with Cat the first couple of weeks, just exploring the new content, and revised old world, flying all over was awesome, but the newness seemed to fade rather quick for me. To get full Tier 11 gear will take forever, I just don't have it in me to run 10 million Heroic dungeons ( that take much longer to run than Wrath Heroics did ) for the Valor Points, and then the very difficult Raids to get more Valor points and i359 item drops. I think I got too used to the end of Wrath and gearing up so easily.
And the new Level 80+ zones are super solo easy, no point in needing friends to quest, it feels like a single player game from Level 81 - 85, I want to play an MMO, where I need my buddies to explore and run quests together. And the new dungeons are cool, but get boring rather fast, after several runs. And then the new Raids, look cool, but are super crazy tough to PUG, and most Guilds even have a tough time getting through them with just blue gear.
In my 6 years playing WOW, I have never taking time off a brand new expansion. When TBC came out, I was playing every day, or at least 5 days a week for months, and Wrath I played just as much if not more than TBC, 7 days a week right at launch for a several months. With Cataclysm being just 6 weeks old, I have not played for 10 days now, and couldn't care less.
Wrath was the first time I really got deep into WoW, getting to 80 rather quick, and finally started to Raid, and get full Tier geared out. I got serious with the patch that included ICC, and ran that Raid non stop every week. Was able to gear up all my alts very fast and easily with some kick ass items, and was in a fun Guild, just having a great time, running ICC and RS, etc...dying and looking forward to Cataclysm being on the way.
Cataclysm has now been out close to 2 months, and I haven't logged in in about 10 days, totally bored and burned out on WoW, Cat did not grab me like I expected it would, game feels alien to me, and not as interesting now. Was crazy happy with Cat the first couple of weeks, just exploring the new content, and revised old world, flying all over was awesome, but the newness seemed to fade rather quick for me. To get full Tier 11 gear will take forever, I just don't have it in me to run 10 million Heroic dungeons ( that take much longer to run than Wrath Heroics did ) for the Valor Points, and then the very difficult Raids to get more Valor points and i359 item drops. I think I got too used to the end of Wrath and gearing up so easily.
And the new Level 80+ zones are super solo easy, no point in needing friends to quest, it feels like a single player game from Level 81 - 85, I want to play an MMO, where I need my buddies to explore and run quests together. And the new dungeons are cool, but get boring rather fast, after several runs. And then the new Raids, look cool, but are super crazy tough to PUG, and most Guilds even have a tough time getting through them with just blue gear.
In my 6 years playing WOW, I have never taking time off a brand new expansion. When TBC came out, I was playing every day, or at least 5 days a week for months, and Wrath I played just as much if not more than TBC, 7 days a week right at launch for a several months. With Cataclysm being just 6 weeks old, I have not played for 10 days now, and couldn't care less.
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