I was pretty pumped in getting back into World of Warcraft since last week’s project had finished. However, for whatever reason, something just clicked with me tonight and I felt really bored with it. I had been reading various forum posts and youtube videos that weren’t the most positive. Not sure if that killed my interest, but it certainly didn’t help. Similarly, while doing LFR on my Death Knight, I missed out on a much needed helmet. Not the first time nor the last, but it just irks me that gearing has been so painful. I even dread the new heroics.
My feeling is that part of the issue is that I’m mostly playing on my own and I’ve pretty much done everything in patch 4.3 that I wanted to accomplish outside of fully gearing and leveling every toon I have. While I still enjoy gearing, the thing that has been killing me is just repeating the same content over and over.
Thinking back to Wrath of the Lich King, I tolerated the grind a lot more. Perhaps, part of the reason was that I wasn’t attempting to gear 5 toons simultaneously. But there certainly was more instances and variety back then. I certainly miss the raid of the week instances, Wintergrasp and VoA among other things.
I could go back to PVP but I’m not all that thrilled at the moment, partly because my gear isn’t great and I’d have to grind out a lot to catch up (meaning, either doing random BGs or converting my JP to honor).
Overall, I think the biggest loss for me is just not having anyone to play with. A lot of my friends quit and my guild focuses more on PVP than PVE stuff. So I feel as though I’m missing out in the game in playing by myself. I started doing some stuff with my warrior in terms of preparation work for the new heroics but it honestly is boring doing them again and again and again….
Although I doubt I can do the Dragon Soul raid outside of LFR, it would be nice having more than just one guildie accompany me at a time whenever the (rare) times I do enter.