The End of an Era

A big problem I am having with World of Warcraft is the game itself. I am not finding the fun get-away from the world content anymore. When I first started playing, I wanted to do it all, I played and learned. I was doing quests, running dungeons, getting into battle grounds, and when I maxed out my levels, I was going into raids. It was fun.

Then with the introducing of heirlooms, The battle grounds lost their fun. I went from being able to actually compete with everyone else, to being killed in one shot from a rogue. I am not a fan of heirlooms. I think they break the balance of the game. Now, if you do not have them you can't even damage the enemy. So I stopped playing in the battle grounds. On a side note, I hadn't played a battle ground at max level until I hit 90 with my guild, they are a lot more fun with a group, even though we all sucked. But the horrible taste on my tongue is still there from the lower levels.

That is me in the number one spot before heirlooms

Then I tried to get into raids. I joined an upstart guild where we began to plan our raiding schedule. The guild grew nicely but unfortunately we were absorbed into a bigger raiding guild. They quickly made me feel like I hated raiding. I didn't want to raid with them because people quickly got mad over small things. Even being in the top five dps with little gear, if you didn't do it they way the leader wanted it, you sucked. If you missed two days you were removed from the guild. Which I was removed from the guild. I couldn't have been happier.

The raiding guild took what fun should have been killing Arthas and made me want to become the Lich King myself and kill them all. I tried to keep in touch with most of the guys from the guild, but that soon became hard to do as I was now looking elsewhere for a server.

Then came Cataclysm. I didn't think it was a terrible expansion, but now that I was done with end game raiding for a while, I spent my time doing quests and dungeons. The dungeons were not as interesting to me as the Lich King ones, but I still tried them out. I got yelled at by a healer for sucking when I told them I have never been here, and just made the gear requirement. They refused to explain the boss fight. I was still number two dps on the bosses. The attitude I have seen over the years with the game has been going down hill, the nice people, for the most part, have left the game, leaving only childish brats and guys who just sit in a city trolling trade chat.

With dungeons now being something I hate to even queue for, I went head long into quests. I found that they quickly became repetitive. But I had fun doing them. Exploring the new worlds, I loved that. Vashj'ir was beautiful but repetitive. Being stuck underwater, though you could move faster, got tiresome about half way through the zone. But I kept working and one by one completed all the zones, four times. Then I went to work on maxing the reputations.

The joy of exploring is finding shots like these

The game went from repetitive to grinding very quickly then. The dailies ate at my soul until my love for quests were gone. So I spent most of my time in Orgrimmar sitting on buildings waiting for my friends to get on so I could talk to someone. During this miserable time, I met someone and started falling for them. It was a mistake, and I should have seen it coming, but I went for it anyways. I still value her as a friend, but what was once a best friend, a "bbf" as it were for us, now is not much more than talking once every six months.

So as she pulled away from me, I quickly found myself sitting, logged in, on buildings or flying around in circles and loops, doing the occasional daily until I hated everything about them. Then I moved a toon to the Alliance and found Gentle Persuasion.

For the end of Cata, I was happy and enjoying the game finally. After about a year, I felt like I belonged and it was fun. Got back into dungeons, we started to raid, I did all the quests I could find and life in WoW was good. Pandaria came out and I was living high with my new friends and guild. We started to get a bit more serious about raids and I quickly remembered how much I hated them. But I was with friends and I was happy.

I did the quest line only once. I could not standing doing it another time, though I was excited to do each part as I went. They really were a great set of quests in Pandaria. But to me only worth one time through. The dungeons were OK, they brought back some of the enjoyment I had, but I give that credit to the company I was with not the dungeons themselves. But then the end game stuff came.

I don't think the game does anything wrong with it, I just find I am not the same person I was when I started playing. Which is a good thing and a bad thing. Good that I am growing up, maturing, become more than I was when I started playing but bad that something I loved so dearly for so long has become something I wish would just die. So I guess the game hasn't really gone bad. Just my love has.

I understand that parts of this are similar to what I had wrote in the last post, but I wanted to share why I dont like certain aspects of the game anymore. So sorry if the post was a bit redundant, I think next I will work on something not WoW related. But then again, the nice thing about having a blog, I write whatever  I want :)

As always, Thanks for reading.