The grip that WoW may have ever held on me is gone. There are still things I want to do, but doesn’t seem like there will be time. I’d like to get good gear and see BWL and Onyxia, but who has 4 hours a night to play? I used to. I used to come home and get on around 4pm and get off around midnight, give or take. Some nights were out, but those that I was home, I was on WoW.
Gitr, what’s changed? Several things changed recently. First, I moved out of my parents’ house. Now I can watch TV when I want, I can read where I want, and I can play computer as long as I want. My roomie has the entire Firefly series on DVD. I have been watching those. Then I’ll watch the movie. Then I want to watch the entire Godfather set. I’ve never seen any of the Godfathers. *blush* We have HD cable. There is a pool and a weight room.
I have a girlfriend. I believe it takes more time to have a girlfriend than a wife. I know that seems wrong, but here is the simple thought in my simple pea brain. Sleeping is considered quality time. If you go to bed at 10pm or something reasonable, that’s a good 7-9 hours of time “together.” Dinner together is a given and never inconvenient, because you’re both there. No one ever has to go home, so there’s travel time cut out of previously wasted time. Watch some TV together, maybeรย a movie, find something quiet that you want to do alone, together, and you’re set. It’s not that simple with a girlfriend. Sure, it’s easier after a few years, but the hours we are together have to literally be together. When get my own time, it’s not like it’s automatically WoW time.
Since I can’t just jump into a MC run or fly down to ZG and start fighting, my schedule needs to coincide with others’. Since I don’t belong to a large, hardcore raiding guild that can let me just log in and take down Onyxia, Gitr has been sitting around IF while Priestr gets going on Sen’jin. The only thing that keeps me from playing Priestr more is a lack of funds. Sometimes I just want to wait for my auctions to sell so I can train or buy mats to train skills. Sure, I could grind or quest, but there’s Mythbusters, Numb3rs, and Law & Order. I have 3 books I want to read, along with one that I’m reading for fun, one I’m reading with my girlfriend, and more that I want to buy.
I could save $15/mo and just stop playing, but then I wouldn’t have anything to blog about. I love blogging. Maybe it’s time to start a Priestr blog. Grimr’s lonely, too, but Kargath is getting to be such a pain to log in to. Anyway, enough rambling for now, but I just don’t want to be at work today. ๐
Truthfully, this is why I love being in a raiding guild… Everything is planned, so I CAN plan my real life around certain events. Whereas, when I was grinding to 60, it was hit or miss when I would get into certain instances, etc and I had to plan WoW around RL (bad thing). So, now that I know I have MC every Saturday, I can plan on doing things with the wife on Sunday all day, etc… Makes it a ton easier.
Of course, Sen’jin is another story ๐ Gotta just find time to level that whenever I can.
Don’t give up Gitr. I just moved guilds to a more “free” raiding guild. They have a calendar of events set up and most of them are first come first server. So this week since my girlfriend is out of town, I am raiding most every night. Next week, I will only pick the nights I want to play. I have had many friends try and quit just to come back a week or two later. Try and find a small guild that runs ZG on a given night or AQ20 on a given night and join that. So then you know every Tuesday night, you need to give time to WOW from 6-10pm. At 60, it gets too boring to not do instances. At least wait until patch 1.10 comes out and you can then spend your nights doing the insanely long tier .5 set quests. :-). Stick with it. What will happen to Priestr if you quit? We won’t have a shield happy priest. =P
Sorry about that, guys. I’m not giving up, but the “kick,” the near-addiction of “I want to play WoW today all day” is gone. It’s not the #1 entertainment item on my list now. If it wasn’t for Priestr, I’d be done with Call of Duty 2 by now ๐
I really want to level Priestr to 60.
I want to level Grimr to 60.
I want to hit 300 enchanting and tailoring.
I want to get the Valor set.
I want to kill Onyxia.
I want to farm MC.
The issue is how to do that while I still want to have the life that I have now. I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that now that I’ve hit 60, I still need to put my life on hold to do the end-game content. It’s just not right. I just want to jump in there with Hogit or Gahlok and run through MC on a Saturday when my GF is working. Just, “BAM, hi guys, let’s roll.”
I spent 16 days of in-game time working on getting Gitr to 60, and now he should just be able to be brought out to play and be able to play, not have to hunt for somewhere to go.
Maybe I’m wrong – but I don’t think you have to. Josh is right – one of the better things about an organized guild is that runs are planned. The bloody things take forever and require some commitment. But so does say – showing up at soccer practice or working out or maintaining a relationship.
Dude – you’ve *hit* 60. You can engage and disengage at will now. Sequoia is 59 now and I’m enjoying the fact that I can focus on battlegrounds with him – or raid – or just let him sit for a while and play my alts.
Throttle back for a while. My interest ebbs from time to time as well. When it does – I just shift gears and do what I enjoy vs. what I feel like I *should* be doing to keep one of my toons competative.
Get an addon called Guild Event Manager and there you go. “BAM, invites starting, lets roll”.
I got it. Let’s see how it goes. Thanks, Winter.
Is this what you thought I was thinking of doing?
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/03/09/drakedogs-suicide-now-on-google-video/