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Flamethrøwer

Flamethrøwer

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Anyone else been really bored in-game lately?

Maybe I'm just in a slump, but at first I was excited for the Firelands raid, and the new progression through the Molten Front, unlocking stuff, etc, etc. Now I just don't have any desire to log in on Flame and do my dailies. I just feel like I want to level. I don't know what it is, but it seems like the endgame of this expansion has just become very boring and monotonous to me. I just don't feel like I have anything to work towards. I even thought about doing the Insane title again.

I've been leveling a hunter (finally), but it's on another server. It's been kinda fun leveling without heirlooms and tons of starting cash and bags. It was fun starting with 0g, 0 gear, and 16 bag space. With my Hunter (currently 71), I've leveled every class to 71 or higher except a warlock. I might do that next, to say that I did, but after that I won't have any new classes to try!

In completely unrelated news, hopefully the SWTOR release date will be known this week.
 
I agree. Things are always different when one's gameplay is almost exclusively 10 p.m. ST or later (e.g. no raids, usually no more than a dozen guildies on) ... but I experienced the same sort of thing with FL. Initially very excited at all the content that as a non-raiding casual player I saw I'd be able to access. Then it actually got even better, when invites to PuG FL rep runs were floating freely, and I started reliably getting into one of them (Afternoon Tea Time).

But ... as time went on, the FL dailies started getting real tedious. I'm on the shadow wardens stage now ... doing the MH quartet of dailies and THEN another 4 in the initial MF part and then ANOTHER 4 in the SW stage ... even for a dedicated daily-doer like me, about the third time through I was not excited AT ALL about it. And it's been over a week since I've gotten in a decent FL rep run, stuck ~400 rep away from honored.

Anyhow, right with you on this patch. Initially more excited than any other patch in awhile ... but now very bored with the dailies.
 
Yes and no

I never could stand dailies and such so I haven't even unlocked the shadow wardens or the other guys because that is simply too tedious for me.

Also since raiding for the most part is not at a time that suits me (not complaining just a fact) I have not really got to raid that often. When I do - Everyone else is bored to tears with the raiding content that I have hardly experienced. So you feel caught.

For me this expansion feels way more grindy than any in previous memory (Isle of Queldanas was pretty grindy too). But its not just the dailies that feel grindy - it's the forever amount of time it takes to gear up, to run the same two dungeons over and over (that is fixed now though), having to grind rep with every faction on every toon, etc, etc...

For those who love that sort of thing (you sickos) this is a dream come true, but for me it's just well...... boring. If it wasn't for the people in guild I would probably quit playing altogether, and I am also excited about star wars - hoping it comes out soon!
 
jokitaylor said:
Yes and no

I never could stand dailies and such so I haven't even unlocked the shadow wardens or the other guys because that is simply too tedious for me.

Also since raiding for the most part is not at a time that suits me (not complaining just a fact) I have not really got to raid that often. When I do - Everyone else is bored to tears with the raiding content that I have hardly experienced. So you feel caught.

For me this expansion feels way more grindy than any in previous memory (Isle of Queldanas was pretty grindy too). But its not just the dailies that feel grindy - it's the forever amount of time it takes to gear up, to run the same two dungeons over and over (that is fixed now though), having to grind rep with every faction on every toon, etc, etc...

For those who love that sort of thing (you sickos) this is a dream come true, but for me it's just well...... boring. If it wasn't for the people in guild I would probably quit playing altogether, and I am also excited about star wars - hoping it comes out soon!
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I completely agree. I'm not a big raider anymore, because it's too late for me to raid, and I havent gone through grinding for gear...It's just too boring. I honestly enjoyed Isle of Queldenas but this is just outright boring. I really had high hopes for Cataclysm, but so far they haven't been fulfilled.

Maybe I was just hoping too much?

And yes...I can't wait for swtor. Dad and I are getting it. I've been reading the Fate of the Jedi series and the Lost Tribe of the Sith, plus all the new old republic books and it's just getting me EXCITED! Woohoo!
 
I think a big part of why I liked Isle of Quel'danas was that the whole server was working towards unlocking things, so even if I couldn't be on, the goal was still getting accomplished. It was fun logging in, heading to the Isle, and talking to people in General Chat, asking how our progress was, helping out with PvP, etc. Plus, the game was still pretty new to me. I feel like now... I know every zone, a lot about each class, my own class inside and out, and there's just no mystery left.

I hammered out a good post in the WoW forums about how I felt when I first played the game. Amazed at the huge world and all there was to see in it. I remember doing such things as:

1. Training leatherworking and skinning on my mage because they were the first professions I came across. I saw I could only train two professions, so I passed right by the Fishing Trainer after learning Leatherworking and Skinning, thinking I couldn't train it. I quickly found out I couldn't wear anything I was making, but the vendors would BUY the items I was making! I was going to be RICH!

2. Exploring the Tower of Azora because it sounded so cool, and there just had to be some evil wizard in there. (I was disappoint)

3. Refusing to be bound to a zone by my low level and swimming (yes swimming) from Westfall to a mysterious land with strange rock formations, and where large spiders and dinosaurs roamed. Having been killed by one of these, I resurrected at a strange stone formation with three large stones leaning against one another, with a fire in the middle. I knew this was an important place of some sort. I couldn't wait for the day when I would be high enough to fully explore this zone and learn all of it's secrets. I now know this zone to be the Arathi Highlands, and I also know that it holds very very few secrets, and hardly any of them are interesting.

4. Leveling to 18 and going into Duskwood for the first time. I was literally nervous in real life as I went down the path trying to avoid the monsters that lurked on every side.

5. Leveling in Elwynn, and seeing a player ZOOM overhead on a flying lion-bird! (WHAT WAS THAT?! I can't wait til I can fly in this game!). Turns out it was just someone taking a flight path to Redridge.

There's none of that left anymore. Even new zones don't quite bring that back for me, as I approach them with an experienced eye.

Maybe I've just been playing too long...
 
I just got 7 days free. Logged in. Fixed up the addons. Logged in.... 5 minutes. Don't think I'll be back on.
 
I felt like this like a year ago and just quit....>.>

so....

yah
 
Flamethrøwer said:
4. Leveling to 18 and going into Duskwood for the first time. I was literally nervous in real life as I went down the path trying to avoid the monsters that lurked on every side.
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Lol I felt the same way when I first went there. The music and scenery was just so spooky, you're just waiting for some forest boogie monster or gigantic spider to pop out and eat you.

But I agree with you, its starting to get redundant. Its getting to the point where its no longer about getting on to have fun and do stuff with guildees, but instead to do dailies and get gear so I can raid. It's funny how whenever I'm playing a lowbie alt just to experience a new class/role, I don't know what it is but I always end up thinking about how I'll get geared the fastest and be raid ready as soon as I can once I hit 85. And then I realize in order to do that I have to do Molten Front dailies on yet another character...I remember back when I started playing I was excited about everything and thought it all was so awesome. "I get to fly now? Sweeeeet!" I mean, the whole Molten Front area was pretty cool at first, exploring all its little secrets and such. But now its like...been there done that...
 
this is why i quit and plat rift now. its really nice to not know EVERYTHING about the game. and yes, bring on SWTOR and guild wars 2!!!!!!
 
Personally, RIFT is the most impressive MMO I have played in a long time, maybe the most. That being said, the same things applies and now at max level I am bored with dailies and queuing for expert dugeons. I don't want to spend my gaming time running around the main town on my mount waiting for something to pop.
 
Looking forward to trying both of them. I'm going to try to resist the urge to use fansites or anything outside my own research for a long time.
 
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