Personally, I find that most of the fun in WoW happens when I am off to do something else. Sit myself in LFG, then run off to do fishing daily, or maybe picking up some posies for mats. In inevitably, I’ll be automatically invited to some run. If that fails,

I have really started enjoying participating in Wintergrasp (lock on a tank ftw)! Heck, may even consider trying out the other pvp portions..
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Perhaps the more pertinent point to be made from all this is, “What’s left to do in the game that isn’t a mind-numbing grind?” Although Stompalina obviously does have the time to do more than AFK in Dalaran, are there achievements yet to be had for her that are any more interesting? Is grinding rep with the Zandalar Tribe any more rewarding than doing barrel rolls in the Dalaran sewers? Maybe. For many though, I suspect that ticking off items in ye olde nerd point list doesn’t rank very high on the “what I’d like to get out of WoW” list. As you essentially stated, the allure of WoW for many is the chance to go fight new bosses, obtain new loot and improve their playstyle: in short, raiding. If raiding is your game, so to speak, the other trivial minutiae WoW offers isn’t very fun at all.

Now, I’m not trying to diminish playing alts or racking up as many achievement points as possible, but increasingly, it feels as though those little “side items” are things being added to the game in order to distract players from a lack of new and different content. More and more, the game seems to be less of a worthwhile time investment and more a system devised to facilitate busywork and instant loot gratification.

I wrote a post about this months and months ago (that never got published) called “Why, in the end, RP will win.” Ultimately, the folks who are going to be the “most” satisfied through and through are the RPers – they’re “making” their own fun within that limited world. It’s a shame there’s such a crazy stigma associated with it, and that it’s seemingly difficult to break into. I’ve played (incidentally) on two RP servers over the course of my “WoW career,” and I’m not sure I ran into any RP on either of them.

When the game exists in such a state that it’s nearly impossible to be surprised by anything anymore (unless you live in a hole, I suppose), it’s difficult to get excited.
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My horde guild usually stagnates during the summer months right until about Thanksgiving of the year. When this happens, I have my alliance porjects. This year, my project was on the Shadowsong server, and all my projects will fall there from now on.

With both sides of the fence at 80, there is still a lot to see and do! I’ll toss my jogging shoes into the bank for now. I don’t think the other joggers will miss me…
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