inspiration

[welwyn]

right.. I have now lost all interest in doing things on wow. I have my main riading char at level 70 still yet i have had wotlk since it came out.. i have raf a lot of teams and i just cant seem to find the interest to play anymore.. i still have 3 weeks of raf left ( oh and i got laid off from work due to the job scare crysis thing) so i have plenty of time to play and all. i just... log on and am like yeah.. really need some inspiration to get me going again. like if anyone is going to be rerolling on another server (either multiboxing or single) on an EU realm if they wanted to play with me or .. i really dunno lol. anyway if anyone has come up with a blank like this before and got any ideas how to be reinterested in it all would be helpful. i dont think its the game as i still find it interesting when i play with my foster brother and his mate only trouble is only 5 in an instance i play 4 and him and his mate make 6..

[TheBigBB]

It doesn't sound like you have a plan, either for Warcraft or even for your post here. If I didn't have a framework of what I wanted out of my time playing this game, I would just quit, and I have done that a few times for months a while back when I had no goal I cared about accomlishing. Right now, what keeps me going is taking my personal multibox guild and making a 10-man team which can raid some content, do heroics, and fulfill ALL the needs I would ever want, including lockpicking every profession, alternate tanks and healers in case I need some different skills, and so on. This goal here is taking up all my gaming time, and makes the price of admission worth it for me right now.

Today my plan was to level my druid from zero professions to grand master skinner and leatherworking, because I don't want to do heroics and later on raids without having a chance at recipes dropping, and without the buffs that go with these professions now. Yesterday my goal was to gain 1/3 of a level on one team, which got me to 79. One step at a time.

And let me clarify, it's not that I am rigidly planning out things to do every day. I have a list in my head of 10 things I need to do and I pick the one that sounds like it would be fun on that day.

[Yamio]

When I got bored with Wow I quit, and didn't come back for over a year. Goals are really good to have when you're doing just about anything, but the most important thing to remember about Wow is that it's your entertainment. It's also important to remember burnout can happen even in a video game. If you're not having fun then it's time to move on to something else. For some people that may or may not be another game. Only you can answer that but by no means should it ever be a chore to login to something that's supposed to be providing you pleasure.

[willsquared]

Start a new team with the aspiration of getting every achievement in the game.

[Ualaa]

I'm pretty much in your boat, at the moment.
Only playing wow, because I have three teams in the low 50's, and 5 more days of RAF.
Would like them to be 60th each, and then maybe take a break.

[welwyn]

yeah after posting i realised it was more of a moan than an actual thread.. i have a few weeks left of RAF and many months of play still as i do it via 3 month option. as i say i still enjoy playing the game i just dont have the motivation to do things. i know i need a plan but everytime i try and make 1 i get sidetracked. i have 4 accounts and i know i need to setup a 2 dps tank and healer combo for instances was going to use pala, priest, mage and druid using the priest as healer and pala as tank. i have them all at level 44 from other groups apart from the pala and thats at 35. i have a weird RAF linkage though lol. 1 account is linked to 1 and another account is linked to another ( i had 2 accounts now got 4 ) on 1 main account that i have the pala on i have a 70 rogue i was thinking of powerleveling the other 2 linked accounts to a high level then using them to powerlevel the pala and the other last account up to same sort of level. reckon that would work? or would it be quicker to just get the pala boosted up to 44 like the others are and then run them all through instances normally. i dont have the gold ingame to pay for them all to be boosted in instances all the time though.

[Smahs]

This is called a WoW over dose. Players get it when they experienced everything in the game they can imagine too fast. Players usually solve this by switching to other MMORPG's or getting a life.

[SilverSlice]

i solve this by playing a bit of grand theift auto.
stealing cars, driving over gangsters and cops to get guns then drive around doing some dive by shooting

[Gadzooks]

yeah after posting i realised it was more of a moan than an actual thread.. i have a few weeks left of RAF and many months of play still as i do it via 3 month option. as i say i still enjoy playing the game i just dont have the motivation to do things. i know i need a plan but everytime i try and make 1 i get sidetracked. i have 4 accounts and i know i need to setup a 2 dps tank and healer combo for instances was going to use pala, priest, mage and druid using the priest as healer and pala as tank. i have them all at level 44 from other groups apart from the pala and thats at 35. i have a weird RAF linkage though lol. 1 account is linked to 1 and another account is linked to another ( i had 2 accounts now got 4 ) on 1 main account that i have the pala on i have a 70 rogue i was thinking of powerleveling the other 2 linked accounts to a high level then using them to powerlevel the pala and the other last account up to same sort of level. reckon that would work? or would it be quicker to just get the pala boosted up to 44 like the others are and then run them all through instances normally. i dont have the gold ingame to pay for them all to be boosted in instances all the time though.

Like TheBigBB said, you need a plan.

Pick something, like professions, or PvP gear, and just work on that. Distance yourself from the "grand plan", and focus on small, do-able things that you enjoy, or have to grind through (just get it over with kind of stuff). Baby steps, which lead to grown up steps.

I do this in my real life, have for a long, long time. I got myself out of a vicious depression cycle, when my life was chaos - relationship breaking up, bad job, serious money issues, etc... I would get up on a Saturday, and would be so overwhelmed with what I had to do, I would just go back to bed. LOL. Or veg out in front of the TV. But, I learned - just set yourself small goals, and accomplish them. Don't beat yourself up if you don't. Keep doing that. You'll find the bigger goals accomplish themselves along the way (most of the time). It really works, you have game overload, simplify what you're doing, and focus on smaller things, like achievments, or just exploring Wrath with a character or two - there's some great questlines in Wrath that are epic, and some that are very entertaining (the murlock king, for example).

Maybe take a couple days off, and just disconnect from anything WoW? I've done that many, many times. I find if I play 3 days a week, I stay interested - more, I burn out, fast. The other 4 days I don't go to WoW sites, don't read anything about the game, or even think about it. I play wow as a hobby, and I treat it as one, so there's room for other hobbies and activities and such.

WoW is very sneaky in that it encourages and develops a "gotta!" attitude about playing - gotta level, gotta get that gear, gotta get gold, gotta gotta gotta. It's why they have 11 million + players. Try to disengage from that mentality, and play for yourself, and forget about the rest of the WoW population. It might help you revive your interest in the game, if you approach it from another direction or perspective. Who cares what some kid in Nebraska thinks about my gear? Ya know? So it might take 8 months to get to 80 - so what?

And, there's nothing wrong with deciding that you need an extended break, either. The most you lose is your RAF time, after that, the game isn't going anywhere for quite a long time. It'll be here if and when you decide to come back.

[heffner]

Maybe just stop playing? It's odd to me that you need inspiration to play a game. If you get to that point I would not play and do something else. Especially given your situation, it would probably be a good idea to spend most of your time trying to find employment.

MMO's are a huge time waster. You will waste years of your life before you realize. I know I have. I probably lost three years of weekends due to playing MMO's. That's a lot of time, and no I wouldn't have been watching TV instead so that argument will fail, I would have gone and done something with friends. Get out while you can. Once you do it you won't regret it.

Good luck!