I fear it’s happened again. I hit 70 with my Shaman and my interest in playing her has dropped off. I’ve always been a huge fan of leveling characters. Getting to the next level, seeing what new skills I get, knowing there’s an area I couldn’t get to yesterday that will be open to me tomorrow, these are all aspects of progression I enjoy. But now that Myrendra is 70 all that’s left is getting better gear.
At this point we grind reputation, we grind honor, we farm instances all as methods to the same goal of better gear. This new gear let’s us enter new raid instances, and that’s about the only thing I find at all interesting about this whole process. Sure I’d love to be geared out in fantastic purple epics and riding a super l33t flying dragon but I don’t really want to grind hours every day to get the gold and such required. Grinding doesn’t equal fun.
I’ve started another alt. Of course I have. Heh. I’m still playing my Shaman, but only to run instances with people. The social group aspect is always fun. Running through a dungeon and trying to down things that are a challenge keeps me thinking and on my toes! That’s fun. But running around on my (super slow) flying mount and gathering herbs for hours? Nah, I can’t do too much of that. That’s not playing, that’s some sort of job and the one I have is more than enough of that. There are still dungeons I haven’t been into at all and I’d really like to get around to those, but not if the entry fee is hours of repetition. In the meantime, you’ll find me leveling another druid. Or maybe a warlock. Or maybe…