While I am looking forward to Dragonflight as an expansion, I have grown weary of all the logistics and drama and whatnot of doing endgame stuff. So I have the same feeling I had in Warlords when Legion was about to come out: no drive to be part of the rush. The last few weeks I have played less in a week than I did in a day this spring...
I have told the people I still play with on the regular I am not to be relied on for getting stuff done early in the expansion (going slow until january), and I was met with understanding, so there's that.
What I haven't decided on is what to actually do for the first one or two months. There's three options I've considered so far, and I'll just list them with some positives and negatives:
Play main account but slow or with horde alts
Positives
Will have all the collecting I will do on the old account.
Any potential networking I do will stick to the same account.
It's hard to let go of characters I have played for up to 18 years...
Negatives
People are bound to try to get me to do stuff with them. While they are doubting my sincere wish to not rush, I doubt my ability to say no, or not get mad at the pestering.
The pressure I put on myself when I see that everyone I know is way ahead of me, because my entire friends list are now "tryhards". I am doubting my ability to think about myself in isolation.
Accumulated bad blood, which doesn't affect anyone but me anymore, but not having that fleeting thought every time I log on would be nice.
Play on another account
Positives
Can play horde with the race/class combos I have wanted to for a long while. And get to have talent points while leveling up from low levels.
Can do all the leveling bits I never saw when Cata came out, Tirisfal Glades I already did and found out stuff I never knew.
A fresh start, with no cluttered banks, no expectations or obligations.
Negatives
Have to sub and get expansion on another account, that will be "lost" when/if I go back to my regular account.
Lose all the utility from collection built up over 18 years, the mounts and toys. I can always get another lumberjack shirt, so transmogs is not a loss.
There is a chance some of the people I have played with lately is simply going to have found another stable group that they push with, and I will be out of the loop when/if I return to main account.
Not play at all
Positives
A lot of time available for non-wow stuff I really want to do, without the temptation to log on and play the new stuff. Holds especially through the first 2-3 weeks of the season, which is smack down during the busiest holiday parts.
Can start playing once all the "live ptr" things are ironed out, god knows the beta and prepatch at the moment is a mess.
If I end up not playing for longer than 1-2 months due to doing things, it might be a good thing too.
All the stuff I want to do in Dragonflight I can do whenever during the expansion. The dragonriding, the professionstuff, the m0s to see the dungeons and the LFR.
Negatives
I like playing WoW at the moment, especially since I do it in sensible amounts for once. Taking a break/quitting just feels off. Had I played 10 hours a day or something right now it would make more sense.
There's a good feeling about doing something when it's fresh, and not figured out by everyone. Doing m0s when it's newish and people aren't overgeared compared to scaling and just blasting through. Figuring out the crafting without being bombarded with info from youtube feed, wowhead or whatever. I would enter the game when all the exploration and spoilers would have taken away that fresh feeling.
So it's a bit of a hard choice. Currently I am leaning into playing an alt account, and might just sub for a month on that until expansion release and decide the weekend before what account to buy the expansion for.
Some screenshots since a post should have some
Did 20 Upper and 20 Lower this week, and a couple of other dungeons. Before the patch I was guessing it would either be way easier or way harder, and it landed on way easier. It can be a bit rough to stay alive at times as a tank, but everyone's damage numbers have gone up a fair amount. As can be seen on overall in first screenshot and single target in second one.
Unless you are a survival hunter or destruction warlock, because your damage was your set bonus I suppose.
I have not done Tirisfal Glades since Cata came out... It was a bit nostalgic to do some of the old quests that wasn't redone really. But I have never understood where this Lillian Voss character came from, but that was revealed here.
As per, my goblin shaman was bugged out in the starter zone. I looked it up, and it looked like I should have gotten a quest on the ship that brought me here, but I didnt. So the character is stuck. The problem with narrative "fun stuff" like putting your character in a perma stun.
Having the talent points is more fun when leveling than at max level. It adds more variation at max level, but gaining one at every level and choosing your development just adds a lot more to the leveling experience and made it more interesting again.
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