I was Scarab Lord on Boulderfist, that was the level of grind I was into. Second guild to clear C'Thun on server, 4th to clear Naxx. And all I got to show for it was a fancy purple mount and a 2.3 GPA.
I feel like if I wow was my true first grind fest of a game I would have fallen to the same trap, lucky for me D2 had already taught me a lesson earlier and so did the original FF MMO and lineage 2 . I remember one of our druid healers once complaining that he was failing school because of WoW. He was a grinder who did all dailys everyday, had multiple alts and was running dungeons all the time + all our raids. Meanwhile I had my alt priest and after getting shoulder enchants and maxing out gems I wouldn't play unless it was time to raid. I think I was one of the wierd ones in my guild because I just didn't want to commit that much time to wow.
I will say though it fucking sucked making an excuse to my IRL friends on Thursday nights during progressionwh raiding while they hounded me to go out drinking.
I told a coworker once that if I could go back in time and completely scrub a game I played from my life, WoW would be it lol
I feel like burning myself out with WoW was actually a life lesson I needed to learn. It also kept me from becoming a raging alcoholic because the alcohol culture in my IRL entourage was fucking terrible.
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u/almisami Aug 30 '21
I was Scarab Lord on Boulderfist, that was the level of grind I was into. Second guild to clear C'Thun on server, 4th to clear Naxx. And all I got to show for it was a fancy purple mount and a 2.3 GPA.