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Stress from WoW!!!!
MrTumN3s
Member Posts: 439
WoW has been making me want to shoot myself lately.
- I am a lvl 52 pally, who is struggling to keep quests organized
-Everywhere i go, theres always 10 more quests to pick up, and not enough time to get them all done
-Grouping for quests has a been a tremendous havoc, noone will do it
- I am in one of the top clans on my realm, but they're all lvl 70 jerks who only care about themselves( irony anyone)
-I cancelled my account in hopes of relieving myself from this stress( just 8 days ago)
-However, the worst was yet to be seen
-My dad, a WoW addict repremanded me for doing this and activated the account again.
-He soon forced me to play. lol
-I found myself once again, sitting in front of the screen, in Burning Steppes, sobbing.
-Yes i said sobbing, i am a little girl( i am really a boy, but i was pouting like a infant)
-I tried getting the easy quests done first, the ones where you just have to deliver messages.
-When this happened however, i fell tall upon more and more quests after handing them in.
- I said screw it, and decided to try my Pally quest.
- The quest is literally impossible. It wants me to collect stuff that it doesnt even tell you where it is.
- This began my " Give up on WoW phase"
-When this phase began, i began saying to myself. Screw this, just mess around since you cant get anything done you noob.
- Followed by this, i decided to do crazy things like run into Org, Thunder, UD and trying to get myself killed. Jumping off the cliff at winterspring. Tricking elf noobs to jump off the side of Teldrasil.
-Then came reluctance!!
- I said , SCREW WOW! And went back to FPS gaming
-Shortly i downloaded some sick mods for HL2( The hidden, Battlegrounds 2)
-After playing numerous hours on end of FPS gaming, i found myself once again looking into the eyes of the beast, WoW.
Sad and depressed, i sit here drained from boredom and am yearning for something to do. Sure i could go outside and do stuff, but eh.
Peaceout, MrTumN3s
P.S ( i better not get a warning for this, i did nothing wrong)
P.S.S ( i know i am a lazy arse noob, so flaming is practically useless, but you can still flame if you wish)
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
Comments
How about, "good luck to ya" ???
You are in the wrong guild.
You need to find one with people your own level. Of course lvl 70's don't want to quest with you.
That said the questing system in WoW doesn't promote team play. Rewards are not shared. Try City of Heroes for a much improved system of grouping.
Secondly, make a new character. More specifically, a character that you can pvp with and vent some of your anger and boredom out with. If you're not on a pvp server, get on one. If you're not on Horde, move to it. Alliance will, the majority of the time, lose any battlegrounds to Horde. Your new character should not be anything like your existing character (ie: don't make a hybrid class like pallies, druids, shamans). Try something you've never tried.
Lastly, find some friends. One of the lasting elements of MMOs is the community. If all you have to do is quest or level, it's more enjoyable with someone else. Make friends, sit around and chat, and eventually join a guild. Don't join a guild that's totally consumed with raiding. You'll get burned out very quickly. I hope this helps.
I used to sort of be like you and trust me forget WoW. Try other MMO's instead and see if you can find one you like better then WoW and which wont cause you to stress out. You will be all the better for it in the end.
Hell try alternative MMO's like sand-box types of MMO's which are not quest driven but player driven and community event driven. My first suggestion is to give Ryzom a try and then EvE-Online a try. In those games you can try and be whatever you like and focus on one thing or branch out if you like. Both games are skill based so you wont be locked into one style of game play. If you want to tank well then do some tanking to get better at it. If in Ryzom you want to be range dps or a magic user or both then use those skills to get better at them.
In Ryzom the best and only gear comes from crafting. You have to quarter animals to get mats or go harvesting and prospecting for nodes that give mats. Certian mats only drop in certian areas and some are even seasonal only ! The community is friendly and helpful and you don't have to worry about quests unless you want to be friendly with certain NPC tribes to be able to walk into their camps safely.
Guilds also actually matter in that game because they are people who will help you get geared up via crafting and people who you will be grouping with no matter what and you don't have to worry about being a low level lowbie since that is a skill based game as I said before.
In sand box games you set the agenda and you decide what you should do or not do. They won't hold your hand though and they wont be as liner and as scripted as WoW. If those don't appeal to you then give other more traditional MMO's a shot like EQ2, LOTRO, CoV/H etc... The point being is that don't go cold turkey when it comes to anything in life. Ease your way off MMO's by trying other ones and if you like those other games better and you aren't as stressed out you win/win.
Games I've played/tried out:WAR, LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, AoC, EQ1, EQ2, WoW, Vangaurd, FFXI, D&DO, Lineage 2, Saga Of Ryzom, EvE Online, DAoC, Guild Wars,Star Wars Galaxies, Hell Gate London, Auto Assault, Grando Espada ( AKA SoTNW ), Archlord, CoV/H, Star Trek Online, APB, Champions Online, FFXIV, Rift Online, GW2.
Game(s) I Am Currently Playing:
GW2 (+LoL and BF3)
Sometimes you need to take a break from any MMOs, like you from time to time I get tired of WoW too and go back to playing an FPS or RTS games for a week or two.
Good Luck
-Schonk
2: Don't try to do all quests. You are not supposed to do all of them. the reason there are so many quests is so you can chose which one you want to do.
3: Don't force yourself to play. only play when you feel like it.
4: You don't really have to do group quests. you can skip them without missing out. Like I said, there are plenty of quests for you to chose from.
I didn't like questing on lvl 52, instead i was visiting instances, they are a much quicker way to lvl
I never actually had problems with WOW, but if you stress so much then may be WOW isn't your type but you are still addicted to it. If that is how it is, then find something new to do, new game, new hobby, or what ever...
i hope this answered your question.
Personally I never do quests in MMORPGs unless I have to. Maybe thats why I don't like WoW. I prefer open ended games where the quests are created by me or other players. Good luck.
Anyway one bit of advice I'll give you is use thottbot: (http://www.thottbot.com) there you can find information on just about all the quests. Dont waste time trying to figure out how to do the quests, just read about them.
Also, the community is a lot nicer than WoWs. People have helped me out a lot with answering questions and giving me tips.
Looking for something new.
PvP is a good idea, and a alt, but BGing as a 52 in a 50-59 BG is like ugh!
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
Its so easy a caveman can do it.
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!