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What Happens When You Are "Done?"

I've touched on this before, when talking about a lack of end game in the current content. But once again I personally have reached an interesting point in the life of my Paladin. When Wrath first came out, and I first got a look at all of the loot tables I spent a great deal of time planning my gear. I found every piece I wanted, determined what was the best in each slot, debated what set bonus were worth while, and finally came up with my "gear plan." More or less I  decided exactly what I wanted my character to look like when I had everything I wanted.

Well last week I reached that point. With the exception of a few changes I made along the way as I gained a better understanding of end game bosses, my gear is exactly how I wanted it.

What I am saying is there are no longer any pieces I want to drop, I have it all! There may be a few side grades here and there, but nothing that I absolutely must have for my character. There are no upgrades for me, so to speak.

I know a few other people that find themselves in this same situation. It is interesting to see how they are dealing with it. I, for one, love raiding. I don't plan on stopping, but at the same time there is little reason to go anymore. Sure, I am still chasing down a few last achievements, but gear as a motivation is completely out of the equation. In a certain way, I feel like I have beaten the unbeatable game.

Others in my shoes it seems have stopped playing all together, meanwhile I have been burying myself in an alt (loving the shaman!). I find myself logging on my paladin only for raids, and even then I am willing to sit out if another tank is chasing a drop. I really feel like I have been left no choice but shelve my main, at least until Ulduar.

I know I can always find something to do, but I am hard pressed to find something I want to do. It is such an odd feeling, and one I have never experienced before.

Any of you guys finding yourself in the same boat (or have you in the past)? If so, how are you feeling about it?

Reader Comments (44)

I have reached a similar point with my Resto druid. No upgrades can come from raids, and running heroics is a waste of time as i am exalted with the 4 factions you can use the tabards in heroics with.

I only use my druid for raiding, helping gear up other guild people in heroics, but mostly making potions and exlirs. I can see the price raising a lot when people start raiding Uldar and the demand for them goes up.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLuke

Yep, I get that exact feeling every time I finish the non-raid content in the latest expansion. I have never raided, I don't see the point in raiding, and I doubt I'd find it fun. Repeating the same dank dungeon 100 times for gear, so I can repeat the next dank dungeon 100 times for gear, doesn't sound like my idea of fun. But I've played WoW since release (with many breaks, no real motivation to play unbroken lengths of time if you don't raid) and have loved every minute of it.

Alts are how I spend my time.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJaz

I tottaly get what you mean, as a druid healer to begin with I just started gearing up for tanking. I also spent a lot of time levelling alts. Luckily there was a content patch coming up so I never got to the point where I considered giving up WoW :)

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterNuvali

there is a point to raiding. god you are so fucking stupid.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterYo

I hear ya man, I got to that point about a month ago with my resto shammy, and just flat out sold my account to a friend. Haven't played since and I don't miss it at all. I'm actually looking forward to SWTOR more than anything else. Could there be an end to WoW in the upcoming years??

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterjonesian

I don't run in to this problem as I keep many alts. I have 3 80's currently. Once question though, is that SS your tanks actual character sheet? If so it looks to me like you have lots of upgrades possible, your stats are a decent amount lower then a end game geared tanks.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSean

I quit about 2.5 months ago.

Could have gotten... 3-4 more upgrades on my raiding char. Have 5 characters above 60 to level, 3 above 70... and couldn't do it any longer.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLyellin

I just quit after playing since release. I was just plain bored after hitting 80 and going through Naxx and had no motivation to go on to Ulduar.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMattb4rd

I touched on this in the forums. I started playing Warhammer again, and continue to invest in SF4 competitivly. I log in once a day to WoW to do my jc daily then log off. Theres nothing for me to do on WoW at the moment. PvP gets old, I am honor capped and mark capped, and I don't feel like investing more time for gear that may be increase my dps by small margins its not a big enough gap for me to want to spend time on. Right now I'm just waiting for 3.1

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commentersevink

Correction: I misread the stats. They are fine. My bad.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSean

I've been burning time and excess gold, by working on my achievements. I've dragged my guild into getting the raid achievements and been grinding rep and marks for the mount achievements. The most time consuming thing I'm doing is catching up on all the quests i missed.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commentermacbethy

I have 3 level 80s: a Priest, Hunter, and Mage. All 3 have entirely separate mechanics and gear. My mage has been mostly devoted to pvp, and I've found I spend a lot more time with pvp then I did before. Since Deadly is finally starting to come in for me =D pvp has been a good inspiration for me. My level 80 hunter and priest are both raiders, and both are as near-perfect gear as I want them. (Priest more then hunter, since I'm going with him for Ulduar) So I understand what you mean, and I don't raid all that often anymore either. Too busy burying my head in far too many arenas every single day.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterIllithian

Btw. By "Deadly gear starting to come in" I meant soon to come. For now, hateful it is.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterIllithian

Cooking Daily, Storm Peaks daily for chance at mount, check if latest egg has hatched, log off.

It sucks when you beat an MMO.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEpinephrine

What about achievements? In my case, I just play to solve them.

If Juggy is still not totally done with his achievements, then we are light years to totally finish the game.

@ Epinephrine: Yeah, it does suck.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJuanin

thank god for alts eh? hopefully 3.1 will not only give us more than enough content-but hopefully it's gonna take more time to finish it all.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkiley

I'm simply at the point (main is a hunter), that I just want to get achievements and upgrade. I haven't gotten all upgrades (still don't have any T7.5), but raiding isn't all that I want with that. Raiding for me is the social aspect and the lore/scenery. Yes, I too have been buryed into an alt. Two to be exact. My level 32 Warrior, who will be prot at 70; and my level 44 Druid, who will be resto at 70. I find leveling a great fun again, now that I'm already at 80. I'm still addicted to him, but I get on to just raid mostly, or go after this achievement or farm.

Anyway, good point you're posting.
Keep up the always great work.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLaeltis

This is odd for me, as I am in the completely opposite camp: I don't have enough time to log on and complete ANY of the endgame content that has ever been released. Something bigger and more unobtainable always comes up, which can be rather frustrating. I've played WoW since it was Vanilla flavor, and so I've had one of each class, most of which I'll get to about 20 and then ditch in favor of my mains. But I still haven't ever experienced a full raid, just cheesed thru the old school content solo with my DK.

I love the dungeon designs in this game, and its a shame that they're considered obsolete after the rest of you guys all get capped out.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWML

im just overall bored with the game.these days.. i come on to say hi to my friends that ive known since the beginning of wow.. sit around talk more.. maybe do a pvp match then log off. i have no interest in "farming gold" its just boring, and i hate being bored.. raiding comes along and its the same dungeon over and over.. till you get what you want...pointless.

i come on to talk and that's it these days, 15 bucks to say hi! lol.. its funny.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDein

I cannot understand people getting bored with WoW, IMO, there are no excuses!

Set you eyes on a long-term achievement.

Level an alt.

Get an unneeded luxury on your main.

Make a level 1 alt and torment trade on your server.

How can you run out of stuff to do!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Or maybe its just me =)

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterNebyula

I'm in a country with crappy internet for now, so I haven't had the chance to do much endgame. A few heroics and stuff. Jus trying to gear up, plus my guild is casual.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKillmickey

I came to the same conclusion on my Prot Pally... so I respecced Ret and have started collecting dps gear, in anticipation for dual spec in 3.1.

March 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAsyluhm

Hang in there Bast. LK has given us many a time consuming achievement or luxury item to hunt after that I often feel I spend TOO much time in the game. I myself am a bitch of an achievement whore. Having nearly 5k achievement points on my main, I continue to strive through the tabs of achievements just to be active in game. Yes, Naxx gets boring the 100th time you run it, but hey, at least frogger keeps it interesting. Or maybe pulling all of the trash from Fearlina to Maexxna and seeing your mages pulling 45k DPS. But I digress. Pull a Juggy and strive to cap your achievements, keep at it with your alt, (I myself have 4 of them) and there's always something to do in game.

March 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTick/Play/Muse/Duck

i reached this point on my fury warrior a few weeks ago, however i have managed to occupy a good deal of my time with the "Glory of the hero" achivement (just 3 more to go and i get the red proto =D). aswell as useing the hundreds of extra emblems if gotten to gear out a full list of alts with BoAs, which is something totaly new to me being a 1 char player for years now.

March 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTorage

Im basically at this point with heroics, i can no longer really gain from them becides getting t7(which i would rather gather in raids) and my guild can't seem to get a nax10 run off the ground so i feel like im stuck leveling alts : (

March 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAlysiumX

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