Casual WoW Player or Hardcore
Yes, I know. We have all read tons and tons of blog posts that explores the casual vs hardcore player before. I’m going to look at it a bit differently for this post. The question that I have in my mind right now is when does a WoW player decide to go from casual to hardcore?
This has really hit home to me this past weekend as I feel I am to a point where I could cross the line (once again) to go from casual player to hardcore. I have been getting more and more raid time in my guild and I’m just starting to realize how much more time I will have to put in to be able to perform at 110% for raids. Not only that but I am also chasing after a 2000 rating in the arena on my 2v2 team.
Farming honor for more arena gear, doing arenas, farming gold to respec back and forth from PvE build to PvP, farming gold for item repairs, along with farming mats for buff food and flasks for raids, and then raiding are all of the tasks that I will have to chase after each and every week if I want to compete with the top raiders in my guild and the top arena teams on my battlegroup. It was up until today that I just kinda made the slide to hardcore player without even realizing what I was doing. I have since slid back to reality.
Do most hardcore players just slide into being hardcore and consider themselves to still be casual players?
Deep thoughts, I know. I think that is the way it really happens to most hardcore players is that they become hardcore “accidentally” while trying to keep up with the top players. You really have to if you want to really be competitive is this game.
If I still want to maintain being a casual player (around 20 hours a week) I am going to have to decide to drop my raiding to zero that way I can still be competitive in the arenas or I will have to plan out every hour I spend to complete certain tasks. Isn’t that the point where it becomes like a job?
Anyway, I would be glad to here what some of you have done in order to limit play time down but yet still find time to raid and do arenas.
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