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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Tue, 09/25/2007 - 21:38 — Qwertius
In wow I need something to work towards.... and when I reach it, I fall into a void.
I had good fun collection the money for epic mount. Now I have one and I don't collect money anymore.
I was busy getting exalted with Aldor to get the epic sword.. Now I have it and I don't use a sword build... (instead I bought a 1600g Dagger)
I made sure I was Karazhan attuned shortly after getting to lvl 70. Now it's 6 weeks later and I still haven't found time to enter the dungeon (although this might be affected with my past, having cleared Kara often enough in my previous warlock life) If it was all new I would certainly be more eager to go)
I had a blast getting LW up to 375 at the cheapest possible way.. Now I have it and I never felt the urge to get more Nethers to craft more items
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I envy your ability to stick to a(ny) goal you set foward and push until you've achieved it. Me, I've discovered, I am easily distracted by profession, grinding, saving money that it sometimes feels as if I'll never reach the "end".
Man, I wish I had that level of pure, raw ability! I need goals too, but mine are nowhere near as lofty or as grand. I'd settle for: "Ding 70 and craft Frozen Shadowweave". Oh and get a Flying mount. Simple things. Baby steps. You rock, Qwertius.
I know the feeling. I need to be able to have some progress left left in sight still or I grow bored real fast.
Currently, that's the problem with my druid. I could level the last 4 points of LW, but why ? Not like I'll need it any time soon. There's no gear upgrades left unless I go live PvP or I actually get back up the DKP ladder to snag some Raid drops.
And with so little going on at low levels, even alts aren't that appealing anymore.
I'm in a bit of a void myself, but for a different reason. I got Earthwarden finally last Thursday, I got it enchanted 30 minutes later with +35 agi. I realized it made a better DPS weapon than my DPS weapon, I was giddy.
Then I started looking to what I have to do next. There's gear I want to get here and there. There are PVP pieces I want, about 48k honor and 100 marks worth. There are several rep grinds (5 factions I can remember off the top of my head) some short grinds in the form of a couple instance runs, some LONG grinds. The rewards pale in comparison to the reward for effort put into getting cenarion rep, but are still a clear upgrade. I don't know where to start, and it's like the death of 1000 cuts.
To top it all off, all my effort has gone to building a formidable pve dps set, pvp dps set, and tanking set. First contact I have ever received from my new guild for raiding Kara was to ask me to respec resto. I'm thinking my +690 heal set won't cover the demand.
I'm pretty good at setting goals and sticking to it (in game). I dinged 70 and was my goal to get the cobrascale helm crafted, just recently got that (endless grinding for mats =_=). I wanted my assassination tunic and leggings, i got hte leggings on the first try, but ran reg mech endlessly for those things to drop, i ran it so many times i'm two more mech runs away from revered with sha'tar) but i finally got it.
I wanted my talbuk mount, i grinded mindlessly and endlessly on the ogres in nagrand, and now i have my talbuk. The only two other goals i have right now (besides doing BG's and Arenas for better gear) i to get exalted with scryers for the epic offhand dagger, and to get 5k gold for my epic flying mount, which i've been farming mines nonstop to get, and am almost half way there. But, because i was doing all this, and i've accomplished many of my goals not too long after dinging 70 on this toon, i'm burned out and have had no desire to play WoW.
I usually set my long-term goals on a low pitch. Sure, I want to get 5k gold for my epic flying mount, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna grind 1h every day. There's no fun in that and I have a busy RL schedule atm, so I just don't spend much and run the occasional AH scan. It will probably take me several months more to get there, but I will eventually =)
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