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Originally Posted by Regorium
Needing to play WoW as a 2nd job is a misconception from years past. I noticed you said you were playing in Vanilla, and while it was true back then, it's completely false now.
They've made a lot of changes to the game that really lets you play at your pace:
- LFD/LFR: Dungeon finder lets you press a button and enter a queue to play any dungeon and raid of your choice.
- PvP is all queue based as well. Press a button and join a random BG, or team up with other players and join arenas/rated BG's for more competitive play.
- Raid lockouts exist so you don't have to run the same raid 4 times in order to keep up with gear progression.
- Capped weekly Valor and Arena points limit how much you can benefit from just playing more than other people.
You can easily play maybe an hour a day and make progress in any almost any avenue you choose (except heroic-level 25 man raiding, which you'd probably need at minimum 3 hours a night 2 nights a week).
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Right, but every time they introduce a new season the treadmill starts again.
It is a constant struggle to keep up with the jones's for gear, and in PvP not having the same season of gear with the same gems/enchants as your opponent is a HUGE disadvantage.
And there is still a rift in gear, the top end players have a chance at earning the best PvP gear while my lower rating max honour/arena point half hour playing will get me a tier below them.
They reward a higher rating, I agree with this. The bad part for me is that a higher rating is usually related to a higher amount of game play, ie. developed skill.
I have been on both sides of the MMO world, and anyone that says you can casually play a MMO and still be in the top end of it (be it PvP skill or raiding gear) is a liar... especially to themselves.