Comments on: Adjusting to Life in the Casual Lane http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/ My Thoughts on Healing, Raiding, and being a Resto Druid Fri, 24 May 2013 12:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tehuantl http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/#comment-8636 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:21:03 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2832#comment-8636 Enjoy yourself Beru!

]]> By: scott http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/#comment-8633 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:09:58 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2832#comment-8633 The biggest adjustment I had to make after going back to work after an extended layoff due to a work injury (2 years), was not being on Vent with my guildies around the clock. Those Guild parties are awesome, but not the same now that I have to get up at 5am 6 days a week now.

]]> By: Weekend Open Thread: WoW Burnout » Mama Needs Mana | Mama Needs Mana http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/#comment-8628 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:22:44 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2832#comment-8628 [...] holds for his WoW play. Beruthiel from Falling Leaves and Wings quit raiding altogether and is now adjusting to life in the casual lane — something which seems to have opened up both her real life and life in Azeroth in ways she [...]

]]> By: Jen http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/#comment-8617 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:59:42 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2832#comment-8617 Also: yay for Hairspray!

]]> By: Jen http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/#comment-8616 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:56:24 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2832#comment-8616 Challenge modes are what excited me the most about this expansion. When I’d more or less decided to give up raiding at the end of Cataclysm, challenge modes convinced me to buy Pandaria. One of my fondest memories is getting Glory of the Dungeon Hero in Wrath with my boyfriend and our friends; I really hoped I could do challenge modes with them… but since those friends are no longer playing, I haven’t had the motivation to look for a different group. My guild has recently stopped raiding 25s however, so maybe that means more opportunities for other things…

My experience with quitting raiding was a bit different from everyone else’s (in this comment thread, at least): without raiding, I don’t see the point of logging into WoW… but I don’t want to go back to raiding either. It’s definitely the people who make this game worthwhile for me, and ever since my best WoW friend (who was also part of our Glory of the Dungeon Hero group) quit the game, WoW has been on the backburner for me.

]]> By: Kaelani http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/#comment-8615 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:02:07 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2832#comment-8615 First time poster, long time reader. After reading about your raid team disband, it felt like a situation I went through right before Firelands came out in 2011. Both my then-boyfriend and I were officers in the same 25M raiding guild and we were about to get married out of state and didn’t have time to raid for the foreseeable future. 2 core leaders being gone as well as other officers being burned out led to the decision to disband the raid team. I felt guilty for a long time about “wasting” 23 other people’s time and breaking up their fun. But it was what needed to happen. After the wedding (and moving), I started to log on WoW again and felt directionless and out of place as well. After having raided my entire WoW career (that started in Vanilla), it felt weird not to raid. But as weeks passed, I loved the free time I had on my hands and loved that I didn’t HAVE to log on. WoW no longer felt like a job anymore as it had started to long before we quit. Although my WoW break only lasted about 9 months, it allowed me to come back to the game I love and start a casual yet serious 10M team. I raid with people I love only 9 hours a week and it has been wonderful so far.

Long post short, I wanted to say good for you for deciding what is best for you and your husband and putting yourself first. I also wanted to wish you luck in the baby area. I know what that’s like as my husband and I are in the same boat! I look forward to your continued posts about whatever is on your mind! :)

]]> By: Rholm http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/#comment-8614 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:02:08 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2832#comment-8614 I am really happy for you, Beru (and Brade)!

You certainly both deserve the casual WoW gameplay and free time to do whatever that pleases you.

Much love,

Rholm

]]> By: MPP http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/adjusting-to-life-in-the-casual-lane/#comment-8613 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:37:27 +0000 http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2832#comment-8613 I’m glad you’re finding your footing along the way- I know it hasn’t been easy. I was in the exact same shoes when I finally retired from raiding, and like you, I had done it for so long that I actually forgot to have fun in WoW. When I logged in for the first time after stepping down, I literally didn’t know what to do either! I had my routines of doing dailies, gathering ores and herbs for my profs that I’d need to craft things for the auction house and so on. All of that was defined by raiding, and when I stopped raiding, it sort of made all of my routines pointless.

I finally asked myself this question, “Why am I even playing this game if it isn’t to raid anymore?” I found out the same answers as you did- that the game is what you make of it too. I figured out that I just needed to find other things to do- like dungeons and exploring, things that I never took the time to enjoy when I was raiding full time. So there’s still a reason to play WoW, and that’s to just have fun doing other things that WoW has to offer.

It’ll still take a while to get used to, but getting adjusted to it is fairly straightforward once you start spending more time on your other hobbies to fill that hole WoW left behind. That’s really the only advice I can give- get busy with your life outside of WoW, and everything will sort itself out :) I subscribed to your other blog- not ’cause I’m a mom, but because I hope to become one someday, and I can look to your blog. Maybe I’ll learn things from your blog, as I did as a raider reading your WoW blog. You’ve been an inspiration to me and I really hope you’ll continue writing- you really do have a lot to contribute. Take care, and don’t forget to have fun in life :)

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