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World of Warcraft Community Magazine // 19
bunch of raiding noobs and we learnt together. The whole
thing was still so exciting and new, despite us now being
into our second expansion. I was loving spending time
with WoW but this excitement was sadly not to last.
Cataclysm will always be a bittersweet time for
me. My Wrath guild had imploded in the aftermath
of a RL crisis and I was left lonely and guildless in
a world devastated by Deathwing. It was then that I
made a decision that still affects me today. I hit up the
new fangled guild finder and I joined a random guild
I liked the name of. When I entered this guild I found
a bunch of people I immediately clicked with and my
journey through Cataclysm (and life) changed forever.
As my guild life improved my love affair with WoW was
waning. I really struggled with the Cataclysm levelling
content. The old world change just didn’t sit right with
me. Along with the sweeping changes to talent trees,
classes and game play I felt like WoW was trying to be
efficient and organised but had lost a piece of its soul.
I limped on by clinging to my guild and focusing on the
social side of the game but my love was beginning to fade.By Tina Guglielmi I left WoW again in record time. I got one character
Pandaria did little to improve my feelings towards
WoW. I enjoyed having new zones, but I couldn’t
get on with the Monk class and I didn’t enjoy the
dailies. I felt like there was less and less around to
hold my interest, especially once Garrosh was killed
and we had no new expansion in sight. I stopped
playing shortly after our guild completed the Siege
of Orgrimmar. I had officially broken up with WoW.
I dabbled with other games during this time, but never
found anything that held my interest like WoW did. So
when Warlords came out with it’s snazzy trailer and it’s
big promises I gave my old flame another chance.
However, it was not to be. Although Warlords promised
so much, the introduction of Garrisons broke the game
for me. Suddenly you could do everything in one place,
all by yourself. Herbs and Ore became worthless, trade
skills weren’t valued as the Garrisons offered so many
hacks and even gear was gained by sending someone
else to do your dirty work. I felt like WoW had stopped
putting in the effort. Suddenly I was expected to do all the
housework while WoW sat on it’s backside eating crisps.
to level 100 and found no joy in end game and had no
desire to level again. It’s complacency had killed my
love for it and our time apart was longer than ever
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