WoW Anxiety

On this 10th day of Blaugust I finally get a break from all the craziness that is work. I didn’t have to get up early, I didn’t have to drive into the office, and I didn’t have to figure out how to accommodate ill written requirements and how they fit into my application. Instead I got to relax. I got to sit at my computer reading comics. I got to sit at my computer playing games. And I realized I got to sit at my computer anxious about the idea of jumping back into World of Warcraft.

I’m not usually worried about the games I play, usually they’re what allows me to decompress from work but for some reason I found myself worrying about a couple things. First was the classic servers. I have been paying absolutely no attention to the classic servers and honestly they don’t impress me. I was never in love with classic WoW, it was just a game. Yeah, it was harder and there was more of a grind, but it was just a game. The main reason my friends and I moved over to WoW was the lack of loading screens.

Yup, we were trying out various MMOs before they were a dime a dozen – Everquest, City of Heroes, and WoW were the ones we tried and I really fell in love with City of Heroes. My buddy on the other hand enjoyed the fact that in Warcraft we didn’t have to suffer loading screens. So we played WoW. Anyway, I know classic is coming but I’m not even sure I’m gonna give it a shot.

The other part about WoW that causes me anxiety is the fact that every time I go into the game it seems there are so many changes I have not idea what’s going on anymore. And that’s a problem when I enjoy playing a healer. I can’t heal others too well when I barely know how to keep myself alive in the game.

So as I sat there this morning watching the Blizzard updater applying a patch, I chickened out. I was just too fearful of jumping in on my 101 level Druid (yes level 101 because I stopped shortly after experienced these same problems in the previous expansion) so I left the game and went on to other things. At least the game will be ready for me next time when I actually decide to play.

Have you ever found yourself too anxious to jump on a character in a game you’ve put hundreds of hours in on?

Ramble 37 | WoW Anxiety