Help! losing interest!

[Benzin]

What are somethings you guys do to keep interested in wow when you start getting bored by it?

[lilatha]

Recently I have lost my interest in WoW and trying to get back by making alts, and when I do feel like playing my main I collect say .. mini pets or gear that look nice ^^ lame I know but ingame it keeps me amused.
Or while playing WoW Ill doodle away while waiting for randoms or a spawn.
There are some mini game addons you can get to like the ones on curse I use to have the Peggle one during Wrath mainly as I would fall a sleep during raids D:

[VelkynKarma]

You can always try making a new alt. I usually find going to the opposite faction helps a lot too; you see things from a different perspective there that you wouldn't otherwise.

Try things you don't normally do. Normally a PVE-er? Try a little PVP. Normally a healer? Roll a baby tank. Learning new ways to do things is not only useful but might keep you engaged since it's not 'same old, same old.'

As for me though...sometimes, it really DOES help to just take a break. I am an on-again-off-again player. I usually play straight through for a couple months, then lose interest for a few weeks to a month, then come back. It's refreshing to take a break and do different things, then come back and find myself REALLY getting into the game again.

Whatever you decide to do, hope it works for you

~VelkynKarma

[GormanGhaste]

Sometimes when I'm feeling at loose ends, I'll go through my unfinished achievements and pick one to work on.

Also, I will sometimes just fly around and explore little out of the way places.

[Acherontia]

Achievement-whoring.

7.5k points, Mountain of Mounts, going for Exalted etc.

Even so, bored to HELLLLL.

[Saturo]

Cata is a boring expansion overall.

I always tend to lose interest in the game every now and then. I'll just take a week-two weeks off, and then play for a month. Now in Cata I find that it's dropped to one week playing per two weeks not playing. :/

[lilatha]

Acherontia Im on 8.1k and it gets worse D: You start running out of simple ones to do and end up wasting 2 weeks for 10 achiv points it is fun and keeps you interested but omg when you look back on it XD

[Mearra]

Being someone who plays.....way too much...I have to say I go through that fairly often.
The thing is that for the times you really don't feel like playing, don't. If you feel like you are forcing yourself, then it's work and not a game and you'll be doing more damage than good.
You're better off going and playing some console game, getting some work done around the house, doing some chore/duties that you've been procrastinating on then forcing yourself to play WoW while continuing to procrastinate on RL things.
For when you feel more "hmmm maybe I could play??? I dunno" kind of moods, then yes, make an alt, pvp, do the achievement/questing, go find a rare, work on some toons professions, who knows. The game is so large there's pretty much an unlimited amount of things to do, but if you are forcing yourself it doesn't matter how many things there are out there to keep you busy, you're just going to make yourself sick of the game and burn yourself out.

I go through this a lot because of raiding. So what I'll do is any of the above I previously stated, or step away do other things around the home and play some console game I've been putting off (going back to Dragon Age right now since Dragon Age 2 is coming out soon). This way when it comes to raid time I'm not wanting to shoot myself in the head to log on.

Don't get me wrong, I love downing content, just when you're in that mind set you'll find anything negative to ruin the experience. If you don't have a raid to tie you to the game specifically, then of course, like it's been stated, taking a small vacation from it can do wonders.

Near the end of Wrath my guild was done with all raid content, I was bored, so I took Mearra out rare hunting, when that was done...I levelled alts on completely different servers (pvp ones at that) to have a different experience overall. It was easy to level toons on my server, I had heirlooms, I could craft things for my alts, they've have the best gear and friends could help out when things got rough...and no ganking. On a new server without knowing anyone? Totally new experience and oddly enough...a bit of a relief when you don't have people constantly poking at you to do something for them. I think at one point I only logged on for raids while I went and played through a bunch of other games again (Assassins Creed etc) and went to other friends houses to nerd out in different ways.

Hope you find something to keep you going
-Mearra
Oh and let us not forget, quality time with our real life pets is always a nice relief ^^.

[zedxrgal]

As already mentioned, when boredom sets in take some time off from the game. After all, it is only a game.
Adjust your time off for your boredom level. The greater the boredom the more time off needed.

Just to keep things fun though I hunt rares, run dungeons /heroics just for giggles, achievements, even playing in the AH looking for things to wear even if I don't need them. Another thing is be in an active guild and do things with them. That will help a lot.

[Teevo]

I completely agree with the above comments of not forcing yourself to play. Just play when you want to. This game has -tons- of stuff to do, you just have to decide whats fun for you

[SpiritBinder]

Cata is a boring expansion overall.

I know they have done soooo much work improving quests, graphics, implementing better ways of doing things, etc... but that does not necessarily mean that there are more things to do, once your reach lvl cap anyway. Upon making things easier and more stream lined has actually made it easier and thus faster to even get through content.

Now I'm all for making things work better, but I feel with this expansion that it has come at a cost of content, and have to agree with Sat's on this one. Lately my wow gaming experience has been made up of 80% of going back and doing old world content. Grinding out reputations, collecting mounts, running old instances for fun/vanity items.

These are the things one does generally at the end of an expansion when there is little left to do, not at the beginning. For those thinking (well have you completed all the raids on heroic and got all BIS gear? well no you haven't finished anything) sorry, but my guild is just not there as we are all a little disillusioned but this random onset of boredom at the moment.

I know, each to there own, but still, I am finding it easier and easier not to log on at times.

[Adam-Savage]

What are somethings you guys do to keep interested in wow when you start getting bored by it?

I've already started to get to that point. Raiding can be fun but after awhile you get sick of going into the same place every single week doing the same thing..It's to repetitive and it's the same thing. You kill a boss to get gear so you can kill another boss faster or get more gear. Rinse and repeat. In wrath I always found something to do other then raids.. Cata.. I don't know what it is but I just get bored...

[Chimera]

When i lose interest i make an alt. And then i get bored of them and make another one. Etc, etc.

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I need to clear out my Character Sheet. I have too many alts. Its what ya get when you get to a certain point and you just looooath having to do the same quests all over again for the 30th time lol xD Another thing i do, camp rarespawns. I like to draw or think of some poetry while im camping as well to waste the hours ^^

[Adam-Savage]

I'm probably going to drop my mining for skinning on my hunter. I can make about 800g a hour just skinning and skinning in tol bard. Min on my druid. mining is boring to tears on my server now and the amount of gold you get for a stack isn't worth the time put in anymore.

[Mearra]

I also don't see it being that bad at not wanting to log on every day/all the time. It's an addictive game, being able to walk away from it to do things in our actual real lives, that's a good thing

[Novikova]

I work on my archy (Dang that recipe ><), working on getting the winds cards, but yeah. I have plenty of homework to do and chores and my roommate likes to make sure I get some sun despite being an engineering major and what have you.

[Ketchaeatcha]

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[erwil]

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Uh.. Not very constructive if I can be honest. Let's not turn Petopia into MMO-Champ.

I very recently decided to take a break from raiding. The content tasted stale and I and my guild mates were overly stressed out. Like one of our raiders said, when he was grinding herbs for 3 hours for a weapon enchant "wth am I doing this for.. This is not fun anymore". I want to get back that "new" feeling what WoW was for me when I started years and years ago. I want to enjoy the game again.

I've decided to transfer my main to an RP server. I've enjoyed roleplaying in the past and met very many fun people and made lots of friends. If you're interested in story telling, I'd suggest you give roleplaying servers a try. It's something a bit different and fun to do in the meanwhile.

WoW is a hobby I don't want to give up on just yet. I don't want to lose the social aspect and it's one of the few hobbies I've got at the moment.

[FuzzyDolly]

I also am bored with WoW. I have decided that I am going to take 1 of every race thourgh their new starting areas. Then I'll rotate the races and level them to 85. I figure that should easily take me to the next expansion lol.

[Arwyn]

I'm bored with WOW and trying to come up with some tactic to get me back in. I tried rolling an alt put within 5 minutes I got bored because the thrill of exploring the new zone was gone since I had already been in the area on another alt. I'll probably have to find some type of crazy achievement to work on to get me interested again.