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    Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Nov 23, 2004

    World of Warcraft is an MMORPG that takes place in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe. At its peak, it boasted a player base of over 12.5 million subscribers, making it the most popular MMO of all time.

    What to do in WoW when you get bored.

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    Edited By bune

    I just downed Lich King for the first time this past week, and was very excited about it. Although that really didn't last long, after about an hour after the raid, I found myself getting very bored. granted theres still gear to get, and heroics to work on, but i want to find something else to do on WoW. Any suggestions would be good, EX. A fun set of achievements to go after, or interesting quest lines to do.   

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    #1  Edited By bune

    I just downed Lich King for the first time this past week, and was very excited about it. Although that really didn't last long, after about an hour after the raid, I found myself getting very bored. granted theres still gear to get, and heroics to work on, but i want to find something else to do on WoW. Any suggestions would be good, EX. A fun set of achievements to go after, or interesting quest lines to do.   

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    #2  Edited By mazik765

    Run around Dalaran and troll trade chat...isn't that what you're supposed to do?
     
    In all seriousness though when I played WoW I spent a fair bit of time minipet/mount hunting. So if that interests you, you might want to go for those achievements to get the special minipets/mounts.

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    #3  Edited By ChristianCastillo

    DANCE

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    #4  Edited By zeforgotten

    I Roleplay! 
    Yes yes, you can all hate me now.

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    #5  Edited By deathstriker666

    Go outside

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    #6  Edited By TotalEklypse

    grief lower level players in other faction. or play another game.

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    #7  Edited By BatmanBatman

    Try to find Time-Lost Proto drake....

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    #8  Edited By spaceturtle

    ...quit playing that sadass game?

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    #9  Edited By Sabata

    Stop playing. 
     
     
    ...or go after the Explorer achievement.

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    #10  Edited By bune

    Thanks for the suggestions guys, I think I may try for the time lost proto drake, as for explorer i already got it. And i do go outside......when the servers are down.

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    #11  Edited By Bam_D_Leprechaun

    man, i sure don't miss the sheer boredom that WoW creates inbetween raids and stuff

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    #12  Edited By ComradeKritstov

    Dungeon Finder.

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    #13  Edited By plop1920

    Duel in durotar
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    #15  Edited By Hourai

    Go fishing, get achievements, or play an alt. 

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    #16  Edited By secretagent099

    Anticipate starcraft 2 and give Blizzard your soul. Oh wait you already did that.

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    #17  Edited By MaddProdigy

    The whole game is something to do. Achievements and Quests are for straight nublets though. I suggest soloing old dungeons like Magisters Terrace for rare mounts, raiding Ally towns and cities with just a few homies (or a big official raid), start characters on the other side (ally/horde) and screw with people, raid opposite faction starting zones, find glitches in cities (going under Org), dude the list goes on. As much as I like raiding, there's no challenge and it's barely fun unless your crew knows wassup. I much prefer the "boredom" in between. If you're all serious though, I suggest helping lower level guildies with whatever their working on, farming mats or gold for the guild, or PVP. Or just go outside. Whatever.
     
    Edit: Oh and the Time Lost Proto Drake. Yeah, don't waste your time unless you seriously research all the routes and are willing to devote two full weeks of 8+ hours a day to searching. Unless you improve your odds with stuff like that, it most for surely won't happen.

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    #18  Edited By Jeust

    Play something else. 

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    #20  Edited By cstrang
    @Sabata said:
    " Stop playing.  "
    /topic
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    #21  Edited By BabyChooChoo
    @bune said:
    " I just downed Lich King for the first time this past week, and was very excited about it. Although that really didn't last long, after about an hour after the raid, I found myself getting very bored. granted theres still gear to get, and heroics to work on, but i want to find something else to do on WoW. Any suggestions would be good, EX. A fun set of achievements to go after, or interesting quest lines to do.    "
    I find a lot of people who weren't around in Vanilla skipped most, if not all, of the classic raids. I knows DKs, Pallys, and 1 or 2 other classes are capable of soloing a few of them, but it's still pretty hard by yourself. If you can, grab a few friends and go have a ball.
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    #22  Edited By Barrock

    Achievements dude.

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    #23  Edited By Ghostfish

    Maybe try for mounts, dungeon/raid achievements, Frostbitten achievement, tabard hunting?  Side note: camping for the Time-Lost Proto Drake suuuuuuuuuucks.  Took me 6 weeks of camping to get, another guy I camped with occasionally took only a week, ran into a guy who camped just over 4 months.  You might get lucky and get it right away, but definitely be prepared to wait, and have lots of stuff to do while you wait for NPCScan to go off.

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    #24  Edited By kishan6
    @Sabata said:
    " Stop playing.  "
    i was literally about to type just that
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    #25  Edited By MrDorkins

    Get exalted with bloodsail. This means gettings to honored, keeping one quest, going to the badlands, and then killing one goblin 21000 times. (No Seriously!)

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    #26  Edited By Marz

    I play other games when it's not raiding time.    Go get torchlight on steam ( 5$ ), play that when your not playing WoW and have some more fun

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    #27  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    I think the thing that separates me from a hell of a lot of other MMO players is that when I get bored I go play something else.

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    #28  Edited By zonerover

    Forgive me since I'm not a WoW player, but can't you just stop playing once your bored?

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    #29  Edited By Gabriel
    @deathstriker666 said:
    " Go outside "
    It is summer after all
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    #30  Edited By FrankWeidner
    @kishan6 said:
    " @Sabata said:
    " Stop playing.  "
    i was literally about to type just that "
    Yep, I played WoW for a while. Then I got bored. So I quit giving them all of my money and went on to games that didn't bore me.
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    #31  Edited By Supermarius

    stop playing. it will wreck your life. It also prevents you from being a real gamer becuse when you get deep inyo Wow, it's all you play.

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    #32  Edited By andrela

    Go into battlegrounds and grind scrubs for infinity :)
     
    I recently hit the honor cap 7 times in about 5 days. Its quite fun

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    #33  Edited By SilvarusLupus

    I explore and try to get as close to Alliance towns that I can. Alone. With no backup.

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    #35  Edited By lawlerballer

    wipe random dungeons and pug raids lulz

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    #36  Edited By nrain

    /dance

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    #37  Edited By Castro

    I don't know if you've done so already, but you could go for the Loremaster achievement while you still can. I quit after I got the Loremaster achievement as I was bored as well. 
     
    That Insane in the Membrane achievement looks like fun. Maybe I'll start playing again.

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    #38  Edited By flaminghobo
    @ChristianCastillo said:

    " DANCE "

     
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    #39  Edited By animateria

    Was this totally worth resurrecting? 
     
    No, probably not.

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    #40  Edited By fox01313

    Can't seem to find the site at the moment (one of the wiki sites found ages ago when I was playing) had a list of some of the more obscure quest chains out there with the history of the scarlet crusade or the sprite darter pet & others that many people might not have skipped past while playing. Might be easier now but there's a lot of the quest chains out there that have odd rewards worth going after that or you could just start over with another character/faction to try that out.

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    #41  Edited By Kyreo

    I dual random strangers.... and usually lose.  Then I stop playing.

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    #42  Edited By sammo21

    I would also like to second the motion that when one gets bored in WOW, that is the perfect time to go back to reality.  I have played wow from day 1 up until April of last year and then I started back last month because my fiance wanted me to show her the game.  Trust me when I say there are things to do outside of WOW; it sounds douchey, but I think that is the prime time to go and get some sunlight, read a good book, play some DnD, whatever.  The same goes for any videogame, but most especially MMOs.

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    #43  Edited By JumpingRetards
    Start up a 25 man naxx and ninja as much shit as you possibly can.
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    #44  Edited By huntad

    If it keeps up, try taking breaks. Why sit around in town and do nothing when you could be doing something not in game?

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    #45  Edited By JumpingRetards
    @lawlerballer:  You, sir, know how to live.
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    @cstrang said:
    " @Sabata said:
    " Stop playing.  "
    /topic "
    Beat me to it.  Oh fuck this topic is old and got resurrected. 
     
    Beat me to it a long time ago, I guess.
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    #47  Edited By Yummylee

    Create a female night elf and try to coerce people into giving you unlimited supplies of gold.

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    #48  Edited By andrela

    I downed Lich King about 2 weeks ago as a guild first kill in a newly formed guild. Since then we've started on heroic modes and have only 3 left to do and I can honestly say I've never been more bored with wow than I am now.

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