Fighting the Ennui

Ennui: just about everyone's got it in one form or the other. The Brewfest helped a bit, but now that I've got my pony kegs (the only thing I was really interested in this time), I'm having a hard time even getting excited about BRD runs for the kodo. I've been doing dailies for gold, but those feel too much like work. Instance groups are next to impossible to form and they're also hard to get excited about. Before, even if I didn't "need" the run, I could always say "hey, at least I'm getting a shot at a nice drop" or "at least this is getting me rep and/or badges". But now those items will likely soon get replaced, I've gotten all the badge gear I need, and the rep will be useless (anyone still grinding Argent Dawn rep? I thought not.). We continue to try and form 25-man raids, but the attendance for those is pathetic.

My solutions for the last few weeks has been leveling a new alt (mage), which I've enjoyed a lot, but now that I've hit 60 and dropped back to normal leveling speed, I'm finding it a grind again. Maybe it's the slower speed, maybe it's the fact that these quests and areas are more familiar to me, but running around killing orcs, boars and whatever has been mind-numbing lately.

My second attempt at repelling the boredom came with a brand new pally alt. That was very fun due to my unfamiliarity with the Draenei starting area quests, but once I hit Darkshore, it was back to SSDD. It doesn't help any that I suck at playing melee classes, so the quests can be frustrating at times.

So, I'm just about resigned to just waiting it out. I'll build up my rested XP on my mage and play him when I get a decent amount. I'll sign in for raids, note that they are canceled and then log off. I may try and learn to play my pally better, but that can be frustrating. At the end of the day, I'm paying money to have fun, not to work -- unless something changes, I think I'll coast my way to WotLK and then see if the spark is back.

I doubt anyone's actually reading this blog, but if you are, I'm temporarily signing off.