I don’t know if it’s because I’ve focused on Jessmyn for so long almost exclusively, or what. But I seem to have lost my will to play her. Don’t get me wrong. I have loved every minute I’ve played with her. And maybe someday I’ll get that urge again. But right now, I’m completely uninspired. Even with a change in spec available via dual talents. Today’s patch notes only made it worse.
Lifebloom: The final heal that occurs when this spell blooms has been reduced by 20% on the base and on the spell power coefficient.
To say I’m not impressed is an understatement. But I’m not flailing wildly either. I’ve reached surrender. Clearly they are never going to leave this spell alone. As if lifebloom hasn’t been nerfed and changed enough over the last year. I’ve lost count at this point. They’ve nerfed the HoT and boosted the bloom. We adjusted. They’ve increased the mana cost by double, but they made the bloom bigger depending on how many stacks were up, and it refunded a portion of the mana cost. We adjusted. Now, here we go again. I give up. Why not just take it way all together if they can’t make it do what they want?
As for me, well I’m having a ball on my rogue, and the shammy is looking promising. I miss wanting to play Jess as wierd as that may sound. I really want to WANT to play her. But…all things in time I guess.
I am feeling the same way right now with my priest, even to a lesser extent with my hunter.
I’m not too sure how long you’ve played, since I’m new to your Blog (and loving it) but I’ve been playing from almost the beginning. I started 5 months after release of the game. In that time I’ve taken a break 3 times, the longest for 8 months. I even had to do something many WoW players would shudder at doing, I had to delete my original character, a Druid, due to huge harassment from an Ex-husband (this was before they allowed name changes).
Anyway, I have learned that this ebb and flow of characters for long-term players is “normal”. I also have come to believe that it is key in actually staying with the game. You will see, some day you’ll jump on your druid and play her and you will get excited over her all over again. It’s happened to me with my main and with alts.
I wish you luck with your rogue and your up-coming shaman. I look forward to reading about them.
My original main was a hunter and I loved her to bits (didn’t have a clue about how to play her properly, but I loved her nonetheless). Then somewhere in Netherstorm at lvl 69 and a bit I just did not want to play her anymore. I had a little priest alt that I picked up thinking that I’d get the will back to play my hunter in a couple of days. That was back at the beginning of 2007 and my priest has been my main ever since.
I did push myself to level her to 70 only to put her out to pasture straight afterwards and I did bring her to Borean Tundra once my priest had hit 80, but I managed one fight before going back to the inn. I doubt I will ever play her again, but I don’t think I could ever delete her.
On the other hand, my husband is a complete alt-o-holic and has currently got 4 level 80s. His main changes every so often when he realises that he is enjoying one more than the others but then he’ll go back to one of the older mains and re-discover why he liked it so much.
Like Naralia said, I do think that it is quite common that you change mains and sometimes you will come back to them and sometimes you won’t. It’s like with anything else in life – we change and grow and sometimes we grow closer to the character we play and sometimes we grow apart.
Play what makes you happy, that’s what’s most important.
(I assuaged my guilt for not playing my poor hunter by dressing her up in a nice outfit and parking her with her pet so she could enjoy the view over Nagrand from the flight platform in Telaar – yes, I’m probably a bit weird…
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