Okay, so I had WoW about a year or two ago, and had way too much fun/no fun. It was a ton of fun, but ultimately slow and, well, slow. Well, maybe that is because I literally created (and deleted) dozens and dozens of low level characters, my main Mage (Aydenn) is about 38 or so.

It is just SO TIME CONSUMING. I have work to finish and a life to have! I'm not saying it will interfere with my ability to get things done, only to eat the precious little (yet sizable amount) of free time I have. I can plan around raids and the like, but in general, this game needs you there every day. Guilds, for example: The large ones usually are falling apart and are more loose collections of people. The small ones (the ones I prefer) usually have hardcore playtimes, say, almost every afternoon you'll be logging on.

My main problem is that if I'm into something, I am INTO it. If I play Halo, (which I do) I have to be the best. I have to know where all the weapons are, the best tactics, maps, and enjoy hardcore playgroups. I still play for fun, and enjoy every game win or lose, but I have to make that effort. I have to be on top of all the new releases and news. Now, with WoW, there is SO MUCH CONTENT that it blows me away. I have to literally MINE through expansion packs/content to get to "where it's at." Every "new" dungeon for me has been done by everyone else a zillion times (Blackwing lair for example) and I am HARD pressed to get a raid together, let alone be getting it together/playing the raid/organizing and planning future raids, not that I can't, just that it SUCKS my life from my soul like a plunger in a toilet. My fear is the content is piling up on me and I am seriously, seriously missing out. And I have the equivalent of 50 million miles of leveling/content in general ahead of me and the landscape is a barren wasteland since all the people are in Draenor, and when I get there, the are (going to be) in Northrend soon, and when I get THERE, it will all be OLD again, and I MISSED OUT on the excitement and discovery. I love the Undercity, for example. But knowing how OLD it is to everyone else and (presently) people-less makes me nauseous.

So I really want to play, to get some of that old Elwynn magic again, and (eventually) rejoin civilization wherever they will be when I catch up, but to do so will involve flaying my soul. Help?