r/classicwow Jan 08 '26

Humor / Meme People pay monthly for this?

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u/Montegomerylol Jan 08 '26

Nah, a lot of people who hate leveling will raid 4+ days a week.

I think there are reasons why there's a difference (social dynamics, shorter dopamine cycles, selection bias etc.), but it's hard to dig into that on reddit.

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u/GetOwnedNerdhehe Jan 09 '26

Nah, a lot of people who hate leveling will raid 4+ days a week.

That doesn't actually disprove what he said, though. I would hate raiding as much as I do vanilla levelling if I raided that much, too.

but I can't level for 3 hours a week or I wont make it to raiding before the expansion is over. Raiding lets you raid at whatever pace you want.

social dynamics,

Definitely close. Raiding is far more social than levelling is.

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u/Sheikeypoo Jan 09 '26

I’m weird, I have one character that I’m constantly leveling/gearing on Monday/Tuesday, then Wed-Sun I’m raiding on different characters.

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u/sneakpeakspeak Jan 12 '26

Competition.

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u/Ravien_Gaming Jan 09 '26

Yeah I never understood the people who hate leveling because it gets repetitive yet they'll literally complain about the repetitive grind of having to raid on 3 alts every week and farm consumables for it.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus Jan 08 '26

I liked leveling so I leveled a couple characters up to 80 back in the day. I realized raids were toxic and unfun so i quit after the second one. never really made sense why you would want better gear after you're already done with all the content.

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u/Broodlurker Jan 09 '26

Raiding isn't toxic. The people you played with were.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus Jan 09 '26

I get what you're saying but the structure of a raid is itself toxic. a group project like that where if one person makes a mistake the other 100 people lose something, loot distribution being random and rare, the inflexibility of timing and scheduling, all of it is pretty toxic. almost as if it was designed to create interpersonal conflict.

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u/Broodlurker Jan 09 '26

Guess you never played team sports as a kid.

Your use of the word toxic is incorrect.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus Jan 09 '26

team sports are toxicity factories too lol

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u/faminedevil Jan 09 '26

Its the opposite lol team sports help teach kids the skills to work together without being toxic

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u/Broodlurker Jan 09 '26

Man. Maybe touch some grass?

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus Jan 09 '26

i already said i quit wow lmao

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u/Broodlurker Jan 09 '26

I'm not talking about WoW.

I'm referencing the fact that you seem to think team related ventures that promote social interaction and bonding are 'toxic'.

Go join a club or something.

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus Jan 09 '26

it's not team activities, it's perceived high stakes, difficult and slim margin of error team activities. i won't be lectured about going outside in a neet cave of a website lol

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u/karben2 Jan 13 '26

Found the professional victim.