Breakfast Topic: What parts of gameplay do you consider a chore?
by Olivia Grace 
Feb 4th 2012 at 8:00AM
I added that it's rather a chore. I also mentioned that in Rise of the Zandalari, there were only two dungeons that you had to run every week to get your points topped up in order to buy gear to raid. This, also, was rather a chore. He was baffled that a game -- something that was meant to be fun -- should have chores in it!
So that got me thinking (like everything else does) about my friends. I have a friend in WoW who mines constantly; it seems to be all he does sometimes. Mining (the profession I've never leveled because I hate it so much) clearly isn't a chore to him -- or he thinks he really needs all that ore and quietly hates it! Ugh, that clink, clink, clink ...
What do you consider a chore in WoW? What are the not-that-fun-but-necessary parts of the game? What are things that you just won't do because they're too tiresome?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
joshychrist Feb 4th 2012 8:10AM
all of it
Komiroya Feb 4th 2012 8:15AM
Easy, chain dungeoning. Especially when the group is quiet. Just silently going thru the motions like an old married couple having sex.
mazca13 Feb 4th 2012 8:32AM
I think you win the prize for "Strangely appropriate but wholly unnecessary metaphor", there.
Zaet Feb 4th 2012 9:06AM
lol
Aika Feb 4th 2012 9:49AM
I prefer a quiet group to one with drama.
Everclear Feb 4th 2012 10:00AM
Whoa, whoa, wait.
Married couples have sex?
irik Feb 4th 2012 11:47AM
No... No... sadly we don't. Or at least it's about as likely as Baron finally dropping Deathcharger for me.
katyromick Feb 4th 2012 12:21PM
Where did you think babies came from? O.o
Noyou Feb 4th 2012 12:28PM
@Komi
Stop spying on old married couples :P
sarah Feb 4th 2012 6:43PM
Yep, married couples have sex. Actually, we have more than we did before getting married. And it's better, too. Weird, hey? :P
Arrowsmith Feb 4th 2012 8:15AM
There are two things I currently consider chores (well, three things):
First is farming leather on my Main to make things to send to my Enchanter Alt so she has enough mats to buy enchanting recipes and make them (Greater Celestial essences can kiss my sass). Basically, the crafted item that gives me the enchanting mats I need the most requires seven Heavy Savage Leather to make, or 35 regular Savage Leather. Thank god I can skin spiders...
Second is farming Embersilk Cloth. I'm determined to get the 500 Dense Embersilk Bandages Achievement, and I have 150 bandages to go. Which means 450 Embersilk cloth. Which means dealing with reduced drop rates, even with a Potion of Treasure Finding. At least my farming spot has a high enough respawn rate...
Third is healing heroics on my Priest. I suspect this to remain a chore until she gets into the DS Heroics and hopefully by then DPS will be smarter. Hopefully. Ironically, I don't consider farming Heroics on my main to get JP to buy heirloom weapons a chore at all. Maybe it's because it's more relaxing to make the boss go "OH GOD WHAT'S HITTING ME OW OW OW OW I'm dead" than make myself go "HOW THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE TAKING SO MUCH DAMAGE STAY OUT OF THE BAD and there goes my mana."
byronius_prime Feb 4th 2012 10:10AM
Embersilk farming is easily the WORST mats to farm ever. Perhaps it's below Frostweave farming (for FS/Tailoring levelling) but still horrible. Those damn potions barely help too.
Noyou Feb 4th 2012 12:30PM
Skinning would REALLY benefit from some form of mass looting. It would be cool if after a kill, the skins just got put in your bag, if you had room. It's never going to happen but it would be nice.
Eastland23 Feb 4th 2012 12:43PM
Not to offend... but if farming is such a chore, ur doin it rong.
I agree - farming is a chore. But it's one piece of the game that is actually avoidable via the AH. One would hope that by slightly increasing your production rates for a minimal first-time investment, you could create enough profit to jump start your next investment and just buy the leather and embersilk from the AH. Use your margins to increase your purchasing power until you reach the level that you can comfortably repeat the buy-craft-sell cycle. You should save time and eventually make more money (or have more fun stuff you want).
Regarding the priest... I absolutely agree. Your write-up was hilarious :) Good luck with that!
Xaklo Feb 4th 2012 2:00PM
I actually find that I come across enough embersilk every week to produce my weekly CDs simply by running dungeons.
Inscription however has got to be the one profession that feels more like a chore than any other. Gather (/buy) the herbs -> Mill herbs into pigments -> craft pigments into inks ->
trade the inks for whatever pre-cata inks you need -> buy the parchment you need -> then finally make the glyph.
Granted, it's not as long in practice as it reads, but it just seems like there are unnecessary steps in the process. Maybe all the glyphs use one kind of parchment (like the did with vials in alchemy) or somehow doing away with the milling part, allowing us to make inks directly from herbs.
eel5pe Feb 4th 2012 2:23PM
Good Lord, there has GOT to be a more efficient way to get the enchanting mats you need. Farming leather is like the most inefficient activity ever. I'd recommend honor: you can use it to buy GCE, or buy the PvP relic (700 honor) to DE and get maelstroms or shards.
As for the embersilk, I'd recommend waiting for the DMF (starts tomorrow!) and fishing the pools around the island. The pools drop incredible amounts of embersilk in the boxes you fish out of them.
Don't work harder, work smarter =)
Lars Petersson Feb 4th 2012 8:44PM
I don't mind farming Embersilk Cloth. The AH is a wonderful place to do it from...
Taino Feb 4th 2012 8:20AM
Fishing. In xpacs past I have just bought the fish I needed for feasts, or for my preferred buff food. Prices are so ridiculous now for certain items that I would rather just fish it up myself. Fishing in wow is akin to watching paint dry for me. I really hate fishing for Lavascale Catfish. No pools to shoot for so you basically just stand in Uldum or Deepholm.
lokii Feb 4th 2012 2:56PM
Try fishing in the lost city of tolvir instance - it seems better drop rate plus you dont have to stare at orange lava
clundgren Feb 4th 2012 1:39PM
So this.
In Wrath, you had the option of fishing in Wintergrasp, so you could get all your mats for fish feast from one pool. Sure, the potential ganking made it a little hazardous, but it kept you on your toes, and the fact that every cast got you something usable made it worthwhile.
In Cataclysm, it takes AGES to get the mats for 20 feasts. You have to go to different zones, some of your fish only pop up every fifth cast or so, and the lavascales don't even have nodes to help speed things along. Like many things in Cataclysm, Blizzard seemed to decide that fishing was too easy in Wrath and needed to be more of a grind. Sadly, while they've since largely rescinded that approach, it remains intact for fishing.
The weirdest part is that it remains dead simple to get the mats to make food for yourself. So that's what everyone does, of course.