Why You Should Take Your Time in World of Warcraft

by



Read more about World of Warcraft ➜ https://worldofwarcraft.mgn.gg

I wanted to share my experience with ADHD and how taking my time in WoW helped me cope with my racing mind.

00:00 Intro
02:09 The way we play games in 2024
04:42 How the Azure Span changed my perspective
06:55 Rushing around Azeroth
09:10 Slow down
11:18 Classic vs Retail
14:03 It’s ok to just do things for fun
16:58 Outro

The music tracks featured in this video are all from World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft® ©2004 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. World of Warcraft, Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

#worldofwarcraft #thewarwithin

source

49 thoughts on “Why You Should Take Your Time in World of Warcraft”

  1. LOVED what you had to say in this video. I don't have ADHD or anything but I love playing the game slowly. I started in Mists and never really read any quests until TWW. I tell you what, I have been LOVING walking and now flying around everywhere. The world feels so big and alive and I feel at home there

    Reply

  6. I'll add that maintaining this intentional slow down takes self discipline and building good habits. I recommend setting yourself a 21 day challenge. You pick it and you stick to it. Hang in there everyone.

    Reply

  8. my favorite way to approach this method is to choose an achievement, start heading toward working on the steps for it, and allowing myself to be distracted along the way. i stopped running the gear race a long time ago. gear up as much as I want to do what i want, and leave it be otherwise. i realized at one point that i had "accomplished" nearly nothing in about 2 full expansions, but i had enjoyed my time tremendously. in fact, it's been my most enjoyable periods in the game. everyone gets so unbelievably focused on the end points that they forget the journey is the best part. and in the world of warcraft, especially at the size it is now, there's a ton of journey to be had.

    Reply

  9. For 99% of the player-base – sadly – it's all about the destination, and not the journey…
    Being in the moment… enjoying the world… the music, the atmosphere, the lore, the landscapes, the fantastic voyage… ?!
    "Nah, man, let's RUSH RUSH RUSH, LOOT LOOT LOOT everything!!11oen"
    Well… no worries, by the time they 'wake up', it might be a tad too late.

    Reply

  10. Watching this video made me realize there's two types of people:

    The people who are afraid of death, rushing to finish everything as quick as possible because there might not be another chance to experience it or "finish" it. (This is me I'm 22)
    And the people who have accepted death, willing to slow down and see the beauty of the world in its fullest perspective admiring what has been created.

    Reply

  15. you want to feel like the world is big and that you worked hard walking, finding the route. And you also want to feel like your somewhat efficient, also relative to the other players. you cant just not fly and think you fixed the issue. They will grind gold and you will lag behind. they will fly to dungeons and your just supposed to tell them to wait while your walking.

    Reply

  17. Let's spread the good word. I've always played this way more or less (reason why I never joined a guild as I don't want others to tell me what I need to do). But the thing that bugs me is I have a backlog of things I'd like to achieve in the back of my mind. Funny thing is that when I've relaxed and enjoyed the game I've made the best progress towards those goals too. Also fun fact is I've almost never ran in cities since I started playing the game in vanilla… if I have a mount I'll use that, but otherwise RP walk all the time. Also I avoid flying for the most part unless I have to use it for a quest.

    Reply

  24. literally just from the first 5 seconds of the video I can tell this is a good video lmao people rush too much to do things and don't appreciate anything nowadays xD wow is beautiful it's not just about m+ or getting 31951935319593 rating in pvp it's so much more than that and it literally is not a problem with the game itself, but the mentality of the people that play it

    Reply

  27. I found it was life and day in Dragonflight to use the "Bequiet" addon to turn off all the talking heads. I could just cruise through Dragonflight, listen to the music, and avoid being interrupted by world quests telling me to do this, or go here. I met npcs I had never even noticed just wandering about taking in the world, even some stones with interesting lore that turned out to be part of an exploration achievement. There's so much in WoW, to see and to do, all lovingly crafted.

    Reply

  31. The same people that blast through content and then complain that theres 'nothing to do' will often laugh at anyone playing sub optimally for fun. I've been called a bot for riding ground mounts around to go sightseeing and fishing. But hey, time spent having fun isn't time wasted. Keep enjoying life my guy.

    Reply

  32. Man … I was hyperactive as kid and when the time i was growing my puberty and teenage years made me more restrained and withdrawn from the mass as slowly became antisocial because of the toxicity of the masses, being an individualyst person always wondered why I have to be put in frames as the others instead of focusing what I'm good at . Had big issues with inappropriate groups that I share company with and observe by the years that they slowly comverse from normal to lazynes doing soft drugs (sometimes harder like methamfetamine or extasy) and didn't fell like being present in this community even that myself participated In the process.
    As years pass I remembered my downfalls and rises from the "pit" just one day remembered how was before this toxic releationships and say: Fuck it! My life has a better meaning and now will live the way I want and make my demands on life.
    Now when you realize that you're in controll of your life and the universe is taking care of you is like being a careless kid enjoying the time being on the playground 😎 .

    Reply

  35. It's not playing while in Legion because my girlfriend was in a top 10 guild and everything in the game to her had to be done at Mach 10 and the entire community that we played with didn't take time to appreciate any part of Warcraft.

    They would burn through all the content as fast as possible and find cheesy ways to earn all the mounts. then be upset because there wasn't enough content.

    I'll come back now in a war within and I'm taking a look at Warcraft like an assassin's Creed style RPG, taking my time to appreciate all the small things.

    I blame the Warcraft YouTube community for this, the biggest focuses are on how to get to max level as fast as possible how to earn the most gold as fast as possible how to earn x y or z or whatever is important this week as fast as possible. Having this perspective like playing Warcraft is a waste of time and you want to do it as fast as possible. There's so much to do in Warcraft now that if you get bored of one part you can do a lot of other things.

    Reply

  36. That's funny, when I was 32 I took up a bird photography and bird watching. I realized when I walked in the woods I enjoyed the scenery but my brain was looking for something to do.

    Taking time to chase down the call then hearing and moving slowly and methodically and looking at all the details of nature gave me a new appreciation for a lot of things that gave me a reason to look forward to spending time doing something slow. This is the time in my life when I literally learned to stop it smell the roses.

    Now I live by a new motto; expect nothing and appreciate everything.

    Reply

  37. The most fun I've had in Warcraft ever was when season of discovery came out, I was level 25 Hunter and I was escorting people from Menithil harbor to the gates of ironforge through the wetlands as they made the dreaded run.

    Defending then againt crocodiles, slimes, spiders and the ever present horde.

    Reply

  38. This is a really awesome video man! I wanted to point out two things and one is something that people often miss. I also experienced something similar when I first played with my wife for the first time. She is someone who never played video games and after a few years of trying to get her to play, she finally said she would try it. WoW is not an easy game to get into but watching her play slow and taking her time and how she didn't even go for the combat and fighting in game, but instead, she went to collect pets as a hunter as her main source of fun, this gave me a a new point of view or I should say reminded me of an old one I had when I first played mmos. She only plays 1-2 hours every few days but when we play together, I am playing wow completely different. We read the quest lines, we enjoy exploring and I am so happy that she brought this sense back to me. Another thing that I want to mention that many people fail to consider is that we are all privileged to be playing this game. I would say a majority of the world population, maybe 90%+ do not even have the time or finances to play this game. Playing WoW was a dream for me when I was growing up as I used to see ads for it in the early 2000's but I was born and living in a 3rd world country in war and had no chance to do so at all. Even when we made it out, we still couldn't afford it the first few years, but now, I feel like I am living my childhood dream of playing this and I can only imagine how many kids or adults out there that never got this chance that still wish that they could just take a break and play.

    Anyways, I apologise for my essay lol long story short, I enjoyed watching your vid and sharing ur awesome perspective and I hope that others can see it too.

    Reply

  40. Great video, I can't stand the pace of modern WoW where everything is goal-oriented. It feels like no one stops to explore and appreciate anymore. When I first joined at the end of Classic, I spent so much time not even trying to achieve anything like a higher level or gear, just exploring and seeing what the world had to offer.

    I wish I played through Dragonflight the same way but since starting TWW and rushing through the Isle of Dorn as quickly as possible, I realized I'm just powering through the game in a goal-oriented matter without taking anything in. Perhaps it's a forgettable zone but I barely remember any of it. So like yourself in Dragonflight, I've been using ground mounts only since The Ringing Deeps and I'm enjoying the slower pace a lot more. I'm currently in Hallowfall and you appreciate the world around you so much more. All the attention and love the art team has put into the game in terms of environments and music – you miss all that if you're just trying to get through these zones as quickly as possible I think.

    Reply

  44. I had this video sitting in my watch later and finally got around to it. I have never felt so seen. I've been playing WoW since launch, and I'm now 31. I was considered a bad student because I had issues focusing and always slept through class. I eventually dropped out because I never got any help and I felt it was better that I just work. Wow was always a constant and became almost a meditative game. I was pushing meters, chasing key stone master, clearing mythic with my guild. Once Dragonflight rolled around, I had a similar moment. I just started walking/riding ground mounts around. I started focusing on my breathing, getting past my anxiety and just slowing down. I still do this largely in the current expansion, as well as taking my sweet time in classic anniversary fresh start. I've never been formally diagnosed with ADHD, but I've had teachers tell my parents that they think I'm bipolar or I'm just anxious, lazy etc. But this really resonated with how I've felt for years and used WoW to cope. I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves to take time to just appreciate WoW. Thank you for this. ❤

    Reply

Leave a Comment