My last few years of gaming have felt disjointed, hopping around to a lot of different games. Focusing almost exclusively on leveling alts in World of Warcraft for a solid decade, my recent lack of commitment to a particular game or achieving goals within that game has been a bit unsettling.
For a while, I thought I'd found that new home in FFXIV, and I spent a lot of time getting every single job to the max level over the course of Shadowbringers and Endwalker. While I can't point to anything in particular, the launch of Dawntrail has significantly curbed my passion for the game. I've been considering canceling my subscription to that one and moving on, but I may give it one more expansion before making that decision.
That brings me to where I've been lately, which is bouncing around between Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, and World of Warcraft. With the recent announcements about the way new content is going to be released for Elder Scrolls Online, it feels like that game is heading for a sunset period, so I'm also debating whether it's worth investing much more time in it, which would leave me with basically just World of Warcraft and Guild Wars 2.
I'm satisfied with my level of engagement on Guild Wars 2 right now. I've got two characters that I'm playing actively, and if I hit a wall on both of them, I always have my Ranger that I can go back to. Or even picking things up with another class.
On World of Warcraft, I would love to get all of my alts to max level before the end of this year. As of right now, I've got 12 that I've managed to get to the max level. I've got 39 more to go. Nine of those are at level 70, so it wouldn't be too bad. There is a massive chunk at level 50 left over from my leveling binge during Battle for Azeroth, and then there are 4 or so in the teens that are Allied Race characters that I didn't do anything with.
I have no idea what the leveling time would be from 50 to 80 in the new setup and whether the amount of time involved is feasible.
Last year, I had around 420 total hours of game time. If I estimated that it would take an average of 6 hours each to get those remaining 9 characters to level 80, and then maybe 9 hours to get the 26 level 50 characters that I have and 10 hours to get the four in the teens done, that's 328 hours, which seems reasonably doable. Of course, I have no idea if those estimates for the lower-level characters are correct, but I will definitely have better data soon enough.
I'm not ready to call that a goal yet, as there will be shiny new things during the year that take at least some of my attention, primarily new end-game content in both Guild Wars 2 and World of Warcraft.
Since my last update, I managed to get two more characters to max level in World of Warcraft, bringing the total to the above-mentioned twelve, the most recent being another Warlock and then my Evoker. As of this post, I've started on my Horde mage and have him sitting at level 73.
My game time for the next week or two will be limited. I'm traveling out of the country for work next week and will have only one day of potential playtime.
That's the update for now!
Cheers,
Joar
