Ddo depression?

[walkingwolfmike]

Ok, perhaps depression is not the correct term, but for lack of a better word, at the moment....yea, I find myself depressed about even logging in lately.

In thinking about why this feeling had come on, what I think it boils down to for me is the plan I'd had to tr my original cleric.
Let me say here that I've not tr'd since a bit before the cannith crafting change. When last I tr'd, I was able to craft things that made tring a bit less tedious.
As I started checking out what I'd want to craft out for the upcoming life, I saw that many things had changed. Some to such a degree that I just lost interest in cannith all together.

Anyone else relate to this? If not crafting related, then simply just the lack of motivation to log in?

[Cantor]

Ok, perhaps depression is not the correct term, but for lack of a better word, at the moment....yea, I find myself depressed about even logging in lately.

In thinking about why this feeling had come on, what I think it boils down to for me is the plan I'd had to tr my original cleric.
Let me say here that I've not tr'd since a bit before the cannith crafting change. When last I tr'd, I was able to craft things that made tring a bit less tedious.
As I started checking out what I'd want to craft out for the upcoming life, I saw that many things had changed. Some to such a degree that I just lost interest in cannith all together.

Anyone else relate to this? If not crafting related, then simply just the lack of motivation to log in?

I get those moods usually following an ER dreading a boring slog back to 30, and just TR unless I'm iconic. As far as crafting goes, try to make generic gear that will work for many builds so it isn't so costly. If you have one specific build you want to optimize then it's just the cost of doing so. If not optimizing, you can just grab junk on AH or loot and have no issues.

Haven't done 20 to 30 since reaper came out, maybe it's better now. But I'm willing to bet a third or fourth er on one life is still a drag.

[scipiojedi]

I have this too...but for me it comes from being bored with my current builds and needing something new. So I join a new server, roll a new toon, join a new guild, join a new static group, etc. Sometimes I just don't login for a month and need the break to get rejuvenated. But I always come back, and I always play my main(s) again.

[changelingamuck]

I get this feeling from the tedious collectible farming necessary for doing the amount of crafting that I prefer to do.

It's the aspect of this game that makes me the most disinclined to log-in, by far.

[cdbd3rd]

Ok, perhaps depression is not the correct term, but for lack of a better word, at the moment....yea, I find myself depressed about even logging in lately. ...

I call it "burn out". It happens, and most of us have gotten it at some point in whatever games we play.

For me, jumping over to LOTRO side for a while fixes it, or a I spend some time back in Diablo 2, or Fallen Earth. Or sometimes when it's just gaming in general, I'll spend a week or two just catching up on movies & shows I have piled up in my DVR.

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As for the CC slant of the OP, I... yeah, I have found myself less motivated to progress in my CC levels since the change myself. I hate admitting that.

[TBot1234]

Ok, perhaps depression is not the correct term, but for lack of a better word, at the moment....yea, I find myself depressed about even logging in lately.

As I started checking out what I'd want to craft out for the upcoming life, I saw that many things had changed. Some to such a degree that I just lost interest in cannith all together.

Anyone else relate to this? If not crafting related, then simply just the lack of motivation to log in?

I've been discouraged by many aspects of crafting, especially how grindy it is now to get ingredients. Maybe someday the AH will be full of essences and collectibles, but it sure isn't that way now.

Other members in my static group have recently returned to crafting and are finding the levelling process frustrating, mostly because of the slow progress.

Crafting hasn't made me want to take a break from the game, but other things have: rampant duping, guildies leaving the game, feeling burnt out, summer holidays, messing up a toon on a TR...

It probably wouldn't hurt you take a break. The game isn't going anywhere for a while...


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