Someone once quoted WoW as being an "abusive spouse". I don't think they could be more right.
I 'broke' up with WoW just over a year ago (for the second...maybe third(?) time). In the last couple of days, I've had this itch to play again. Images of fun and ideas of how to make things better this time around dance in my head. I used to think that PvE servers were for wimps, but I'll admit that is a juvenile attitude. In fact, this time I think I can eliminate a lot of stress and frustration by trying a PvE server out. I can satisfy my e-peen needs in CS or CoD4 with a great community. Maybe there exists a relatively new West Coast PvE server, so that there aren't tons of big intimidating guilds, as well as some folks populating the 'old world'. I'll find a couple of cooperative peeps and we can frolic and murder in the dungeons to collect purplz and expeez as we climb our way to level 70. Ya, I can probably make the best out of this time...
...but then in the back of my head, I hear a deep voice echoing in all that space.. My common sense begs to be heard, "Collect 8 Zhera hooves". That's just the beginning of the abuse WoW subjected me to. For every cooperative and efficient group I found, nine had at least one of those guys. The one that couldn't understand 'need before greed', took thirty minutes to get to the instance, left for an appointment one hour into the dungeon, tanked with a two hander in fury stance, yelled at everyone but themselves, randomly afk multiple times, insisted on doing their side of the dungeon first...then leaving, rolled for their alts, aggroed before the healer could mana up, and floated to the instance before the healer could rez them. I'm pretty sure I needed one from each of those categories before I found a 'good' group. Not to mention, once you found those cool people, it was impossible to stay within level range of them. Do I dare start ranting about the crafting system?
Still, if you are interested in starting fresh on a newish PvE server, give me a shout, I'll probably be there sooner than I like.