How I Avoid Burnout 📜 How I Spend My Time Each Expansion 

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Beats rushing at full no-life intensity to finish the current raid, finishing it in a week, having "nothing to do", and being unhappy.

It's so refreshing to watch a creator that plays more like I do instead of everything being about raids, mythic plus and PVP

Kraken! Hope you're well. I came back to this video specifically to thank you again for your aid in helping me embrace my rampant altoholism. I stumbled upon a method of leveling that's brought me a lot of WoW joy in the last few months! It's hardly revolutionary, but has made a huge difference in my playtime. I love creating and leveling new alts, but not necessarily hitting max level with them. (Thank goodness we can stick them into cryo-sleep at 50!) Step 1 of my discovery was...leveling without BoA gear. Part of the reason I was getting bored with my favorite ingame activity was that it was going too quickly, haha. I wasn't focusing on the fun in the journey, and since I never intended to hit max level with those new alts, I didn't really have ANY goals at all for any of them, which made the whole process feel aimless. I didn't even make a new alt to try it without heirlooms; I gradually replaced BoAs while questing on an existing lowbie, and weirdly got more excited to play her as her progress slowed down. Step 2 was avoiding flying mounts. I figured I'd get frustrated and quickly start using them again...and was 100% wrong. Staying grounded - even in Cata zones! - has made each location feel more alive and dangerous. Since Step 1 was "Ignore leveling speed", the slower pace didn't bother me a bit. I've seen all kinds of beautiful scenery from fresh angles, simply because I wasn't flying over the top of everything trying to hustle from point A to point B. *ETA*...I was also pretty sad when ground mounts became "useless" at the very low level of 30, so it's also felt nice to enjoy the bulk of my mount collection for longer periods of time! Step 3 was keeping some RP going in my head. Where'd this character come from? What's he fighting for? Who is she protecting? What's something he's excited about? A few basic questions helped figure out some destination goals, like which expansion to level in, which talents to pick, which transmog feels right. My current alt is Yet Another Arms Warrior (love those), and it gets dull to use the exact same build repeatedly. This one's a Zandalari troll who likes to make things bleed, so her talent and ability aims are bleeds and mastery. She rarely uses Execute; it's more fun to let enemies drain out as long as possible. She's a little scary. >.> I think that covers the method fairly well. The results have been that I can make a new character, do a bit of brainstorming on its RP angle to decide where to level - usually there's just one zone as a primary target, though it may take a bit to reach initially - and strike out on a new adventure. What's beautiful about it is that, so far, I've managed to level several alts to at least 50 (safe-delete range!) in just TWO ZONES. (Not "Vanilla" zones, they're often a bit smaller. But any expansion afterward seems to work that way.) One alt. Basically Loremaster-ing two zones. Delete, repeat, two new zones. I don't know how many times I can do this before I've seen the entire game again, but as I've said, I'm greatly enjoying WoW again, and my altohol-ism is extremely satisfied. Instead of hopping around between characters, trying to figure out what I feel like playing, I'm eagerly logging into the same one each time until their personal story seems complete. I'm still doing some gold-grinding on my 70s to get a token every month, but decided that that was no longer a goal. I can easily get a token every other month with the most bare-bones weekly completions on my main (another arms warrior!), and ~$7/month is nothing for the amount of fun I'm having. So thank you once more, miss Latte, for encouraging me to ditch alleged efficiency in favor of fun. It still feels dumb that it's taken me so long to figure that out, but there's no sense lamenting time lost. My Zandalari sanguimancer is nearing the end of her blood-soaked rampage through Nazmir, and I'm looking forward to making my next character!

I'm excited to again earn that Weekly Chest of Disappointment by doing solo content, and was highly amused that even Blizzard referred to it that way during BlizzCon 😅 Hopefully Delves will be amazing. Your content is often perfect for me because I too avoid dungeons and LFR for the most part, though I'll run everything once to complete quests if I have any. I personally avoid burnout by...playing other games for a day or two. I used to feel like I HAD to play WoW if my sub was active, or I was wasting money; but especially now that I'm paying with gold anyway, it seems silly to burn myself out over a weird idea of saving a couple dollars. WoW's only purpose is entertainment; if it doesn't entertain me, I shouldn't even log in. Duh. Yes, I've been an adult for a long time now, and am still figuring all these simple things out. 😂

Omg I have been looking for this video for ages thinking it had disappeared since I couldn't remember the exact title! Thank you for the reupload :D

Thank you so much for sharing your perspective on how you plan and how you play, especially the part about if you feel like doing something... you do it ! I can get lost if my lists and plans and checklists, sometimes I forget I can just do whatever I feel like. It is a game, and we're allowed to get immersed in the story, the mog, the world, the exploration, the challenge...whatever is drawing our attention. And that's okay! Love your channel and have been so happy to catch some streams on Twitch, you have a wonderful community and it's a blast to see all the adventures you get up to.

Thanks, I've really been enjoying your videos about alts and solo play.

I'm definitely in the grind period now - trying to knock out DF achievements and collectibles as I can. I got my "main" alts to max but the way they redid the crafting system makes me feel like I'm too behind to catch up, since you need to collect the weekly points for the specializations. Def looking forward to your updated DF take on planning!

I'm so glad you uploaded this again KL and I look forward to the new version.

I appreciate this look as it doesn’t push “omg you gotta raid raid raid!!” The last time I was in a raid guild was back in Legion. It burned me out and now I just play casual. Enjoying the story and slower pace is the name of the game now for me. 😎👍

Awesome post! Kind of curious what your thoughts are about the Warband system, just because the last i checked, you were up to a small canada of alts..LOL

This seems like a very well thought out and enjoyable path to follow.

See now this would be perfect if I didn't have the desire to sneak other games in. I generally end up coming back a couple expansions later to blast through all content to grab whatever I didn't at the time it was new. Thankfully I don't have altoholism. I always think about other classes but always fall back on my paladin and mage. The introduction of warbands is going to be great for all of this, though.

Im finally crawling back out of the mud that is depression, Pandaren alt army goooooooo!!!

A very good, and very useful, reupload! While everyone will differ, this is a good baseline to go from!

Good advice. Much appreciated.

Very good. Thanks!

It's good to think about the cadence of the game in terms other than the gear, raid, coast, gear, raid, coast cycle.

I might give this a try!! I keep doing the collecting bit first after levelling, but I'm noticing a trend where all the best farming gear and legacy instance tuning happens at the end of an expansion.

Always love Kraken Content. With your impressive alt army though....how PUMPED are you for having all those alts and accounts on the same Bnet to get that Warband love tho?!?!? Great video again as always.

Another great video!

Thanks for the strategy 👍

I really need to make one of these for myself. We'll see if I can do something like this for the War Within!

Nice video and that's pretty much how i've been doing it too

Delightful, is the perfect word for Lattes content

I love your idea for the game. Keep up the good work.

Not going to lie, I got burned out trying to catch up in Dragon Flight, I think it was last year and I quit for good. No intention of going back to WoW. But I still enjoy watching content on the game, ironically, I haven't had the itch to go back and play since I quit, which I usually do.

This is pretty much my play style. I do all the things with my main & whatever I feel like with my alts. It just depends on my mood. When it's not fun/enjoyable, I go do something else. 🙂

It's never too latte to do my part for the youtube algorithm! Great video, cool insights. 👍

I love your content! You are my favourite WoW creator ❤

If they kept up their idea of older content being soloable I would be having so much fun, I could run BFA raids for months to grab all that transmog but so much of it is still horrid for solo players, the numbers are fine but the mechanics just wipe. Currently I want to go back and figure out some effective way to farm the anima/covenant stuff I missed out in shadowlands but the ways to gain anima seem horrible for the tens or hundreds of thousands we need for recolors and the like

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Interesting. I tend to basicly start of by leveling my main. My Shaman. So i have mail armor sets done and ready. Then i level 1 of each armor types. So i level next my plate user, which is my Warrior. Because my shaman main has enchanting and jewelcrafting. I have my warrior as a miner and Blacksmith. I need the ore from him to my shaman. But also geting ready for lfr to get the plate gear mogs. Next. My leather user, being my Demon hunter, that has Alchemy. So herbalism and alchemy done. And leather sets. After that is my last alt, my Shadow Priest. That has tailoring and enchanting. Got to send that damn tailoring cloth mats i dont have any use for. Then i basicly have 1 of each armor types. Cloth, leather, mail and plate. After that it all depends on what time i have. And who i feel like leveling next. I usualy use the Timewalking events to level alts, one after another. maybe 2-3 of the each time walking event. ... i have 26 alts rightt now. At max. Not really something i level because i must. But its fun. Makes it easier when you want to collect armor sets. Since that becomes. At least for me right now. 5 mail users. Since i can only have 1 evoker on my main server. Right now at least. 6 plate users, 8 leather users and 6 cloth users. On my main server. But i also have 1 extra max level paladin i leveled on a friends server. Becuase he was badgering me about leveling an alliance toon on that server. And that is basicly that. I dont do much content otherwise on my alts. As i skip all of that. Just focusing on doing lfr, collecting mogs. Maybe some mats here and there. Weekly stuff. Like the Superbloom and the aiding the dream walkers weekly for the gear. And mogs. Got my shaman to renown 11 for dreamwalkers. So now i can chill with the alts for the aiding the dreamwalkers 1500 rep quest. Just doing the seeds enough for the weekly. Not doing the full 5 seeds if i can avoid it. Since that is another weekly for the mog gear. And in general just chill.And since much of my time spent in wow i just waiting. I play my playstation whille i wait. And its worth it. Since when you have multiple alts. Collecting mog sets is so much easier. Especialy the current stuff. Imagin playing 1 character. And you want to collect the lfr armor set. Will be a pain. But if you had 2 mail users.. easier. Since the currrency you use for upgrades.. Will not be overloading that 1 character. but spread to all those that can get the gear. So for me 5 alts that can get mail gear. Makes everything so much easier.... But now i still need to go back and do some of the older raids. Like Vault of the incarnates to get some of the missing gear i didnt manage to get. Becuase i didnt have enough chracters.

Which of these phases do you enjoy the most?

me thinkies I shall take a few of ya tips. 😺

Are you planning on releasing anything on raw gold farming for the tail end of Dragonflight?

Is there a method you recommend for squeezing in collecting in and/or being a completionist old world content? I finally settled on a main (yes, I'm slow, shush) and now I have the daunting task of going through all of the old world content and getting through as many quests and scenarios as possible, as well as collecting mount, pets, and mog from everywhere. I know you went through this effort toward the end of Shadowlands and I'm hoping you have some words of wisdom to go about it. Thank you for all of you terrific content!!!

The sad irony of this video. When someone you love becomes your job, its not longer "fun".. hope all is good and your enjoying the break

Sounds good but some stuff and achivments gets really hard when its not current alot of dragonflight farms are impossible if not done.while current

Interesting! Do you try getting LFR colors while it's current content as well? Or do you wait for it to be soloed?

its a good idea but with the microsoft deal we can expect change so maybe it goes from 2 to 1 year. At that level you would change or rather expect a change

i definitely cant help but wonder if Follower Dungeons coming soon is going to change your plans, even slightly.

Any tips on how to grind the stuff that are in the elite area of the zones? Like it's still hard to solo rares in .1 patch zones with .2 patch gear but by the time you get to the grind year the .0 and .1 zones would be empty?

Do you have an updated addons list?

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I'm guessing no time for other games. You just play WoW lol?

Its interesting to see that people play like this.... Spending 3 years simply just doing open world content is crazy to me..... Based on priorities i guess.. to my open world content is terrible.... very boring.. repetitive... unrewarding... Im basically done with Wow 2 - 3 weeks after a expansion drops... If I had to spend any more then 5 - 10 hours TOTAL doing open world content I wouldnt survive lol

I just stay on my druid my lazy ass lol owl mode baby