Gaming Funk - The disinterest in any games that hits after playing for a while.
And so now after playing World of Warcraft for a while I can feel it settling in once again... What has lead me up to it this time?
When the last expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, I did what a lot of folks did, I leveled my "primary" character 80th with my paladin as fast as I could. I then of course started doing heroic instances and other such things to progress my character and prepare for raiding. After everyone got ready to raid we started raiding Naxx and other such places (when I actually can get a spot... a bazillion other tank types doesn't help there).
After a few weeks, more and more people got to 80th, and of course a large number were Death Knights, Warriors, and a few other protection paladins. Which then kicked off the struggling to get a spot in a raid, to say I was annoyed is putting it lightly. So I went ahead and played healer with my paladin for a few weeks... While I sometimes enjoy that roll, it just isn't what I like to do these days... way to much like whack-a-mole, the only "situational" awareness you truly have to have for that is making sure you aren't standing some where you are going to die. So as you might guess, man was it boring and tedious.
So now what am I to do... raiding is still going on with hardly a shortage on tanks. I could spend more time playing with technology in the evenings, but unfortunately when I start in on that I miss everything going on around me. I start coding/experimenting and any show I'm trying to watch with the wife after the kids go to bed (when I normally play around with games and stuff) gets ignored completely because of how engrossed I get.
Well at this point I think I'll try signing up for some raids to play around with my friends in there and spend the rest of my off time getting my office and servers set back up.