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As funny as the title sounds, it’s a serious question. Dawngrrl is rapidly approaching level 58, the magical age in which she gets to hop along to the new zones and really start to see the Burning Crusades expansion.

I have still not even purchased the expansion. My Undead Warlock, Philoboy, has been marred at level 41 for months…and months. I have logged in, even got almost to 42, just a shade away, but I just can’t get back into it. I have tried, honestly I have tried. I guess to me World of Warcraft is a lot like Poker. If I am playing well, and I have a big stack, it’s so much fun. If I am the small stack, and everyone else is pushing around big stacks of chips, I just lose interest. I am not a grinder. I never have been.

When there were quests abound and many new places to explore, I had so much fun. When the places started to become contested, and I couldn’t finish a single quest without getting raped by some 14 year old level 70 punk, I lost the love.

I really do want to play. Dawn is having so much fun and the excitement is infectious. I want to get farther. I just can’t get into it. It’s hard to solo as a Warlock, one mob and I am toast. Collecting Soul Stones feels like doing the laundry. Even traveling from one continent to the next and watching the flight paths carry out the most hideous excuses for good flight planning (is there no air traffic control in Azeroth? Why would you fly left to go right?) has just driven me to a lack of desire to play the game.

So I pose these questions to my WoW playing readers:

• Would starting a new character on a non-PVP server help?
• Would a different class be more fun to solo?
• Do you have any tips to just help me kickstart the fun again?
• Should I just stick to the Xbox 360 and forget this WoW Stuff?

I would love to hear your answers, I’ll be waiting.