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1) Manage Your Own Expectations
If you are a married man working 60 hours a week, you probably should not be expecting sponsorships or deadly gladiator titles. Likewise, do not expect to be part of a serious raid guild for server firsts. Over stretch yourself and you will be forced to make decisions, and usually RL takes precedence and you are forced to take a break from the game. Look at Minti-sama armory, still using S5 honor pieces, no longer raiding
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2) Manage Your Teammate Expectations
Like wise you need to manage your teammate expectations, if their goal is to compete in LAN tournaments you should not be the one holding them back because of your RL responsibilities. I understood 100% when my priest/druid teammates in S3 ended up going for vengeful gladiator with another rogue who was significantly better geared than me, and could play a lot more matches than me. You really have to know your role and stick to
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3) Avoid Grinding At All Costs
Blizzard made the game extremely casual friendly if you just do your daily/weekly quests. Take honor for example, if you just do your Winter grasp / daily PVP quests and give it 6-8 weeks to pick up all the honor pieces, it is a very painless process. Same is with gold farming if you just stick to your dailies. In fact dailies are great for stay in touch with your friends, you log on for 30 minutes or so everyday to do a couple of dailies, check your mail, it is a light gaming session and fun. I been really digging the fishing dailies, I find it very relaxing to my soul after a long day. Grinding on the other hand is the fastest way to lose interest; does it really matter if you get 20 stats today or a week later? Not to mention min-max has heavy diminishing returns at higher gear levels when it comes to effort vs reward of
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