A member of my WoW guild's discord mentioned that they didn't understand how someone could hate grinding in modern WoW, but still be fine with grinding in Vanilla for hours. I responded with a few points on why grinding as a gameplay element is contextual. "Each game is different with its grind and my enjoyment in my opinion. Grinds feel better when the game as a whole is slow-paced, like vanilla is. It isn't out of place to spend months getting an upgrade because the upgrades before that also took months. Even the catch-up mechanics/content that existed in vanilla (like Zul Gurub) still required a lot of grind to put you into a certain spot. Right now, you can get to a comfortable item level for starting heroic raiding within the same week you hit max level, but then the grind hits and upgrades come slower and slower because the grind is behind increasingly less likely RNG. The grind there just doesn't feel right given the rest of the game's rewards pacing.
"Grinds also typically feel better when it's about a lot of small, high-or-100% chance things rather than a few low chance things. Vanilla had this problem of course, like in quest items and gear, but modern WoW tacked on an extra level of RNG with titanforging which can feel pretty bad. WotLK with its badge system is an excellent example of a good form of grinding, or Runescape's leveling system. "Monotony in the action of the grind is pretty important too. Runescape kind of sucks at this if you're a max-efficiency kind of person, as the actions are often exactly the same motions for hours on end, but since it does provide a variety of options, it's not too bad for the more casual players. Vanilla leveling was pretty monotonous, but it did provide opportunities to change it up, like, quests weren't always kill quests, and mistakes usually lead to a nice break in the typical gameplay (like pulling more than one or pulling while oom). Modern WoW I think is pretty decent at this portion, personally. It's just the other categories weighing it down."
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