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I probably play 25-30 hours a week. Seems like quite a bit.

That's a fifteen hour workday son! No wonder you burned out.

I'de say I play about 6 hours everyday and the weekends it can jump to 15 on fri/sat/sun each. Its rather addicting, Everything requires so much time and effort. If I only had an hour a day I don't think i'de get anything out of it. Heck I spend the first hour checking my mail on all my toons....

I usually can get in 3-5 hours during the week, and maybe another 5 during the weekend. Every now and then I will get lucky and be able to do a hardcore weekend where I am playing close to 20 hours, but they are usually 3 months apart.

It sounds like you are in the same situation as me, and have commitments that keep you from putting in a lot of time. Just realize what your limitations are with shorter play sessions... You will most likely not be a raider. You are going to take longer to see content. You are going to progress slower than your friends.

What I would suggest is sitting down and figuring out what you need to do and what you want to do every week. This way, you can make sure to effectively use your time when you log in.

Give to me your stuff.

Edited, Nov 6th 2007 2:42pm by EonSprinter

Thanks, it was just a random one I found.

I spend way too much time on warcraft tbh. everyday I am having bg marathons these days >.<

To get started with arena it does indeed take a lot of time... to farm honor, get a few pvp items (WAIT WITH BUYING THEM 'till 2.3.0 arrived... a good lot will change) and to get decent weapons to wield. Once you have what you need to be effective in arena and everything is enchanted it's easier.

If you are pretty much geared out pre-arena you can just do your 10-30 arena games per week which may net in a total of 10 hours online per week. Once you are at that point it doesn't need much more except if you want to actually get your arena rating up by a lot, u'll have to do some more arena's then.
All this matters on is that you set pre-set days and times when you are going to go arena. As long as that works out you don't need to meanlessly log on if you don't want to.


However... The getting there does take it's time. If you can't log on so often it will just take some longer :) don't let yourself get discouraged.

About 10 hours per week. I'd play more, but I have a full-time career, wife, kids, and post graduate degree I'm working on.

I found that 10 hours per week was enough to grind BG and Arena honor, and do a little world PVP with friends. But it's not enough to raid. It's enough to keep me happy..... even though I'd really like to see some end game content.

Now that I'm leveling from 60-70 I'm playing more. About 3 hours a night weeknights, and maybe another 10 total on the weekend. 25 hours a week.

Let me break it down so I can add it up again...

Weeknights I try and play from about 8 - 11 (depending on shows), so 15 hours during the week minus an hour for Heroes. 14 hours. Weekends vary wildly. Some weekends I can get it 12 hours, others 2. Lets call that an average of 6! So I can generally get it 20 hours a week.

Not counting a half hour in the AH before work each morning, so honestly I'd say 23 hours (average).

I've actually been thinking alot about this recently. I've scaled way back, so currently I'm playing:

- About 9 hours total across Mon - Thurs.
- Saturday varies hugely, depending on RL. Can do marathons from morning until it's time to go out to dinner/bars or skip WoW entirely.
- Most of the day Sunday (10 hours easy)
- In total, my range is 20 - 35 hours a week, averaging somewhere in the middle.

If I only played my 70, that would be plenty of time, but alts have gotten the better of me (and now a RL buddy has started playing, so it's back to L.1). Even with the alts, that's enough time for Arena and some raiding, but my guild raids weekEND nights, which are out of the question for me these days. So on my 70 it's 2v2 Arena, occasional BGs for that last piece of Vet's armor, and just a tiny bit of farming mats for my Spellfire pieces. If I'm feeling wild and crazy I'll do the Skettis dailies b/c with an epic flier it's the easiest 20g you can make in this game.

Well, I'm still under the six month mark playing the game so I play quite a bit trying to catch up to guild members that have been playing since beta. Monday, Wednesday, Friday I play midnight to 6am. Tuesday, Thursday I play 7pm to 3am and on the weekends I sleep in to about 2pm and then play until 4-6am. So on average thats about 65 hours on average.

I'm military and all my friends and family are about 600 miles away so I just stay at home and save money so when I do return I can afford to party like a rock star.