This game is interesting money-wise, especially when it comes to gear.  There are no repair costs, but literally everything costs money, and a lot of it.

1. Ports: it costs a small fortune to move through just one town, anywhere from 1200 to 10k or more.  This is cost prohibitive to new players, which is why newbie travel tokens came into play.  How about just reducing the port cost altogether?
2. Warehouse fees:  Why does it cost money to put stuff in a bank, or send it to someone else? WoW came out the same time as L2 and sending mail to anyone cost nearly nothing, and your bank was free, outside of optional purchase of bags to make it bigger.
3. Weapon and armor upgrades: Holy beans does this get out of hand.  For example my no-grade (level 1 to 19, technically) gear was probably around 45k.  I skipped D grade but a mithril set was probably 1 mill.  My C grade set was 3 mill.  So from no grade to C grade, a 6500% increase.  You can see how it’s basically pointless to sell your own gear to help with newer gear.  Letting a 3 mill C grade set go for a 30 mill B grade set is ridiculous 900% increase.  3 mill is nothing in that case.

Then even if you do come up with 30 mill, you need more than that to account for other increases, especially in the realm of weapons.  Shots and spiritshots cost more as your weapon gets better.  As any class but especially summoner, you can’t drop all your money on your armor because you need some at a minimum for shots and crystals to even summon your ‘weapon’ which is your pet.

I still want BW light because I get hit quite hard just once or twice if I can’t get my pet to pull aggro quick enough, but I’ll have to buy it at 30m but have 40 mill just in case for other things.

1. World pvp.  Since they got rid of world defense and started the pvp toggle thing effectively putting you on a pvp server, I haven’t done any of that.  I’m not interested in just fighting people while questing, I want to do it in zones like WG and TB or defending zones.  This can’t even be done any more on retail and in classic, my server has no Horde anyway. So this fun is OVER.
2. Raiding, I haven’t raided seriously since MoP and my last 6 or so guilds have been dead and I don’t expect that to get any better. I use to enjoy farming up mats to raid and look forward to getting gear but not any more. It’s basically OVER.
3. Battlegrounds, have been a mess for a while and although it’s still kinda fun in classic, I gave up on retail. So it’s like half OVER.
4. Arena/rbgs yeah, haven’t done those in a long while.
5. Questing, after questing in SWTOR, WoW questing seems really bland.  Mind you Legion questiong and story was AMAZING but BfA felt like I was missing out on the major storyline and hd to read a book, or play horde to even get it.  Classic questing I’ve done before so yeah. Not really worth staying for.
6. Pet battles.  I’m sure those are still around.  I did enjoy those but 15 a month to play pokemon, yeah.
7. Social this is a big one.  I use to have battleground partners, dungeons, arena, rbgs, general friends, but they are all gone. All.

I hit 70 on my priest, finally, but gosh the world feels empty.  I was in Netherstorm the other day and a hunter kept tagging my mobs and it felt bot like.  I healed a boomkin who was nearly dead, cheered after they killed the mob and buffed them but they didn’t even give any indication they noticed.  I also buffed a rogue and they didn’t say a thing.  No one asks to group or anything.

I think I will cancel my sub.  It’s sad but I haven’t had an active guild since MoP (Post Mortem), haven’t played with any friends in  years, and don’t have a group to play with any more (not since Legion). I don’t even feel a desire to earn pvp gear any more after ranking to 12 in classic, do bgs or dungeons, or raid.

I’ve been chugging along in classic for a while but I’m starting to think the problem is the players more than the game in general.  For example, in retail I had guilds that lasted at least a year from Wrath through MoP.  Like talking to people every day, getting asked to heal everything, raiding, arena, rbgs, everything.  The once Post Mortem blew up, it was just guilds ending left and right.  No one asked me to heal or do anything, for a long time.

Classic has been the same only, guilds last about 3-4 months.  I don’t raid, dungeon, or get asked to do anything.  Can’t seem to make friends.  I had that one friend from the start of classic who just disappeared one day, and I think it was because I casually said something about the political color of my state.

It’s probably time to just stop playing.  I may log my retail characters in all at key locations for them and stop.