I divide my time between doing things in big blocks: one month I might just do professions/money, another I might be gathering achievements, some month I’m working on mounts, …

And then sometimes I tank for a month, DPS for a month, …

Now that you can gear up in less than a week for normal mode content you can easily switch whenever you feel like it – and get somebody else in the guild to switch roles with you.

The cyclical nature of WoW with content patches caters to this playstyle perfectly.

Tanking is fun again, even the heroic 5-mans, for me now that I haven’t gotten hit in the face for a few months…

I found myself in the same situation with RuneScape, an MMO I used to play since 2002 up until last year. RS doesn’t have raids or instanced dungeons like WoW does, but there was enough grinding content for each of the 24 skills, and always a community of people trying to improve them in the same way. Even lengthy story-line-esque quests, minigames and PvP content. In the later years of RS they’ve added more and more bosses, better drops, stronger equipment… but I was still bored. Eventually I migrated to WoW and rediscovered a boredom-cure.

I find myself doing this with every game I purchase for my console systems. You just eventually get bored with the content and/or delivery of said content and get immersed in another game.

Of course with WoW, I find myself learning new things about the game every day, and how to improve my class/role techniques. Just the other day, as a tankadin, I just realized I had an ability called Divine Sacrifice, and that I could have potentially saved many wipes using it. Learn something new every day.

You could always try using different classes with different specs and other things. I know that you like to heal a lot with your restokin builds, but have you ever tried tanking? Paladin, warrior, DK(bleh)? Or maybe you could try for personal achievements like I tried when I was leveling. Soloing each instance alone, or soloing/duoing vanilla raids. You could even try to gain as many of the in-game achievements as possible.

Again, I’m just throwing some suggestions out there.
Maybe you could even run some instances with me from time to time. Or you could teach me how to heal! I’m a noob at healing.

Personally, I think defining raiders as just casual and hardcore does not provide enough categories. Most of the time when I see people referring to casual and hardcore they are referring to the amount of time that people are playing each week. Which in the BC raiding is good enough to classify raiders, but with the advent of hard modes in WotLK that is no longer enough. We now need a different classification.

Site seers — Raiders who want to see all of the raid content. Hard modes bore you because you’ve been there done that.

Challengers — Raiders that want to be challenged. These are the people that hard modes and achievements were really designed for.

Elitists — My ePeen is biggest in the universe! Hardcore only!

Now we have five different categories of raiders.

Casual Site Seers — These guys spend 1-2 nights a week progressing through content and have either just finished ToC or are about to.

Hardcore Site Seers — They’ve finished ToC for a month or two and are bored out of their mind, but still have no desire for hard modes. ToC has probably destroyed more then a few of these guilds.

Casual Challengers — They’ve finished quite a few hard modes in Ulduar and possibly even a few of the fights in ToGC.

Hard Core Challengers — Ulduar hard modes, check. ToGC, if not complete then we getting there.

Elitists — Yogg + 0, check. A Tribute to Insanity, check. PTR raids, check.

I AM BORED OUT OF MY SKULL.

And yet I really hope they don’t release ICC until I’m back from my winter break…