On the lack of humanity in our community.

[Adire]

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Exactly, which is why you shouldn't allow yourself to be so vulnerable to depression.

I don't think you can honestly say anyone has put a sizeable amount of time into AST at this point. The expansion itself has only been out about a month and a half....you could play 24/7 and that still would be a tiny amount of your life's time put into it.

Placing too much importance on a video game is folly, especially an MMO. Especially a new job in an MMO. Of all the jobs in the game, the new jobs were most likely to have balancing issues after HW.

Picking one as your main...you should have known that to be risky, even more so picking it and attaching yourself to it to the point where your world ends if it doesn't perform up to standards immediately, and people prefer not to use it for a while.

If being asked to switch your job in a game upsets you this much (as trivial as it really seems to me), it might be time to move away from the game or take a break. For your own good.