I've noticed that lately when i log into UO i basicly sit in my house and watch general chat while doing something else, as I can't think of anything in the game I'd actually like to do.
I've done the spawns to death, and being as there's rarely anyone in our guild on I solo them all which is a bit boring in itself, but i've gotten to the point that, thanks to gear and stacking my stats way high I'm able to finish the spawns myself. (gotta love area damage slayer heavy crossbows). I'm not just talking baracoon either...i do rikktor, meph, and basicly all but oaks and semidar solo (i'm not a mage, cant polymorph, makes semidar wayyyy too hard). Did an oaks solo once though, not worth it, takes way, way too long.
I've explored all the facets top to bottom, know all the secret rooms, passphrases, and other cool stuff from back when the devs were actually still trying to make UO feel like a living world.
Doom, peerless, named monsters....done those all to death, even before I'd come to siege.
Dungeons....got them all memorized, but not much to do in them these days, massacring a house full of evil mages loses it's amusement very quickly.
Quests....boring from day 1, I never enjoyed them.
Treasure hunting....the level 7 maps made it interesting at first, having to come up with new tactics for the super hard dragons, but when it came down to it it wasn't notably different from l6's and again, got old fast.
SA/underworld mini-champs/bosses....easy and boring, same tactics as basicly all the new monsters, keep yourself healed and hammer them until they're dead, which takes forever thanks to 50k hp. (the worst being the rats, at 25k hp, high phys resist, and 60 freaking wrestle...you can literally go afk and kill that boss as at 120 skill he has no chance of hitting you)
PVP...been there, done that, it's boring fighting the same 2-3 people all the time, if you happen to be on the same time as them (otherwise everyone else runs). Actually pvp in general in uo has gone way downhill, it's nowhere near as fun as it used to be, was a lot more fun when everyone had 100 cap to each skill.
PKing...amusing, but people keep hunting the same things over and over....makes it boring on my end too. That and I HATE fighting someones dragon while they run off and hide, I was musing a while back that my new pvp/pk bow needs to have "dragon slayer" on it. (between the bane dragons and greater dragons, it would help me a lot...)
Thieving...same as PKing, i'm sick of silver, sots, and scrolls, sure i get something interesting now and then, but it's getting really hard to find anyone online with anything but bandages on them.
Decor...I have a castle and the pub which many people have told me they love the design of, but I just can't get into decor on siege anymore as it would never be seen by anyone.
It's just not the game I remember anymore, everything done in game feels like a grind now, it's almost at bad as playing world of warcraft (but not quite). I've even tried shard hopping lately, dusting off all my old characters and checking out old favorite areas on Origin (which, IMHO, is less populated than siege now, just you see people more as everyone is afk in luna, actually go out into the world and you never find anyone) and Atlantic (which made me turn general chat off and pop a few asprin after only 10 minutes of exposure, making a sweep of common areas showed me that unless I took to guild intrusion i'd have essentially no way to ever steal anything of value as a thief) but that bored me even more.
/bored rant
I've done the spawns to death, and being as there's rarely anyone in our guild on I solo them all which is a bit boring in itself, but i've gotten to the point that, thanks to gear and stacking my stats way high I'm able to finish the spawns myself. (gotta love area damage slayer heavy crossbows). I'm not just talking baracoon either...i do rikktor, meph, and basicly all but oaks and semidar solo (i'm not a mage, cant polymorph, makes semidar wayyyy too hard). Did an oaks solo once though, not worth it, takes way, way too long.
I've explored all the facets top to bottom, know all the secret rooms, passphrases, and other cool stuff from back when the devs were actually still trying to make UO feel like a living world.
Doom, peerless, named monsters....done those all to death, even before I'd come to siege.
Dungeons....got them all memorized, but not much to do in them these days, massacring a house full of evil mages loses it's amusement very quickly.
Quests....boring from day 1, I never enjoyed them.
Treasure hunting....the level 7 maps made it interesting at first, having to come up with new tactics for the super hard dragons, but when it came down to it it wasn't notably different from l6's and again, got old fast.
SA/underworld mini-champs/bosses....easy and boring, same tactics as basicly all the new monsters, keep yourself healed and hammer them until they're dead, which takes forever thanks to 50k hp. (the worst being the rats, at 25k hp, high phys resist, and 60 freaking wrestle...you can literally go afk and kill that boss as at 120 skill he has no chance of hitting you)
PVP...been there, done that, it's boring fighting the same 2-3 people all the time, if you happen to be on the same time as them (otherwise everyone else runs). Actually pvp in general in uo has gone way downhill, it's nowhere near as fun as it used to be, was a lot more fun when everyone had 100 cap to each skill.
PKing...amusing, but people keep hunting the same things over and over....makes it boring on my end too. That and I HATE fighting someones dragon while they run off and hide, I was musing a while back that my new pvp/pk bow needs to have "dragon slayer" on it. (between the bane dragons and greater dragons, it would help me a lot...)
Thieving...same as PKing, i'm sick of silver, sots, and scrolls, sure i get something interesting now and then, but it's getting really hard to find anyone online with anything but bandages on them.
Decor...I have a castle and the pub which many people have told me they love the design of, but I just can't get into decor on siege anymore as it would never be seen by anyone.
It's just not the game I remember anymore, everything done in game feels like a grind now, it's almost at bad as playing world of warcraft (but not quite). I've even tried shard hopping lately, dusting off all my old characters and checking out old favorite areas on Origin (which, IMHO, is less populated than siege now, just you see people more as everyone is afk in luna, actually go out into the world and you never find anyone) and Atlantic (which made me turn general chat off and pop a few asprin after only 10 minutes of exposure, making a sweep of common areas showed me that unless I took to guild intrusion i'd have essentially no way to ever steal anything of value as a thief) but that bored me even more.
/bored rant