Sometimes when you’re new and an atmosphere starts forming you can find yourself making jokes to avoid ‘falling in’ to it as a reflex - because some part of you is trying to reassert control over the emotions that were getting touched by it.

This was my experience and I’ve seen it happen to others. Just try to recognize it if that’s happening to you and try to embrace it instead of pushing it away.

Or maybe your group likes to make goofy jokes the whole time, thats a different experience but also valid.

My best experiences have been a split, lots of little jokes then suddenly we all get really into something without expecting it and they drop away for a bit and re emerge later.

I came back recently too and honestly it feels great. Having so much fun. They don’t have the frustrating gimmicks that defined previous expansions, the new talent trees are really well made, the gear drops are fun and interesting.

It’s a bit worrying for me to be getting pulled into wow again, I thought I was safe…

Yeah, but most games can’t handle that many explosions so they just crash unfortunately.