Azul wrote:Disagreement. I think sisyphean is reserved for such tasks that are unstoppable and inevitable, not that which is repetitive. But maybe that's an viewpoint you only get from reading Camus.
Sisyphus is forced to do something ridiculous and unfun and pointless forever and ever. That's how I see epic flying mounts and raiding.
Raiding and raiding and raiding until you're driven insane. And then what comes next? I new expansion! Ten more levels until you go back to raiding and raiding and raiding. The battlegrounds were no different.
The word has a static definition labeled onto it, but, in essence, it's meant to denote something that seems like the punishment of Sisyphus.