I know this just too well:
I love the leveling grind of WoW. It’s why I prefer a PvE server to a PvP server, in fact, since it’s hard to get into the zen-like grind-mind I enjoy when I’m constantly being ganked. And it’s why I so resent being ganked, in fact…those players are interrupting my cleansing trance, my “I don’t need to think very hard about this” downtime activity
via Terra Nova: In Praise of the Grind
Only problem: I am playing on a PvP server. But there isn’t much open pvp going on in the regions where I twink. My favorite mode of playing is the mindless running in circles to gather Blindweed North of Nethergarde.