I don’t think in my friends case that they wanted to start in BfA because they wanted that whole experience and I acknowledge that’s too much for one questline. But I think there’s a couple ways to streamline those storylines for people to experience and get through at the same speed as people that just wanna power level.
There could be a summarized questline for each expansion that just hits all the big lore bits. And there could be 1 “major” quest line that hits all the lore bits that are pertinent to the current expansion. So for DF - demon soul/aspect losing their power, skip to the Legion being defeated, whatever happened in BfA/Shadowlands that’s relevant, and then boom you’re 60, you know why you’re going to the new xpacs location, what the mission is, who the relevant players are.
OP has 1 point.
You NEED to turn off XP at some point in the leveling experience if you want to go through old xpac quests / stories.
The Problem here is new players have NO IDEA about the turn off experience option.
You also need to gear up your character especially if you want to turn war mode on.
However the game is so huge, Blizzard has done the best it can to provide the best possible leveling experience.
If anyone has a better idea of how to experience the game please share.
Good, cuz I’m only making a single point, it’s in the title.
Absolutely not the route I’m suggesting. Turn off XP? That’s literally preposterous, lol.
No, it’s far from the best and IF that’s the best they can do with billions of $$ from the cash (c)WoW then holy crap they’re incompetent. This isn’t a Blizz sucks thread. This is a “new player experience sucks” thread.
Currently? I’d love to know the answer as well. The solution? Extend Exiles Reach to be a full blown 1-60 experience. Or 1-current expansion minimal level.
How would you like max level at say 140 and goes up every Xpac and taking lets say 2 months to get there with no level boosts / power leveling?
So your new player that can play 1h day on Monday -Friday and a few more on Saturday and Sunday, it will take them 6months to get to max level on 1 character…sound fair to ‘new’ players?
What would this have ANYTHING to do with my suggestion? You can power level with dungeons, old content, OR you can still POWERLEVEL with a single questline that takes you from 1-60/70/80/90/100/110/120/130/140/150/160/170/180/190/200. Im suggesting an option for newbs to join that explains the story. Every new expansion they would just adjust that SINGLE QUEST to add the relevant bits and xp to get to the current expansion.
Newbs can catch up on the old stories by turning off XP, like i said earlier.
OR level to 70 at a fast pace and enjoy the new story as it gets released.
“If anyone has a better idea of how to experience the game please share.”
Bring back the old level cap. Update quests and create main story quest lines in all expansion zones to walk players through the old content, make the level boost a free option so old and returning players can bypass the leveling experience and go straight to the new content.
In addition to timewalking dungeons, make timewalking raids an option.
Ok, but I’m suggesting an option that doesn’t suck.
People don’t like Lord of the Rings or insert your favorite anime cuz they only watch the ending. You get hooked. There’s no hook in WoW until the end.
I agree, turning off XP is not the best option especially when people dont even know it is an option that exists, however taking 3 months to grind a reputation to exalted status also sucked.
And to make things worse once you turn off XP you get locked out of normal battlegrounds so learning PvP for new players is even harder.
Learning basic PvP skills at Level 70 is not ideal. New players stuff up, they get abused for sucking and leave the game…
Idk, that’s not the point I’m trying to make though yeah, attempting to do the old stuff to completion is pretty unrewarding as far as completing it for the storyline goes.
The point is, my friends wanted to learn the story and already planned to make alts for each expansion, but by the time we finish 1.5-2 zones we were already lvl 60. Once you hit lvl 61 everything becomes trivial, time walking doesn’t even work, and xp rates from quests return like 25xp. So in short, I’m just suggesting they take the Exiles Reach concept and turn it into a full blown 1-60 experience. As an OPTION to what is currently out there.
I don’t want to hear the argument “thaTS tOo mucH WoRK”. it’s literally 1 questline.
As a veteran player, and an alt a holic, my suggestion for new players who want to experience “the story” is to do the island, then BFA. Go through DF (either finish or bounce at max) and then go back to wherever you’re interested in the storyline and play through.
So what if you’re max level already?
There are literally so many things to do, see, collect in this game that if you never do a raid or m+ you still have a ton of options at max level. Even more so if you want to complete the story lines in each xpac. You can pretty much solo every instance and raid in most of the older content.
Imho chromie time is way better than it used to be. I’m not a power leveler, I quest and still only go through a few zones to level. But that’s so much better than going through every expansion and leveling out of content constantly. That, for me, was a real drag. At least now we can choose what we want to focus on and go back at max if we so choose.
Also, whoever commented that DF leveling sucks. I couldn’t agree more. It’s fine the first time or two but Im not dragging alts through there. I’ll wait until the next xpac comes out and I can stay in chromie time to hit 70.
Yeh it’s not great, but once you have Chromie Time access you can at least go back and do that.
While the next part is not ideal, if you make a trial account and party sync you can keep any character on Chromie Time for as long as you keep them party synced with a low level trial.
But that would mean you need 2 WoW accounts open so you can have Trial A just sitting in Org or SW and main account A going and doing quests until you are done with the zone.
Funny, this is the most Paladin I’ve ever felt, actively smiting down the wicked disguised as complacent shillism to reveal a simple truth about how crap this game presents to new players.