Ok, man.
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On the other hand, you guys like the TP pet lmao
This ^
In classic there was no linear story, you jad scattered mini arcs that spanned several quests and level 'tower of althalax’in darkshore for example. It wasnt till end game when got plot driven arcs specific to rags, nef, onyxia, and naxx.
BC was more or less the same except the plot was tighter in scope compared to vanilla.
Starting from wrath the expac narratives have become more focused and its easier to keep up with the plot.
I agree leveling has become comically fast but it’s intentional in order to get you to current content. The old world stuff isn’t going anywhere so you can always go back to run some quests for mogs or story.
Play your game the way you want and have fun
If anything they should make leveling faster the game starts at max level.
This wouldn’t solve the story problem.
So, you learn about all of these things, and then you get dropped into Dragonflight and…uh oh, who is Sabellian? Who is Tyr?
And then The War Within is released and features Xalatath. Where was she in your story recap?
You were right in saying that WoW’s story has remained mostly linear (ignoring how Cataclysm removing the old world completed screwed up the storytelling or how some races/classes start at different points of time in their original starting experiences). But getting new players invested in the world cannot require putting them through “lore school” to learn about 30 years of Warcraft history. You have to put them in the world beginning at a determined point (Battle for Azeroth), and say “here’s where we are…the Horde and Alliance are rival factions at war. Each faction is looking for new allies and needs new ships to defend their lands…so they’ve gone to the greatest naval powers in Azeroth…and now our story begins…”
And then you let the story play out from there and they can learn any important back story bits along the way.
Blizzard has actually done a really great job about this in Draginflight. A lot of characters have “who are you? What are we doing? Who are these bad guys?” types of dialogue options to give you more context when you want it.
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We tried to just play through but at 61 you’re forced to max content and then everything is trivialized. It’s not fun.
I think they should make DF the new player experience when TWW comes out (I think they are) and adjust quest so that new players aren’t referred to as past heroes. It would then be framed as though the player is an above average recruit for the Expedition. I mean… it’d be wierd for Sab and Wrathion to refer to the past with level 10 brand new players. It’s already weird for me since I didn’t do MoP questline and was away for BFA. They could also tune experience so you’d see the whole campaign and be near 70. Would it make the story make sense? Probably not. But at least a new player’s character would be just as clueless as the player themselves, instead of all this implied knowledge.
So they can craft the noobie storyline 1-60 around current content. Remove anything that isn’t used anymore and (while may be a big part of X expansion) no longer relevant in the current expansion.
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I agree with this. Blizzard is making a mistake by constantly referring to old achievements players may have done a decade ago.
It’s kind of cool if you actually did those things on that character, but it’s completely jarring when you did not.
That would be better than what we just experienced, tbh.
I agree with this idea. It would be a lot of work for them, so I doubt it’ll happen. But this is a solid approach.
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If it matters so much to someone, they have the option of doing all the old expansions in order if they wish. But new people that just want to get into the current expansion with their friends can also do that. This is a win-win.
This is exactly what my two friends said. Not difficult and too fast. And yeah, I tell them, it’s not about the journey in retail. The difficult stuff is at the end. They’re still playing but all I am saying… provide a compelling storyline from start to end-game, we might not see so many ghost towns around here. War Within is the perfect opportunity it sounds like.
It’d be a bit more work depending on how much they want to reference the past, but it’d be so much more immersive if dialog looked at completed quests. Even if it took the whole account into consideration, for people who have main swapped. Going back to Wrathion, since I’ve never done a quest for him, idk him or why I should help him; and because I’m already his champion regardless, the urge to “prove myself” is lessened. It takes away character motivation. Makes it feel more gamey.
Odd.
You invited friends to play in a lvl 60+ zone
But you are upset that they reached lvl 60?
I agree the leveling is fast and with so many expansions, unless youʻve played through them all they really donʻt make much sense to a new player.
“Annnd over here we have Pandaria!”
“Why?”
“Um… because pandas… anyway moving on here we have Warlords of Draenor!”
“isnt this just like that B.C. place?”
“Naw its a different dimension.”
“Why?”
“… um… because it is… moving on we have The Broken Isles!”
“What are they for?”
“… not sure, but you get a class hall and an outdated cool looking weapon!.. moving on we have Zandalar and KulTiras!”
“…and they are here because…?”
“We needed boats… anyway next we have the Shadowlands the afterlife!”
“So i go here everytime i die?”
“Not actually… its the afterlife after you really really die… even though you can die again in here but not really really die…”
“iʻm so lost…”
“To be frank I am too…”
You can turn off XP gains 
WOD is only way to level fast
As someone who actually brought in 3 noobs to wow it took us around 60-70 dungeons to hit level 60. then another 20-30 to hit 70. By then they learned how their class works and what spec they wanted to play,
So if your going to lie 2 things
- dont use a alt otherwise its a obviously troll
- make it more reasonable if your going to exaggerate
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I poured a bag of chocolate chips into a bowl and I am eating them by just throwing my head back and pouring the bowl of chocolate chips into my mouth