Title says it all pretty much. What do you think the 1-60 (i.e. sub 61-70, non Outland) leveling experience will be like in TBC assuming we get the expansion as many suspect we will?
Obviously there will be a lot of people making Alliance shamans and horde paladins, but will those classes alone really be enough for a thriving leveling scene in the old world like we had in the first few phases of classic? Will people even be questing and running Vanilla dungeons or will most boost their characters?
I mainly ask since I have an alt I want to level and I’m wondering if I should just wait for a potentially larger leveling community in TBC since we’re pretty much at the end of Classic and leveling is kinda tough right now this late in the game, even on the bigger servers.
Obviously all we can do is speculate, but I’m just interested in how the community thinks things will turn out.
Personally I’m hoping that the popularity of TBC will attract a lot of new players to the game and that the buffing of certain classes/specs will make people want to roll and/or re-roll characters other than just Horde paladins and Alliance shamans.
If you can afford to boost a character, do it now since that’s faster/less effort than any other alternative and will get nerfed severely in TBC.
Otherwise, just wait. They reduce the exp required to level and questing gets VASTLY improved with TBC. There are more quests, they give more exp and better rewards. You can quest from 1-60 in TBC in a fraction of the time it takes in Vanilla, and its generally a more pleasant experience besides.
And as for the general leveling population, it will obviously be much higher in TBC at least initially. You’ll have people coming back to/starting the game, people swapping factions/servers/classes, people wanting to try the new race/class. In general you’ll have many many more people leveling in the first few weeks/months of TBC
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Protection Paladin boost from 1-60 in TBC. It’ll be the fastest way, more than likely.
Yea I suspect Prot’s will take the boosting crown from mages unless they make some changes to the way exp is distributed. Questing may still be faster in some cases though, if less convenient.
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I’m leveling an alt when TBC hits.
Remember how overpopulated servers were? Even with layering turned on?
Imagine what Hellfire Peninsula will look like.
I’ll be leveling my paladin while that mess blows over!
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Personally I plan on re-experiencing the BE/draeni zones, and my main is a paladin so I won’t likely make another one. I am sure there are others who are thinking the same
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Probably gonna reroll a Paladin when it launches, although I’ll be a Human, not a BE. I also have a Shaman alt I’m working on so possibly that. I’d level the Pally now except I don’t want to pay for boosting and I don’t really enjoy leveling as Ret. Looking forward to leveling as Prot and actually tanking like a tank.
I’m currently leveling during phase 6. Planning on leveling a Draenei paladin from lvl 1 if TBC comes out too.
I think Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms will be popping the first few months after it’s release
It will depend on the server. Some classic servers are mostly boosting and others have very few paid boosts. If they do server copies servers like mine will have lots of people rolling draenei and Belf and leveling and doing dungeons with level appropriate groups.
Once I get 3 of my 4 current 60s to 70, I’ll be leveling up an Alliance Sham and hunter.
Both Draenei. I’m sure the leveling scene will be healthy enough for the first few months at least.
warriors will be good boosters from lvl 11-35/40?
But ya the entire way to 60 prot pallies will be BIS
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Oh lord not again. I can’t level another toon. I won’t!
doubt there will be many boosters… the ones that will be boosting will be charging insane amounts of gold. 2 Reasons for this.
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People will be leveling their characters to 70 instead of boosting other players.
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Gold making in OUTLAND will be MUCH easier than boosting people. Unless they are paying you thousands of gold. Questing and just playing TBC in general will net you more gold. TBC is where gold inflation started.
I’ll be rolling on one of, if they are not all, fresh TBC servers.
I’d assume the leveling scene will be very active on it.
Personally I think they should just crush TBC and Classic together and not make a separate 60-70 game. Makes better sense to me but who knows.
I hear you. I’m going to just run dungeons for rep/xp until I get to nagrand level.
Note you only need to reach level 58 to begin questing in outlands.
Once you go there at 58, you can easily hit level 60-61 in HFP alone. Just do a dungeon or two.
depends what patch we get
During original TBC Blizzard revamped some of the quests, added flight paths and even added a quest hub to Dustwallow marsh. The level required for the 60% mount was reduced to 30. Items from Vanilla quests and dungeons got revamps generally making them more powerful. I dont believe they released this stuff with the 2.0 patch but I think it quite possible Classic TBC will have this stuff in from phase 1.
I think some people might chose to reroll classes that are the TBC races, but I would guess most people will continue to play characters that are 60 before we get TBC if they dont wish to play alliance shaman or horde paladin.
I personally plan to level another character to 60 in the next couple of months in preparation for TBC and I suspect a lot of people will do the same if they wish to play another class in TBC.
While I think most people would like to continue playing the characters they have now in to TBC. I think there are decent amount of people that would prefer that Blizzard released fresh TBC servers where everyone will start from level 1 in addition to servers where players will continue playing their current Classic characters.
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