I’m a returning player. I played classic since day one and burning crusade before stopping. I’m pretty much a noob all over again. So returning now, to retail, I’m a little put off by the level scaling. I miss the grind. I miss taking my time in this beautiful world and just taking it all in. I Just got my first character to lvl 60 and am immediately pushed to either Outland or Northrend. I can no longer access the dungeons I hadn’t yet completed before hitting 60. And I’ve only been through Eversong Woods, Durotar and Northern Barrens. I just feels like I’m been made to choose between content instead of being able to experience it all. Any advice on how to cope with this?
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Give it a little time, and save your expectation for the new leveling system coming next expansion. You’ll be able to choose which expansion you want to level in starting at level 10, and you can go through it from 10-50 (with the new cap being 60 and 50-60 being in Shadowlands content).
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The whole point of scaling was for you to not outlevel a zone before finishing it.
You’re also playing during a 100% xp increase…
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If you want to experience low level content, in a more meaningful way, you can use the “party sync” button in your quest log to lower your level to whatever bracket the lowest party member is in. If they are below level 60, you will be lowered to 60 as well, and can quest in a scaled to 60 world. Don’t quote me on this, but I believe you can party with a trial account to achieve this. So for solo world questing, if you have a second computer, or a computer powerful enough to run two copies of wow simultaneously, you can party with your free trial account to stay in the level 60 zones pretty much as long as you like. Just make sure the starter account doesn’t go offline, or you’ll be returned to your real level.
there are experience turn-off NPCs in Stormwind and Orgimmar, I believe the alliance one is in the war planning room of the keep stealthed? not sure about the orgrimmar one. it would be nice if they would take a page from everquest 2 and just have a button on the UI to click to turn off xp gain.
Note: XP locking puts you in a different, separate PVP queue last I heard so you can’t play PVP with non-locked people.
just play the game, have fun and stop over analyzing everything.
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Yes, but the OP is complaining about outleveling an entire xpac (in this specific case, the cata rework of 1-60). Level scaling never did anything to help this.
@OP: The leveling rework coming in 9.0 is supposed to fix this. I have my doubts, but we’ll see I suppose.
All level scaling did was make it so you wouldn’t outlevel a zone before completing the story lf the zone.
It was never designed for outleveling the whole expansion.
OP just needs to be stronger. Needing help coping with a trivial thing in a video game is the larger issue at hand.
The leveling experience in retail is trash. You’re not going to get to experience every expansion, but you can always take up classic where gaining levels actually matter and isn’t just an annoyance you do before you get to the end game.
id like to necro the crud out of this just to say that most people leveling in classic after the initial push to 60 are afking in dungeons while 60s solo it classic gaining levels never mattered except the first few weeks