everyone keeps saying this an alt friendly expansion…
How? Fate leveling is trash, its a failed attempt at diablo3 adventure mode which is an actual preferable way to level vs playing the actual story.
No “ive heard this story before” skip moments for the many, many, TOO MANY waiting sequences this expansion.
Covenants = garbage. So theres 4 armor classes in the game, 4 covenants in the game. So in order to get all the covenant cosmetics you need to grind out renown on 16 characters!
At least with legion theres only 12 classes in the game though unlocking the class hall and appearances was also still work not nearly as much as this expansion is turning out to be.
I guess i dont have a right to an opinion though since i am one of the rare few who actually love the garrison and thought WoD was a better expansion than legion, bfa, and sl. WoD just needs 1 good patch and it would far surpass all this. Imagine being able to dec out our garrisons to look like our covenant theme? Cosmetic unlocks were the one thing WoD needed. But even blizzarded hated WoD so much they burned it to the ground when legion prepatch dropped to make sure no one would ever want to play there
It’s probably alt friendly if you buy the level boost, otherwise it’s a pain to level alts, specially through threads of fate which is more tedious and slow than swiming through ooblek.
As a father of 3 kids with 2 full time jobs, i’ve managed to level a couple alts to 60 already. Ion and the Dev team have listened to a lot of player feedback about this, and they made it easier than ever with Fate system or even by going through the story mission again which isn’t that long. Shadowlands is easily the best alt friendly expansion out!
It seems more alt friendly in that there is less stuff to grind out every week to stay on top of of progression. Run Torghast and get 1000 anima and that’s the only things you really need to do.
and by “seems more alt friendly” I really mean more friendly than just the last couple of expansions. Game was more alt friendly back in WotLK than it is today.
I’ve got two alts that are fair easy to keep up. Probably considered alt friendly cause of how easy it is to catch up on renown/shared maw/torghast upgrades.
I think the only time gate are torghast clearing itself weekly for legendary.
I agree with most of what you wrote, OP. I’m disappointed with the way threads of fate leveling is shaping up to be. I’ve leveled two alts using that method and it was way, way, slower than doing the campaign. I leveled my main in like 12-15 hours using the campaign, but I can’t even measure how many hours it took my alts to level by doing the threads of fate. Blizz needs to up the bonus quests or the quests you level with to give more xp.
Also, I had heard that the upgrades in the Maw would affect all characters in the Maw AND Torghast, but it seems like the upgrades I buy only affect Torghast. So now I feel like I need to have all my alts running the Maw to get rep and buy the Maw upgrades to even make it tolerable to be in there.
I’m hoping the expansion will become more alt-friendly as we go.
As a father of 7 with 2 full time jobs and a part time job, and a single mother to 3 with 2 part time jobs in my other life, I have successfully leveled all 50 of my alts to 60 through threads of fate. I reccomend getting good at the game.
Its semi alt friendly if you only do your dailies with the covenant on your alts . My main is ilvl 184 , this guy is pretty close to him , but I have been switching classes . I do the covenant story on my necro shaman and a mythic for the vault and log off . Instead of playing my monk 7 days a week I play him 6 and spend the other day doing my shaman chores . I assume if I had more alts I’d do the same. Eventually though , my monk is gonna severely outgear my alts. Its no big deal right now .
“bro you can get renown with ToF”
yeah?
“yeah, you just have to “fill the bar” to 100%”
the % on those zones are a big joke for 80-87k exp per zone for all the damn time it takes to gather % I would rather get to 60 quicker and dont even bother with such trash.
