Most of the starting zones I don’t even have to think about. Its automatic. go here, here, here, and here, have Netflix open on the other monitor, half pay attention, next thing you know you are max.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like the new starter zone a lot. It is fantastic at handholding new players and getting them up to speed. It was a brilliant starter zone for that. It also gave races with godawful starter zones (cough, pandas, goblins, worgen, cough) a place that doesn’t feel AS bad.
As an old person that is set in his ways, yells at clouds, shouts at kids on his lawn, (insert meme here) I feel like I can just blow through the Cata redesigned starter areas a lot faster than exiles. But like I said, I really do appreciate exiles reach for what it does for new players and that definitely needed a revamp, and I appreciate what they did and how they implemented it. But I don’t see myself going through it more than a couple times for alts.
What about you guys? Now that you have had a chance to tool around with it a few times which starting experience are you going with on future alts?
I think exiles will probably remain the starting zone for most of my alts.
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For me starting a new alt is always a trip down the nostalgia lane, so I tend to create humans because of Elwynn Forest. I might try the Exiles one time to see what’s it about.
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Definitely enjoyed it with my 2 Worgen alts that ran through it. (Thank you, Blizzard for allowing vet players to turn off those tutorials.) Especially the class special quests. They were a nice touch. I have a couple friends that might want to pick up WoW and it will be nice to have that for them.
I also liked it for something different to do. I foresee most of my future alts, that have that as a choice, choosing it.
i did starting zone few times. It’s quick, efficient and has absolutely no soul, it’s just a tutorial. No lore, no nothing.
I’d probably will never touch it again and level alts in real quest zones (i mean, i have 13 alts, one for each class and two warriors, will i even make new alts).
I actually haven’t run the “legacy” versions of starting zones yet since Exile’s Reach opened. I’ll probably give them a whirl at some point, because why not?
There’s new xmog in the new starter area. I’ll probably create a bunch of new characters, get them through the dungeon, and ignore them.
I liked it well enough. It’s a nice alternative for races with garbage starting areas as was pointed out.
At this point though I don’t know that I’ll create many more characters so while I thought it was fine it really doesn’t matter to me I guess.
I have been through Nelf and Belf starting zones so many times I hate them. I can zone out and just go, but I hate them.
I’m not a fan of orc, troll, dwarf, gnome, or human areas. Goblin was fun the first time. Worgen was fun the first time, space goat is nice aesthetically.
I guess if I had to pick a zone, cause apparently I dislike them all would be exiles reach.
It’s short and to the point. You get decent enough gear coming out of there
I’ve made like 4 characters since pre-patch and all have gone through Exile’s Reach because it is a nice change in pace. That being said, if I make more characters at some point, I will probably alternate what I do.
Even though they haven’t aged the best, there’s a certain charm to collecting cactus apples, talking to the Ishnu’alah guy, and killing Kobolds.
Exile’s Reach is good. The only problem I have with it is some of the prompts will not go away. Such as “put x ability on bars”…yeah I’ve already done that stop telling me now.
Other than that I like Exile’s Reach pretty good.
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Panda, Goblin, Worgen? Exiles.
Anything else? Default.
Why? I may be sick and tired of doing the same zones since the beginning of time but they’re so automatic. I’ve done Exiles once for horde, and will probably do it for Alliance, but the pacing is overall slower than if you were to do the normal starting zones imo. Maybe this opinion will change, at least for alliance-side.
This was also my experience and it made it less enjoyable. As a veteran, this kind of stuff is annoying. As a newbie, please tell people how to do things so they don’t get frustrated.
I don’t mind the game telling me once to do it but when the prompts will not go away no matter what until you leave the island then it’s a problem.
For sure, especially cause you spend an hour+ in the zone easily. I had no issue with it telling me what to do - kindof like a quest - but the fact it just endlessly stayed there… no thanks. You can /reload to fix it though which was really nice. I found that out after I completed it.
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Goblins and Worgen got the best starting zones in the game, what are you smoking lol
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There are some racial starting zones that I’ve done many, many times. I’ve been playing since vanilla and have done for instance the undead one probably close to 100 times.
I did just come back from an 8 year break, and my plan is to level one of each spec. In this case, i may use exile’s reach to avoid starting zones that i have recently done.
For example, i made a NE monk and played through teldrassil. I’ll also be making a NE druid, and NE hunter (maybe). I likely will choose exile’s for one of those.
For races I’ve never played though, racial starting zones only.
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They’re really good as isolated content, but last time I went through a Goblin zone (like a month ago) it felt like it took ages. I’m not a fan of it the pacing. The storyline? Awesome. Some of the unique quests? Even better. The fact I ask myself ‘is it over yet’ and find out I have at least 80 quests left? It’s just not for me, man. Worgen story on the other hand is great.
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like every starter zone it’ll get old quickly, especially the parts where you’re learning to use dots (seriously who needs to be told how a dot works after reading the tooltip)
Starting zones in general do a poor job at teaching mechanics, if you’re not learning to interrupt, cc and avoid damage with a risk of consequence then it is a disservice to the community later on.
Exile’s Reach, it’s straightforward and balanced.
I like Exiles’ Reach. That’ll be my go to for all alts.