So I am having the most fun since I started playing in TBC. The level 25 cap has been awesome and has given a fresh look on the game for me. I saw the road map blizz put out and it says winter for lvl 40. So I figure middle of January or maybe beginning of February. I dont think I would say 25 was too fast if this was the case, probably the perfect amount of time to be honest.
I gotta say I think level 40 will be the most fun phase this season. Better than 50, better than 60. Classes will have their main ticket talents and abilities to help them shine. Its going to be awesome.
I personally would like the lvl 40 phase to be a little longer. Like 3 or 4 months maybe.
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We can only pray the first phase is only lasting as long as it is due to the holidays.
Anything more than 6 weeks is excessive, and 3-4 months is genuinely an absurd request.
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Why is it absurd? Were not racing to max level here, just having fun.
At 40 we get many tools that make our classes great. It would be perfect to stay at for a bit.
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I don’t feel like it’s an unhealthy request. There are multitudes of people that are casual players and just don’t have time to reach end phase content so early on. This will also allow people to try out different classes more frequently. The level pacing for 26-40 will be much longer anyways so it just makes sense to have more time to play it.
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be prepared to be let down then, we wont be 60 until late summer 2024, or 8-9 months from now. Thats 3 months per phase.
IMO level 40 should be a lengthy duration, it will be the most fun phase. STV, end talents, not too strong yet. it will be insanely fun.
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Most people don’t find sitting in a content phase for 4 months fun, and as enjoyable as SoD has proved to be each phase is unlikely to provide even as much content as your average raid tier.
It is. It’s detached from reality to think otherwise.
There’s a minority of players who need more than 6 weeks. Even when Blizzard commented that not even 50% of players had reached level 25 by the end of week two, it was only barely more than 50% and that figure is absolutely including a ton of people that would never reach 25 because they had or would quit.
It is a significant trend in the gaming industry that a ton of people don’t even start games they buy, and then a ton of the people who start games don’t play more than a bit, and ultimately it’s only a very small percentage that actually complete the game. If 48% of accounts that had created a character in SoD had a level 25 character by the end of week two, then it is overwhelmingly likely that the reality is a significant majority of the accounts that would ever have a 25 already had one.
With everyone effectively twinking themselves at each cap, I doubt even the longer leveling phases will necessitate more than 2-3 weeks for the majority to hit the new cap, and we don’t need multiple months of running raids that reset every three days. 2-3 weeks for leveling and 3-4 weeks for capped activities is far more than sufficient.
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Doubtful. Blizzard isn’t going to nuke their engagement on purpose like that. Even the highly lauded and anticipated Ulduar left an incredibly sour taste in people’s mouths due to its run time. The only reason they would have each phase last 3 months is if they needed that time for development.
Hopefully they didn’t plan that poorly, because we actually do end up having 3 month phases the game is going to bleed players.
People perceive the experience differently and derive fun from the game in different ways. This phase, 25 is the max level, and plenty of people had fun racing to it. Then racing for exalted in wsg. Racing for BiS. That’s fine. Others can take it slow. But many people will be happy to see the next race come quicker. The way you enjoy this isn’t an objective way to enjoy it. It’s how you enjoy it, yourself. And that’s fine.
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Your opinions are valid, as are mine when I say I would rather enjoy a more lengthy level-gated experience. The reason I was roped into Season of Discovery was because of the slow pacing, the not needing feel like I’m always playing catch up. I can level alts this way and have a good time doing so as there are other people also leveling with me, being sociable.
I don’t know what Blizzard plans to do though.
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IDK about that. There is tonns of things to do, just not all of it gets you better gear. Some things are just fun for the sake of doing them.
Look at GW2. There is 0 gear treadmill…and its still an insanely popular and good game. Most people can focus on just getting better on their class instead of always chasing the next piece of gear.
Anyways, im just trying to say there lots of things to do at level 25 or 40 that can still be fun to just do, even though your not progressing your gear.
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Longer phases means more people complaining and wanting balance changes. I think the current pace of 2-3 months is perfect. The quicker we get to 60, in a decent pace, the faster everything can be balanced for endgame instead of wacky nerfs/buffs when we arent even max level
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You can play the gear treadmill on Retail right now 
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It’s not about what I want personally. It’s about what’s best for the game and what services the majority of players.
Are you saying you can’t level alts unless it takes us an entire year to unlock level 60?
I imagine you are almost exclusively referring to things which are not specific to Season of Discovery. That’s not “things to do” when most people playing SoD have already done everything you might be referring to a hundred times, and have further done it recently. Not to mention the self-centered gall to tell the average player (who is playing WoW for combat purposes, largely) to do, what, the stupid fishing tournament? I’m a big fan of self-directed gameplay, but “Get every faction to Exalted!11!!” is not content; it’s mindless grinding.
Phase 2’s content is whatever is specific to the season. No more and no less. There’s a marginal amount of claim to old content which can be interacted with in meaningfully novel ways, but most of the base content is such a snoozefest that it doesn’t really change anything to have new abilities. Running an unmodified RFD with new abilities is going to be 99% the same experience as without them.
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I was thinking more just hanging out with friends doing world pvp or farming for gold or helping them run dungeons for their alt…not mindless rep grinds or fishing tournys.
Wasn’t aware that anything you listed required sitting at a level cap for months and months.
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Idk why you’re arguing. They’ve released their 2024 classic road map. It’s available to see.
Probably just get over it? Idk
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I just want to get to where ranking gives gear that’s worth while.
Its been a blast at 25 and I feel like when this season is over and all our characters get deleted(or w/e blizz decides to do with them). People are going to look back the say the level 40 cap was probably the best level band and has great memories.
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What’s that line from Pirates of the Caribbean about guidelines and not rules? That’s how roadmaps work too. I know they’re fairly new in WoW, but expecting them to be adhered to definitively always leads to disappointment.
If the next phase releases in mid-January you could have 6-8 week phases and have level 60 available sometime in May, which is close enough to Summer.
LOL bro. Not a chance in hell.
Sorry to say but if that’s your expectation than SoD really ain’t for you man.
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