[Cata] Removing or Speeding Up Outland/Northrend leveling

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Thoughts on this? Because let’s be real, Outland/Northrend are two continents which will remain stuck in the past within Cata. In addition to that, it serves as a significant “hole” in the story behind character leveling, because first you level from 1-60 dealing with the effects of Deathwing, then suddenly go back in time ~4 years to the Burning Crusade, then after that you travel forwards ~2 years to the War on the Lich King, finally ending with 80-85 being against Deathwing once more.

This topic is tricky, since just adding a level 60-80 boost by talking to an NPC seems so unnatural. I’d support a Joyous Journeys-esque buff that gets applied to Outland/Northrend exclusively though.

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Isn’t there a 50% or 100% permanent XP buff? That’s in addition to heirlooms, and already faster leveling compared to Classic. And there’s a level 80 boost that you can buy with the Cata pack.

My thoughts are that no matter how much is given people will always ask for more. Retail has more. Cata is Classic? Well…

Is it tricky?

:woman_shrugging:

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Was never truly made clear if it would continue into Cata.

I made this thread in concerns of a natural, well-threaded story told with leveling. It is clear that the majority of Cata’s quests serve to do just that, to tell a clear story, especially regarding zones such as Stonetalon Mountains. To just buy a boost to 80 is to just jump over all of that, not fully addressing the fact that the Lich King isn’t active in Northrend anymore, or that the Burning Legion isn’t at its full might as we saw in Burning Crusade anymore.

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Blizzard said that they will expedite levelling speed in Cata for after you hit lefel 60.

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you want to skip Vashir and Undum and Deepholme? some of the best leveling zones in the game?

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It breaks the flow too, so I would love to just skip the HellFire Peniula and the Borean Tundra.

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Thank you. In my book, this works.

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In cata u can go from 70 to 80 in like 2 zones. Especially with heirlooms and if they keep the exp buff it will literally require howling or borean and another zone to get to 80.

You can already get to 75 just from doing howling and borean.

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I dont understand this take… ppl keep saying “with heirlooms” … the point isnt necessarily for players with full heirlooms… its to give the game any chance of breathing new blood into the game… forcing new players to do the AWFUL TBC and WOTLK leveling grind in Cata is terrible.

60-80 should take like 4 hours for a new player. Just hand them levels it doesnt matter. get players to cata as fast as possible.

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One of the most beautiful zones in the game (imo). Love that place.

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Realistically, Joyous Journeys should made to be permanent for 1-80.

They already nerfed 1-60 exp - it flies and with Cata quests go inside the dungeons so you auto get all the quest exp too.

Same for the Outland/Northrend dungeons - each dungeon gets quests inside the dungeon. No more pre-reqs with Cata release.

On top of some level 85 heirlooms its going to be really fast.

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They will include a boost.