Chromie Time, All the Time!

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Chromie Time needs to be a permanent game feature, not something that only exists for leveling a character and locks you out once you hit the level threshold.

I’m a returning player, I left some time ago, around BFA. I came back with the announcement of dragonflight, created a new character, and was pleasantly surprised to see the options that chromie time offered.

Initially as I was leveling, before I knew what chromie time was, I began seeing the level ranges for all the zones and was disappointed that I would fairly quickly out level so much content. Once I discovered chromie time I felt relieved.

I kept praising blizzard, to myself, at how well they did chromie time and how it made past content more relevant to the player. It restored some previously lost faith I had in blizzard. I thought, wow, they did this so well, they’re keeping their older zones and content relevant, they are moving in the right direction.

Eventually I hit 59 and low and behold, I received a message that chromie time was going to “run out”. Thus began the google searches etc. and I realized the truth. Blizzard didn’t do an amazing job. They came so close but for whatever reason, decided to rip the rug out from underneath you and pretend like whatever you were experiencing never happened and not to be concerned about it.

I wanted to make a post advocating for chromie time to become a permanent feature because it is an amazing feature.

While I very much enjoy chromie time, I also see the benefit of being a much higher level so you can quickly complete areas you may be not as fond of or wish to complete quickly so having a toggle to turn on/off the scaling is great, I just think that scaling should always be available.

Also, I’d like to see the scaling to all the way to max level. I realize blizzard wants everyone to experience dragonflight so maybe only allow up to level 70 scaling once an account has reached dragonflight or completed a specific achievement.

Regardless, I see no reason to prevent players from utilizing chromie time once they’ve hit level 60.

It was so disappointing to come to the realization that I would be locked out of chromie time once I hit 60. Blizzard came so close to implementing a worthwhile system that can be enjoyed by players and make their older content more relevant only to turn around and place a dumb restriction on it, locking the player out of it forever. What a missed opportunity that was.

So please blizzard, make chromie time “all the time”, make it a permanent feature that players of any level can utilize if they so choose. Also, like I said before, I would love to see up to max level scaling with chromie time, it can obviously be done, no reason to stop at 60. At the very least though, just make chromie time accessible at all levels.

Thanks

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Festivus! It’s for the rest of us :heart:

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I agree with this. I’d like to have the option of doing previous expansions without one-shotting everything. But make it optional! Otherwise people would complain to no end, lol.

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The funny thing is, it’s already a built in optional feature… it just gets… removed? like ok?

Blizz: “We see you were having fun, experiencing some nostalgia, exploring everything that WOW has to offer; Enough of that! Locked out forever! Never speak of this, it never happened. Now hop on this dragon!”

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I think it has to do with their design philosophy and overall aversion to making evergreen content. Blizzard is (was?) the kind of developer who would grab a virtual sledgehammer and demolish everything in the past expansion in order to funnel people into the new one.

Why that is the case is beyond me. I understand the desire of wanting to show people what’s new and shiny, as well as not making them feel they have to go through near two decades of content in order to “catch up”. They cranked the lever on the far opposite side of the spectrum though.

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If you have a friend (or an alt account), I think you can use party sync to do zones at their intended levels. Also, level alt characters! WoW is very much designed with multiple characters in mind and they are extremely useful for stuff like farming mounts. While you can only kill Kael’thas (TBC) once per week and Al’ar (awesome looking mount) only has a 2% drop rate, you can farm him weekly per character (and you can have 60 of them).

If you really want to clear an entire xpac of quests on a single character, you can turn off XP at 59.

Edit: I’d also like to add that expanding Chromie time would be really handy for getting Timewalking/Mage Tower BiS. Right now, you have to use party sync to farm out the optimal items due to how ilvl scaling works.

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WOW has never been one of those games though where the player is locked behind a main story quest or can’t proceed onward to the latest expansion until they fully complete all previous content.

Unless something has changed, every time an expansion would come out, you’d get a quest when you logged in, and most people just dropped all previous quests and moved on.

I know though that blizz seems to just want to funnel people into the new expansion and more or less pretend like the rest didn’t happen and while I can see the importance of having players experience the latest and greatest, some people just enjoy the game as a whole and want to play at their own pace or experience different areas.

It seems like blizz is doing a disservice to themselves as well by making previous zones irrelevant, like there is so much content there. It makes more sense to me to have as much meaningful content as possible rather than only 1 or 2 expansions worth.

Regardless, chromie time is an optional thing so it only increases player choice not diminishes it. Anyone who doesn’t care about old content can just carry on but even those who do want to experience the latest and greatest, do they think those people will never want to experience those older zones/areas? Cause that’s basically how they’re designing the game.

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That’s a good question, and I’d love to be a fly on their wall to see what the thought process behind those choices are.

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You’re talking about work arounds for an optional system that has already been implemented.

I know I can play on alts and I have many I plan to do, I also know I can lock my exp, that doesn’t solve the problem though. Why should I have to halt my progression and only play on alts if/when I want to get the most out of older content?

That’s like saying, you can make endless characters and just delete them at 59 and start over. Another valid alternative that would allow the player to experience those zones with scaling but it doesn’t really solve the problem.

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I’ve said this since Chromie was released. Ultimately quit because I was forced into SL.

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Is the TLDR that you just want Chromie time to be available all the way to level cap?

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The TLDR is summed up in the first sentence. I did add later on that scaling to 70 would be nice.

It sounds like you already know the TLDR. Are you simply trying to verify your reading comprehension? Yes, that sounds about right. All the way to level cap would be icing on the cake but yeah.

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You can turn off your experance gain at will, or 10 gold each way.
You can do this as many times as you want to.
At cap you can group up with a friend and sink to their level as well.
Thus Cromie all the time for you.
Good luck…have fun.

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Completely agree, I want to experience old storylines I’ve missed without everything dying the moment I glance at them. Doesn’t even have to be tuned for current-expansion difficulty, just… let it take more than one hit to kill things, you know?

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I didn’t understand what you meant by making Chromie time “permanent”, but I thought implied Chromie time was being removed from the game.

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It’s strange how selective your reading was. I summed up what I meant about permanent in the first sentence. Yet you read far enough to know that I wanted scaling up to level cap.

I’m not sure how you read but it might have been easier to simply start from the top and move left to right downward.

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I don’t understand the passive aggressiveness, as I was just asking for some confirmation on what exactly it was you wanted changed about Chromie time.

But suit yourself.

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If you couldn’t understand what I meant by reading my post I don’t think there’s much I could do to help you and I don’t think there’s much you could do to help me.

Have a nice day

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There is no good reason and anyone disagreeing is lying to themselves.
We can ‘cheat’ the system with Party Sync anyway…so just let us use CT and be done with it.

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I also like going back to old content but hate one shotting an entire zone with a sneeze.

So I have a character level locked at 57 and in Chromie Time. The entire world every expansion except DF and some “end game “ stuff in Systemlands (but who cares about SL) is open to him. I just switch timelines depending on what dungeons I feel like random queuing for.

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