That’s not what they’ve said or I’ve implied, it’s the CURRENT content, where the budget and resources is currently being spent, of course they’d want people to play in it.
Okay again with this, you’re over-villainizing Blizzard and painting this as something evil and vile and not just… annoying.
You’re not being forced to do anything in the slightest. Chromie Time is just getting turned off. You don’t have to do SL content at all.
A big degree actually, you’re not permanently locked into SL zones.
Biggest issue a friend and I had with it was when either of us wanted to help the other with things like Ring of Blood, Amphitheater of Anguish or the Cataclysm one. Spam group finder, no groups, fine the other will just bring a max level character and destroy it, oh wait, can’t due to phasing and other weird things.
At a glance I’d disagree with chromie time being a thing in its current form as I don’t like how it phases people out into their own mini phases and makes the world feel even more empty.
However even without that it’d still feel empty with teleporting to dungeon with dungeon finder and several years worth of expansions and zones so it ends up being a moot point.
With the way the game currently is, i would say Chromie time is a good idea and allows us to avoid certain expansions.
Legion scales appropriately to 45 if you are not in chromie time. If you are in chromie time, it will scale until 49. At 50+ you are no longer in chromie time, and at that point the xp drops off dramatically.
All chromie time is the same phase. If you are in Legion chromie time and doing Wrath content, you will see everyone who is in Wrath chromie time while you are in Northrend. What chromie time controls is which dungeons you can have access to by queuing.
There are 4 leveling phases:
normal
normal chromie time
warmode
warmode chromie time
So the addition of chromie time has doubled the number of phases levelers may be in over BfA.
Sub 50’s cannot use the premade tab of the group finder. It is greyed out.
That’s what party sync is for. It will put the high level into the same phase as the low level. However, the high level is sometimes greatly reduced in power compared with elites.
You can turn off Chromie time and just smash though the old quests at a higher level. You can still do the quests with Chromie time turned off. Just turn it off.
I like it turned on because I can choose to level wherever, but I also like being able to turn it off, and then run old dungeons for transmogs and mounts by just blasting through them on a higher level character.
It was intended to allow scaling for quests and things, but it’s somewhat been a hodgepodge mess due to some broken issues. Legion in particular suffers from it with the Legionfall and Artifact weapon quests, as some of the mobs and zones will scale all the way to -60- current content, when Legion is supposed to cap at 45-47.
The phasing mechanics that were used often with Legion / BFA also often has problems where trying to bring another player in (notably one who’s already done the quests) end up locked/phased out from being able to assist, even with the Party Sync turned on.
It’s legitimately frustrating as players who may want to DO that particular expansion are forced on and blocked due to buggy side effects.
I ran into a profession quest in Draenor the other day where my level 44 character not in chromie time was supposed to kill a bunch of mobs to unlock a garrison building, a quest I have done in the past without issue. This should have been easy as she is overleveled, but was actually impossible. I ended up carrying her on my other account.
They should make Chromie-time go all the way to max level once you have a character that has done the current content. The only way to complete any CT zone and keep the challenge level is to hard-lock xp gains so you stop leveling. After my first character I have absolutely zero interest in doing any more shadowlands leveling, so I’m just getting my alts to 50 for the next time-walking. I’ll probably have a couple toons I lock at 49 just so I have something to consistently be able to run older content with and not have to start over. The fact that having to do this is even a thing is asinine.
How they managed to make such a simple concept so convoluted is beyond me.
Chromie Time needs to stay. It allows me to play the old expansions in any order I choose on alts, skipping some entirely. It also allows all of the quest rewards to remain relevant when I want them to as long as I lock my alt’s XP at Level 49. The fact that it allows you to toggle world level scaling (to a degree) is especially welcome.
I enjoy Chromie Time, because it helps keeps the maxed level characters out who can one shot everything that are also doing old content content quests and keep max level characters from griefing and killing NPCs just for kicks and giggles. Max level characters farm for old content mats as well.
It’s alot easier to level without the interruption of max level characters. This barrier serves this purpose, you can choose to be in it or not. Chromie Time is a choice.
My leveling style is Legion, WoD, MoP than BFA to 50.
I’ve never had a problem with Chromie Time, and rather than remove a game mode which provides options, we should be addressing bugs that exist. If you’ve run into problems, provide bug reports and ensure you take screenshots of said bugs when submitting them that way Blizzard has an easier time identifying them.
I’m afraid I can’t really understand this. Chromie time is the fix for these…
If you’re in Chromie time for Legion, they are your level, something that makes levelling far, far faster by smoothing out the level matching per zone. If you’re out of Chromie time for Legion, you go zerg the content with ridiculous item levels.
Are you saying you don’t like that there is little incentive to do them, and little way to get current type XP and rewards while doing them in Chromie time? Well, that’s true of course, because the true item level and difficulty are low since they are old expired expansions.
Nothing can really fix this. When I get into Chromie time and level through xpac now, I outlevel the expansion pack after 2-3 zones in Chromie. In BFA, I only finished two and a half zones before hitting max level. It’s not really Chromie that made questing too efficient.
