Dragonflight speed leveling

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For the longest time now leveling in a new expansion doesn’t really mean anything. It use to be about the journey and exploration but now it’s all about how fast you get leveling out of the way. Most players don’t even read the quests and use add-ons to instantly accept and turn them in.

With the introduction of dragon riding i feel like people will reach max level faster than ever before. Its going to be fun watching people race to max level and will probably do it in a couple hours at most since we will have flying from the start now.

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I’m the opposite. I use an addon to make the quest text not painful to read.

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This has been the case for all recent expansions. You have the hardcore sweaties that reach max level in a day.

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Haven’t since BC :muscle: If someone would have told me about QuestHelper the day I started playing I never would have read 1 quest :laughing:

Blizz says they want Dragonflight to take “a bit longer” than Shadowlands leveling.

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I like the idea of flying on release too. Can you get it while leveling? Or will you have to be 70?

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Now, are they talking ‘at launch’ SL leveling or ‘current’ SL leveling?

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From the looks of it you’ll unlock dragon riding in the beginning of the first zone and get a new dragon every zone, leveling up dragon riding and getting new abilities as you progress through the campaign. It’s also sounding like the dragons with the abilities are faster than the normal 310 flying we have everywhere else. Looks… interesting.

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This is the remark I’m going off of

  • Leveling time should be a little longer than Shadowlands, but not too much longer.

from https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/10709-Dragonflight-Alpha-Developer-Interviews?, there’s a video attached so there might be some more context but I didn’t watch it so idk.

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When Blizzard puts the majority of content at endgame, this is what happens.

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Hows that?

Im almost done with Lore Master and im not sure they do. Some of these quests are amazing. The quests just need to be voice acted.

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From Cataclysm or Mists of Pandaria onward, Blizzard definitely puts the majority of content at the maximum level.

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I am doubtful that will happen - blizzard can easily adjust things to make it take a week to level up if they wish. They look at how fast people level up in alpha and beta and just adjust the amount of xp you get from quests or the amounts of experience you need for each level.

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I’m not hardcore or sweaty, I just hate leveling and realize that modern wow design means the game doesn’t start until max level.

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Leveling is a means to an end… which is getting to max level so I can start doing max level content such as raiding and mythic dungeons. I like those 2 activities… and questing can go screw itself!

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Immersion addon. Bigger text. Shows the quest NPC with talking animations. Read the text one or two sentences at a time.

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Leveling has always meant something to some people. Not everyone cares about end game.

Let’s not make up numbers, please.

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another chargestun thread that gets bites off rip
amazing

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You need to remember that the zones are designed with dragonflying in mind. So I don’t know how much of a shortcut it’ll actually be. Rather, I think it’s going to be prove to be a distraction, potential source of frustration, and very likely cause of ending up off the optimal path, for many people.

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lol…raiders, some anyway, are whining about having to do side quests to get to max.
Why even play the game at that rate?
If you made them wait any longer their collective corks would all pop in tandem like dominoes falling, lmao.

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I actually got to the point on beta where you unlock Dragon Riding and do the tutorials, I guarantee people will be super frustrated with Dragon Riding :laughing:
It’s “flying” but it’s not the flying we have now, it’s weird and involved and has a learning curve it isn’t just mount up and go.

Personally I’m happy about the way Blizz developed the quests. Because you can’t progress unless you do those quests because they are part of the main storyline and the way they are setup lends itself to causing people to waste a lot of time running. Which means there will be less people in my way while questing :rofl:

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