Drastically increased xp for older classic games

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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I will try to keep this short even though I have a lot to say.

I want players to be able to play any version of wow they want to from vanilla classic to TBC, wotlk, Cata, etc.

The problem is splitting the player base too much, the solution would be to add drastically increased xp for players who want it, a toggle to turn on regular xp for players who don’t.

Let us easily level up characters so that we aren’t spending hundreds of hours leveling up each character, a lot of people don’t like leveling up, once is fine but after that people are just sick of it, that’s why blizzard can sell character boosts for $80, they know people will pay it to avoid the grinds because it’s not fun for a lot of people. What is fun though is the end game, raids and pvp that’s what makes players put so much time into the grinds so they can get to the end game stuff.

In my opinion once the classic servers are moving on to the next xpac ( like moving from wotlk to cata) the wotlk server should be kept alive but increased the xp rates something like x20 and allow players to play much more casually on the older classic games while maintaining the normal xp rates on the new classic xpac launches.

For players like myself who play classic vanilla, wotlk and retail I just want to be able to play each version of the game and have multiple characters on each version but the grinds make it feel like climbing a mountain. I want to do the end game content really badly but at the same time I don’t have 12 hours a day to play wow, one of the greatest things about retail wow is how little time it takes to go from fresh new character to raiding/pvp and I wish the classic games were more like that because we have done the grinds so many times now that the magic just isn’t there anymore, it feels more like work instead of playing a video game for the fun of it.

I know there will be people complaining in the comments and that’s fine, but another thing I know is that I have multiple friends who want to play wotlk but decided not to because they knew the grind is like climbing a mountain and they aren’t looking for a commitment like that because they have been there done that already but they would love to jump into a raid or pvp if there weren’t so many barriers in place.

Keep wotlk servers alive at minimum blizzard, all that grinding is going to feel like a massive waste of time if everyone is forced to move on to cata. Cata should have servers too but I just think it will be a mistake to not have any wotlk servers for players who aren’t over it yet. I have two characters and would love to have more at some point but it feels like that’s just not going to happen now.

When the classic versions of the game were announced I had this idea of grinding once and having that character forever so I could hop on whenever I felt like it and play and that’s what happened with vanilla classic but when you didn’t give the same option for tbc I knew things were not going to work as I had hoped for.

Thanks for reading, let me know your own thoughts and how you would do it if you had control.

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XP boost to vanilla misses the point of vanilla. XP boost to the expacs is fine.

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Yeah I don’t really mean for vanilla, talking more about the xpacs

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My personal fun comes from leveling up through all of the content in the game. The biggest reason I can’t get into retail is because I can’t experience the older content the way it was designed to be experienced, and I have no interest in simply skipping everything to get to the current content.

That being said… if I was able to get even 1 character through all of the content in a natural way that fulfilled my desire to experience all of this game content, I’d be ok speeding it up for alts.

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I dunno, leveling in retail isn’t so bad. You pretty much go from level 10 to 60 in one expac and then start DF. It’s actually spread pretty well that you can do an entire expacs leveling experience that way. You dont go from say Cata to MOP, you just pick one.

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This is my whole problem… I don’t want to just level. I don’t even care about leveling. I want to experience the game. Last time I gave retail a chance was in Legion, and I level locked every 5-10 levels to get through everything at a level where it was not completely trivial.
If I could play through all of WoW… I would play it. This is still mostly doable on Wrath Classic servers outside of the raids. No point in playing anything beyond that for me.

This is the whole problem with most MMO’s… they push you to skip past the story and the leveling, and just play the latest and greatest thing they developed. A good game needs to care about the whole experience. This is also why Hardcore Classic has been successful. I don’t really care for the hardcore rule, but I like that it forces people to level the way that MMO’s used to want people to level.

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The world scales to your level, so you could do Cata, then go Mop, even though you are level 60, and continue down the path.

I’m doing legion right now, and It has the cutscenes and I had to go get the artifact weapon, and I have to juggle the items you attach to your artifact weapon to increase the iLevel of it.

Well that’s just how the world is, starting in Wrath :3

But I’m not trying to argue your points or invalidate how retail feels. Retail is a mixed bag of experiences and it’s hard to pinpoint why you don’t enjoy something. If you don’t enjoy, you don’t enjoy it. You just know, ya know?

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This is why FFXIV is competing with retail. They understand how to keep content relevant and fun.

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I couldn’t agree more with you Baksura. Although FFXIV has some major drawbacks as well.

I feel like their “job” system takes class balance to an extreme where they kinda get all the classes within a role and looks at them on a spreadsheet with the goal to get all of the classes to perform at the same level using these different gimmicks of each class.

I know all class/role based games do this one some level, but I just really feel it a ton in FFXIV. Maybe that’s the downside of letting one character play every different job.

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totally Agree,

At the very least keep a few Wrath Era realms so people don’t feel like their time is wasted.

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have you tried playing retail?

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i mean, the people that actually never stopped playing wrath have been used to increased exp rates for over a decade, even aside from pservers, people forget OG wrath had RAF with 300% exp gains and grant-a-level.

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that’s what Heirlooms & Joyous Journeys are for

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