But why? There will be a significant amount of smurfs by then considering the large downtime between BG patches. It’s going to be infested with them. Getting stun locked to death by rogue constantly sounds fun.
Don’t you get experience for doing the rep-quest for the BGs? As I recall, I generally leveled the last couple levels of each bracket this way (on this character).
Hmmmm I think for the first quest, but I’m not sure about repeating the quests. I want to say it’s significantly smaller however, I honestly don’t recall.
it could also be that you know your character is not going to be permanent so why even bother the grind. Also, pservers can be dead so its not a real experience.
Wait until classic is released
No one knows. Just try the game when it comes out and find out.
I never found lvling in Vanilla boring; frustrating, yes, boring, no.
I enjoyed lvling mining and blacksmithing and the secondary professions while questing.
I recall lvling myself right out of Band-Aids in First Aid.
My frustration came from getting good gear—especially a decent shield—and, as the Brady guide to Vanilla warned me: “as a Warrior you need everything”.
Pservers have a lot of problems that can break immersion. High ping for NA players, bots, non-english speakers, pay 2 win features, and bad scripting for example. There’s also the elephant in the room that nothing you do in a private server really matters. With Blizzard at least you have the assurance that the game won’t shut down randomly one day.
I got a Warrior to 52 on Northdale, but I don’t think the server community was all that great for lower levels. Either you pick the underpopulated server and there is just nobody, or you pick the overpopulated server and there’s so many people it never feels like you never really get to know anybody.
Which I find that unless I’m in a pretty specific mood, playing solo just isn’t nearly as good as playing with people in a game like WoW. Even if it’s just to chat with them as you grind out quests/mobs.
I haven’t been super bored, enjoyed the pace and community while out leveling… but have deliberately only gotten to around 20 or so on a couple of classes. I don’t want to burn out practicing, but did want to get enough of a feel for what I’d like to do come launch day. I expect the excitement of launch will far outpace late-joining a soon-to-die private server that’s well established.
I had the exact opposite reaction you did… I tried a private server… instant addiction… got to around level 48… and I started to dread that this character was going away and I don’t want to invest too much into it… so it made me stop.
I’m on Northdale and getting close to 60. Rumor has it the server may swap to tbc when classic releases. That alone is enough motivation to keep pushing, but I like the idea of practicing for when classic comes. Starting fresh on a new server is a lot different than mailing everything you need from your main, so running through the process is beneficial. It’s a lot of fun imo.
Oh those rose-tinted glasses. Leveling is a grind and why I laugh when people even imply that Classic will overtake Retail. Many will get bored after a month, and leave. Many will also stay, those who know that it is a real grind to 60.
Remember the goal you’re working toward, it’s how I leveled my alts when I was feeling like the level 38 burn out was in full swing.
With that said, maybe you should just wait on actual classic, the investment of time is truly a real thing and it forms a bond somehow.
This is why players keep playing modern WoW all these years later; they’re legitimately invested.
It is almost safe to say you will not like Classic. Most that are truly looking forward to Classic game play know that reaching level 60 is not going to be as fast as retail. From talking to others who are interested in Classic there was a common thought. That thought is that people are looking forward to the journey, meeting and socializing with people like themselves. Retail for the most part these days is all about reaching max level in everything, lfg, lfr and that go go go fast and furious play style.
That does sound more like a private server thing to me, but we really have no way of knowing until we’re playing WOW Classic how the world environment will play out. Presumably you’ll be starting at release, so you will get the progression flow that you can be part of and that is more exciting for you.
I can only speak for myself, and I have no plans to rush anything, I plan to be out in the world doing things all the time. (Of course, mostly PvE realms, so wPvP is a choice usually in specific locations.)
Also, I didn’t start vanilla until June 2006, with the release of Naxx, but I never felt like the world was that empty or like I was left behind. I think that’s because there was a pretty constant influx of new players, so there were always people leveling - and there’s no way to know what the influx will be like with WOW Classic. ![:crossed_fingers:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/crossed_fingers.png?v=6" ":crossed_fingers:")
I like to set many goals, that way I’m constantly rewarded
If actual Classic does not work for you when it releases, might be time to move on.
I hope it does. I love the warcraft universe, its characters and lore ( Pre cata)
(Lots in the thread already so maybe I am repeating)
Finding an active leveling guild might make a major positive difference.
Find someone to level up with. Like a friend for example. Don’t you have some former guildies you are still in contact with or something? Perhaps join some of the discord communities that is popping up, and arrange one or two leveling buddies if out of rl friends for WoW? Nothing is more boring in a MMO, than when the world feels empty.
Your experience on a P-server that is at a late stage, I think is typically devoid of low level players. They don’t roll as many alt’s, because the servers can be closed anytime, or they know they will reroll on the next fresh server anyways. Come Classic, people will roll more alts, because they are everything that p-servers are not.