I’ve leveled every AR Horde side since the change and currently leveling all the Alliance AR. Get over yourself.
And I’m sure all the people that stayed agreed with me. Look, I can make up statistics too. People leave for any number of stupid reasons. People leave because their Tanaris portal was gone for a week or two. People leave because their water strider mount can’t walk on water anymore. No one cares why people leave. Your opinion isn’t any more valid than mine and in this topic alone there’s plenty of people that agree with my opinion and disagree with yours (and vice versa) so get over yourself.
Scaling is here to stay and it’s amazing. If you don’t like it, leave.
You get to see more of the zones story with scaling as you aren’t forced to leave. How is that having less story than the previous alternative? The gear thing has nothing to do with scaling, that’s on current gear design. And it’s not that bad but I do miss a lot of the more unique items from the past.
The 120 next to my character is an illusion, of course I haven’t played. Gear score, Ilevel it’s all the same to me, a number placed on what you wear for armor. It is usually required to be a certain level to be invited into things, along with Raider IO,
I respectfully disagree with you, OP. I love that scaling now exists. Like others have stated before me, it has made the zones relevant again. And, I like that I’m not stuck in a linear progression for the game, I have many different choices now. Please Blizzard, don’t get rid of scaling.
Not only will they not get rid of scaling, it’s only going to get worse. Next expansion level cap 80, level squishing, scaling madness, etc. Thank god for Classic where something makes sense. Too many changes, temporary systems, stat sticks that get thrown in the trash every 18 months, I can’t stand it. Maybe this works on a 20 year old with no gaming context but most WoW players are now 30, 35+ and we’ve been through this too many times. No longer interested in temporary systems, mystique gear, HoA, grinding artifact power, whatever they want to call it. Just call it “hamster wheel 3” and “hamster wheel 4” and be done with it.
I personally love the scaling, my issues with leveling alts are … other things, but I do wish there were some way for people to turn it off if they really wanted.
It’s mostly a convenience feature, and allows you a lot more choice as to where to go, but if people want to go ahead without that convenience, why not let them?
I was thinking something was odd there a few days ago.
Was in the hood for the fire fighting thing, for some strange reason I clicked on normal quest giver on my 50 VE rouge and was going when the hell did these quests give out the usual rate for a 50?
Some decent quest density there so I may run tis area out. I like high density areas on my 50-60 run just to kill this crap off with extreme prejudice.
Also never saw the but the quests grey out at some level angle some have.
Want to see the story? run them as greys. There are 2 ways to see all story while Current (an in yellow and full xp) for a char.
turn off xp
have alt addiction. I try to run new areas on alts. Like I never really ran dwarf part. So that is where a leveling VE Rogue started out. Maybe its me, I left going really didn’t miss much here.
Not all bad, most of it if you want to RP not in the scope of grrrrr horde its a good area. You spend most of your time killing nothing horde related. Did get confused as to why we like killing dark iron so much.
So for lolz if I ever run a dark iron I may come back. Dark iron killing dark iron might be interesting?
Scaling removes the point to leveling. It also doesnt allow you the opportunity to increase your ability against a mob or area you are having issue with. It seems every solution blizz has it creates 2 or more problems
I like scaling for the reasons listed by others: it doesn’t dis-incentivize me from finishing up in a zone. And at lower levels, there are still zones you shouldn’t be adventuring in.
Once again, another thread where the personal RPGers who want to feel stronger, and the quest RPGers, who want an excuse to hang around and complete the quest line in a zone are at conflict.
The idea that scaling doesn’t make you feel stronger as you level up doesn’t hold water since 1-60 is just going from zone to zone fighting progressively stronger bears anyway.
Before scaling, I had to plan my next zone after stepping into a new one when developing alts because it was a matter of time before outleveling it. The scaling system removes that. Unfortunately, leveling has become more of a grind even with XP bonus aids. The stories are good but the quests themselves are not exactly engaging. The removal of scaling will not address that.