I’m leveling a character and I’ve been playing in Outland. I started off in Hellfire, then went to Terrokar Forest… hanging out in Shattrath right now. I haven’t run into anybody in the last eight levels. It’s like I’m playing a single-player game.
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You should put on Warmode; I bet some Horde comes to gank you, then camps you. It will seem like you have company.
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I’ve had warmode on the entire time.
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I think most people opt to avoid Outland. It’s design is pretty oudated, makes it kind of inefficient.
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Because you are. WoW doesn’t really fit the typical mmorpg game anymore, WoW is more fitting to a lobby game with tons of single player content. There isn’t really a reason to leave a major city except to help summon every now and then. Guilds and circles of friends who run content together are for fools.
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I’m only level 42 and i have noticed the same thing, warmode on also - literally nobody in gadgetzan area and same with Wetlands - I’m taking my time w/ this character and reading the story lines/doing all the quests, but seriously nobody at all maybe 10 at most while questing all the way to current level
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With the zone scaling most players just opt out of Outland and head straight to Northrend. Whole expansion erased once you hit 60.
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Two things:
1.) Are you in WM? Most people level in WM for the extra %xp.
2.) Most people skip BC now and go straight to Northrend so they can have continuity from 58-80 instead of doing 58-70 in BC and 70-80 in Northrend.
This is because Azeroth Autopilot (AAP) does not use those zones. Most people leveling alts right now use an Addon or some kind of external advice for moving through the old content. AAP is the most popular one, and it doesn’t take you to Tanaris or Wetlands for leveling. At least…it didn’t send me there on any of mine.
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This isn’t really too true. I avoid it because alliance tend to camp and then kill the questgivers
TURN WARMODE OFF. Yes, most, 70+% i believe, players were on pve servers . So most likely they have warmode off. Want real pvp, turn warmode off but flag your self for pvp, youll get alot of unexpecting players who roam into the wrong zone.
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Like others have said, Outland is now very outdated compared to the rest of the game. It’s the oldest content still left from when it was a relevant expansion, and it shows. I leveled my dark iron through Outland just to change it up from Northrend and I honestly can say I don’t think I’ll ever go back again.
I personally think Northrend is boring no matter which of the two beginning zones you start in, but it easily picks up once you can choose from the rest of them.
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Could be a server thing - and the fact that outland gets avoided like the plague by A LOT of players. Plus there has been a drop in active players so if you are on a med-low server, it’ll be even worse and more empty.
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Can’t even get a group to do elites in zuldazar.
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most people skip outland for Northrend so…
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I see a few players in Outland on Wrymrest Accord, but that’s one of the more active servers.
A lot of people are skipping questing content and just leveling through dungeons. That’s a big reason why low level zones are empty.
Well, that was more the case prior to the squish in March 2018 when leveling through dungeons gained you like 2 levels per run.
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It depends on the zone (at least in my experience). The first zone of Outland typically has people playing and ganking.
The others not so much.
Same goes for Northrend. The first two starting zones have people playing and the rest have less (except the dragonblight cause of the portal). Same goes for Pandaria.
OP is in Terrokar and I didn’t see anyone out else out there for hours.
Then I went to Scholazar and didn’t see anyone there for hours.
You got a misshaped head.
And the upcoming change which limits XP per dungeon to 2500. Much better questing IMHO
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