Guys calm down! (No Sharding thread)

[Purjery-muradin (Purjery)]

Blizzard knows leveling is not worth experiencing in retail, and has to be sped up to the point you can buy a high lvl character to save yourself the chore.

But in classic? Isn’t the whole premise of it that it’s not a game laid out to be a race to endgame? A game that’s about the community and it’s journey first and foremost? A game about immersion to the one world of Azeroth, tempting you to explore and make you feel at home?
Meanwhile your character can progress with professions and skills and you can make friends as you do absolutely anything in the game aside from just questing. The game’s design urges you to take your sweet sweet time, because to get the full experience you actually need to take it slow rather than cause Azeroth wildlife genocide the moment you step in just so you can gain levels “efficiently”.

Layering will shift that priority to it being about leveling and tech smoothness over all of this for the first weeks or months. Is that the classic priority? I don’t see it personally.

There is a difference between a slow and steady pace and standing around spamming an attack so you can be the first to tag a mob for 30 minutes for each of the 5 or so kill quests in the starting area. Teaming up made it suck less, but no one could type because they were busy trying to tab mobs so there was no community to build there. That kind of experience wasn’t what I had back in 2005 when I first started playing.