How important is the leveling experience to you?

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I see a lot of players in this forum mentioning that they are planning on a very casual leveling run in classic, that they want to ENJOY it.

For those of you who played Vanilla, how much did you really enjoy leveling? Do you plan on trying to make that a big part of the experience in Classic?

For me, Vanilla was the first MMORPG I ever played. I had lots of fun leveling because everything was new, everything felt epic. This time I want to spend a bit more time on the Lore, having some fun with that, maybe even a RP server, who knows.

What does the leveling experience mean to you?

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Not at all, leveling SUCKS! Bring on Naxx :sunglasses:

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I really enjoy leveling so it’s a pretty significant part for me.

:man_shrugging:

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Its not the 21 to 22 that is interesting - its all the bits in between. Visiting places, managing gear/inventories, getting supplies. Deciding when a good time is to visit home and train your skills. I don’t wait until max level to get started on my professions - I keep them up to speed and use what I make instead of generating a ton of throwaway items just to train the skill.

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I leveled through both factions multiple times during vanilla or before Cata. The leveling experience means very little to me, especially now that I know most of the tricks to both get through it faster and get the most gold out of it.

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its the part of the game I look forward to the most honestly.

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Yeah, this is what I was getting at.

I really enjoyed that leveling had its own thing going on and there was always something to do. Training skills, training profs, questing, farming, gathering, dungeon runs… felt like the world was alive and that the journey to 60 mattered.

I really miss that.

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I leveled up more characters in Vanilla than in any of the expansions. But I was on active duty at the time so I never got that far into the endgame - I’m actually looking forward more to being able to see the raids in all their 1.12 glory than leveling again.

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How would you feel if someone made an extremely efficient leveling guide / mod for Classic and everyone was using it?

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Those guides have already existed since Vanilla and will be dusted off and maybe updated I’m sure. Use them. Or don’t use them. Nobody is going to care. Remember thottbot?

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tentonhammer

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Simple. Just don’t read it. Dilemma solved.

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What happens when everyone else does?

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I absolutely loved leveling. Questing, exploring, working on professions. It’s part of why I can have as many alts as I do, because when I’m getting bored on one, I swap to another and change up what I’m doing. I enjoyed each new level having meaning - a talent, a new skill to learn, accessing the next level for a profession, learning to ride, getting closer to 60.

(In fact, that was one of the death knells for Legion for me. I completed all the Broken Isles questing on this gal, completed it all on a DH, and did not ever want to do it again. I leveled another six or so entirely through mission table XP just to avoid “leveling”. I leveled one character from 80 to 103 without doing Broken Shore just to avoid Legion leveling.)

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Monkey see monkey do I guess. Doesn’t bother me. Nor am I a sheep. Not everyone plays a game as if the objective is to make it faster and easier - you make it clear that you do.

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That’s fine you can always play WoW like it’s a single player game.

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And you can always follow trends like a hipster.

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Why does how other people play the game affect anyone?

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Leveling for me is the least important thing about Classic. Unless you just keep making alts majority of your time will be at max level.

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In an MMO, quite a lot I would think.