Leveling in this game is so ridiculously easy that you can get to 90 in a day; it’s that stupid.
I’m getting to the point where I am overwhelmed by my own character list, with so many characters. Warbands are cool and all, but do we seriously need all 60+ characters from different servers on the same login screen?
it’s way too fast. we get 15% of an xp bar filled up per quest. they need to lower it to 8%. you can get from 1-81 in a week, you will miss out on some quests if you timewalk. I wish they dlowed it down a bit it’s too much.
Im not trying to be rude… but why not play classic?
Retail has been entirely end game focused since arguably tbc.
Hard to balance leveling for people with jobs/families and also people that can spend an entire day power leveling a character.
Earthen can get to 90 in like 3 hours but everyone else is going to be more like 8 or more hours, which for a lot of people is going to be spread over several days to weeks.
This is straight up the move if you want a slow paced atmospheric leveling experience. I’m not someone with a lot of time but I still go to classic from time to time to relax.
Oh, I do play classic. My highest character on TBC is around 63-64, I don’t remember. I just haven’t played in a few months because I was busy with school.
I’m not saying retail needs to go at a turtle pace, leveling-wise, but I don’t think we need to be running around with leveling buffs, constant lvl boosts from expansions, etc.
I kinda envy you. I started in classic but didn’t hit level cap till right before tbc. It was my first expansion and had a blast.
Tried to replay it on classic but hit the “ I already did this…” Feeling instantly. Couldn’t cross the same river and return home even after all this time.
You’re right. Levels should be abolished completely. It’s 2026
This feels entirely up to you , do you need thay many characters? Lol
If you have no life.
Oh no, my lobster is too buttery and my steak is too juicy 
It’s your conscious choice to create that many characters and if you don’t want to level anymore - there is a level freeze option.
If it was the other way around, and it was not long ago, you’d still complain by the way.
I’m keeping most of my alt army at level 70. I have 13 that will be level 90. When the last tit comes out, I will upgrade 24 of my 70s to 80.
Play classic.
There’s a better fix. Finish the quest line instead and keep questing after you’re 90.
there is not one within 10 levels of max level. This has been the bane of my game play since returning. I am one expansion behind and end up out leveling the content. It has happened twice: when TWW was max level and I wanted to finish DF. I ended up being level 75 and mobs being green/grey.
The same is happening to me now. I am trying to finish TWW and I am level 84 and mobs are green.
It gets worse because I will go into Midnight, like I did TWW, 5 levels above the starting zones.
This all being said: level in the previous expansion … you will only get 4 levels due to the reduced XP.
TBH I wish leveling was faster. I loathe questing.
After playing this game on and off for 20 years, I don’t mind the fast levelling, since I’ve done it all before, over and over and over again…
… but I get it. Sometimes you want that ‘slow-burn’ experience, stopping to smell the roses and immerse yourself in older zones as much as they were back in their heyday. But you level too fast and things get trivialized too quick, that it’s more boring one-shotting everything than it is the other way with Vanilla-paced leveling as the alternative.
My suggestion is to have Chromie put some kind of XP-debuff on your character as you level in any particular expansion-timeline… so that the ‘difficulty’ is more aligned with your progress as you go through all the zone, doing dailies, and farm gear; until your reach the endgame of that expansion era.
Another suggestion would be to introduce a whole new set of Heirlooms that nerf XP gains, and retain item-level on par with green-gear, instead of dungeon-blues…. that way characters wanting that slow-burn and somewhat mild challenging experience can do so without Blizzard redoing the current XP calculations for the entire game.
leveling is awful in retail lmao
The game has become alt-friendly, and for good reason.
But one thing I know for sure is that no matter what the leveling speed is, slow or fast, someone won’t be happy.
The more user friendly option is to keep it fast. There are xp freezes up to a certain level for a reason.
Don’t do it.
The whole design of the “seasons” is a self inflicted wound for the game. They release the “leveling campaign” with the expansion. That works normally.
Then they release 2-4 more campaigns that are gated behind existing MAX level as seasons.
So when someone like me comes along later and wants to play TWW (for instance), I am gated behind that previous max level to even start that content
So as was mentioned about pausing XP. If you do that you can only experience 1/4 of the full expansion. You have to get to previous max level to open the rest of the expansion, then you over level.
EDIT: meaning I could pause XP at 79 … only to experience 1/4 of TWW. I have to be 80 to experience the rest, and then I can’t pause and then I over level.
it is a cluster f