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as it says here… you have the option to level through BFA or, you can choose to travel through time to past expansions.
The current 1-60 zones, aren’t really part of an expansion, they were introduced via cataclysm, but cataclysm main content was hyjal, deepholm, ulduar, etc.
also, the expansions are 5 or 10 levels, easy enough to scale alongside each other.
kalimdor and eastern kingdoms are a whole other story.
Another thing, it says you access these expansions by time travelling with chromie, which suggests they may not be accessible by current means. it suggests blizzard are trying hard to create a good integrity in their game world, and that would necessitate removing the content that is now very dated.
perhaps we can still visit areas in kalimdor and eastern kingdoms and they would appear correct for current time events, a burnt teldrassil, a messed up tirisfal glades, etc. but the current levelling zones… I can’t see them being left in there.
EDIT : originally posted on reddit but of course I got downvoted to hell for having an opinion. That place is so damn toxic.
all it means…is that every zone pre-bfa…will scale. so if you wanna lvl in any zone…you can.
1-10 is intro stuff. 10-50 can be anywhere. if instead of going to barrens or westfall at 10…you can go to pandaria or outland. all lvl scale so you can enjoy any zone.
Thinking some more, after this new 1-10 experience, you are set up to start bfa content, which means dark shore and tirisfal glades are already messed up at this point. not only are these areas completely unavailable as a result, the travel connections are also messed up.
it may be true that chromie could take players back in time to cataclysm era levelling from 1-60, it seems that won’t be the case, because they didn’t say it in their marketing and it seems like it would be more work to get it all scaled properly.
This. Pretty sure they’re not taking out westfall, barrens, duskwood, stv, etcetera. They were using the word ‘expansion’ loosely I think. They’re just letting you choose which one to level through. And some other stuff they said makes it look like you can go back into old content after you outlevel it to run old dungeons for xmogs etcetera. I don’t know what mechanism there may or may not be for changing expansions while levelling though. Like if you’re level 30 in pandaria and not feeling it anymore, could you go back to chromie and ask to go to legion.
Yeah, I am assuming that the case is we will basically be able to go anywhere before level 50. Again, details are not 100% revealed yet, i’m sure later today at blizzcon they will explain it more.
I would really hate it if I couldn’t solo old dungs any more.
I do like to do that now and then.
@steve,
But if you access them via chromie, then what is the normal modern day state of them. I flew over tirisfal glades last night for the first time since bfa. My god that place is a mess.
as a lvl120 character, one simply cannot choose to play in the old areas. This will be the same for a lvl50 character after the squish.
Yet you can land in ashenvale and play old quests. That just seems all kinds of wrong. I can’t see them leaving it that way.
even if they physically leave the maps there and npcs, they have to excise so much of the game content.
Maybe you’re right and maybe they also meant current 1-60 in that image. I don’t think they would do that, these company’s are so careful with every bit of marketing they release.