I’ve yet to buy ShadowLands, still trying to wrap my head around all the changes since Pandaria (last time I played WoW). As I understand it, every zone (or expansion) now has a level hard cap: most are 75 while the world is 300 & newer expansions are 100 or 175. I see an awful lot of patterns (eg., LW) under “unlearned”, from old content & newer content areas. How do you learn these without expert trainers? Chromie resets your timeline, does that include professions (i.e., going back to how it was when it was released)? Many folks are telling me to concentrate on SL (which I do not have yet) & forget the “old stuff” - but aren’t there still achievements for that older content? Training quests? Professions have always been a day late & a dollar short, but this “new” system seems to want to eliminate them altogether. I’m really confused guys.
As an example: I am in Pandaria, leveled my fishing to 75, doing angler daily quests, but there is not way to level past 75? All fishing content in Pandaria is rated 1-75 now? Does this not make the old fishing poles & gear obsolete or at best useless?
That is correct, with the exception of Archaeology. Archaeology still follows the old system where you have to level up through the expansions.
When you look in the “unlearned” section it tells you how to get those recipes, although some of the descriptions are rather vague like “world drop”. When professions were updated, they combined all the recipes so you don’t need to go to expert trainers.
You also don’t purchase the various training ranks in the Classic zones. You get the 300 max to start with instead of the 75, 150, etc.
Chromie just modifies the levels of the enemies so you can get to 50 in any expansion you want. It doesn’t change the content to how it was “back then”. Anything that was removed by the end of an expansion is still gone. Biggest example being the Artifact Power and traits in Legion.
If you are working on those achievements, then you should do the old stuff. However, if achievements aren’t your thing, then only the newest content is relevant (except for Engineering, Tailoring for profession bags and, to an extent, Alchemy).
Yes, you now only have to level up 75 points in Pandaria. You don’t have to do Classic, Outland, Northrend, and Cataclysm fishing before you can work on Pandaria fishing. Of course this profession set up means that you no longer have the overlap for the last 25 points which made profession leveling easier.
It does, but that is because they set the values so low that your skill isn’t raised enough to have much of an impact. This particularly creates problems for Classic and Warlords of Draenor content as you needed fishing skills above the max to get the good fish or not catch junk.