Someone on Moon Guard is leveling to 60 without touching Shadowlands content even though they own the game. He’s doing it in protest of Blizzard. It inspired me, I’m going to do it as well on a character. I’m imploring you all to do the same.
We should protest how bad things have gotten, with the delayed release, overbearing systems, and jump the shark narrative/story that has happened in Shadowlands.
Of course the best way to protest them is to cancel your sub but I’m too addicted to the game, especially Classic BC, and this solution is for people like me.
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I did this by accident on my Priest. Not because I was dissatisfied with Shadowlands, but because I was having fun with Archaeology. lol
It’s not that hard if you go through professions. You can herb to 54 at about the same speed as questing to 54 if you use monel-hardened stirrups, have BfA flying, and use the KT Herbalism glove enchant. Pet battles reward experience as well. There are also BGs at every level.
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I often wonder if the metrics of what content people are doing and how much time they’re spending in it matters.
I certainly think it matters to devs. Why else would they keep nerfing and removing old content? They’d rather people quit than play the game wrong.
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You’re going to teach Blizzard a lesson by paying them to not play the game you pay for? Sounds crazy to me, dawg.
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It’s the dumbest way to protest NGL, it’s like saying “hey i hate your product but im too addicted to quit so you can do whatever you want”.
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People who play old content or don’t play retail at all are hurting the participation goals set for new content. Thus, you will have to do twice as many dungeons to get ksm to make up for all the twinks spamming old dungeons.
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I’ve done it. Had my BfA Paladin with a timewalking set. WoTLK dungeons are heckin’ fast if you’re with a group with skips and in tank/healer spec you’re good to go.
(Not intentional or in protest or anything).
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I mean, you also have some of the most popular content like random battlegrounds utterly ignored too, and that’s considered ever-green/current. Granted, that’s PvP, and it honestly feels like they’re just trying to milk the last of it before taking it out back.
So should I do Kul Tiras Herbalism you think?
I have a number of characters that I simply cannot face taking through the Maw intro again. So I won’t. Until a Maw skip is introduced they will not enter Shadowlands. And if they never introduce one then I guess those alts will never do the expansion. I will also probably level them to 60 outside of it; some of them are already around 52 doing other activities.
If Doubleagent can do it on the Pandaren starting area, so can I…only not there, of course. 
I understand someone also levelled a goblin without leaving the goblin starting area, though that was a lot harder I believe.
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At lvl 50 any non SL quest you do gets nuked to 10% the Xp reward. . Why would you keep doing questing at such a low reward?
For the challenge.
Back when warlords was new, I was a new player. Someone said that you couldn’t reach level 100 without going to draenor. I took it upon myself as a challenge, and I did it.
Later, during Legion, someone said that a 98 couldn’t get geared up enough to do normal dungeons. Again, I challenged myself and ended up with a twink tank who smashed those dungeons and soloed them for ap.
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Hey you do you.
Leveling at 1/10th the speed would be no bueno for me.
I hate the currently speed to level 50-60 as it is…
But…I’m having a blast!
This patch is fantastic!
I haven’t played my main(Disc/Shadow) much but I have been having a blast on my Hunter.
I’m loving all the new stuff too.
Torghast is a lot funner now. And will only get better as I get the tree levelers up.
The new zone is awesome.
We got a new mega dungeon coming.
New raids!
Wtf is wrong w you people.
If your hating it that much, why are you even here?
Edit: In before, I’m a “shill” or “whiteknight” simply because I’m enjoying the content.
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Both myself and a family member has done this with several characters.
Pet Battles and Archaeology mainly, and there’s even a bonus to doing so:
If you level to 60 and then go through the Maw Intro, the Maw Intro is way faster (especially if you craft 151 blues for them) because the Maw Intro does not scale up to your level so the stuff in said Intro is only Lv50 and you kill everything in 5-8 seconds.
And THEN, once you get to Oribos and get to the part where you choose, go with Threads of Fate.
Since you are Level 60, once you join your covenant, you skip straight to the covenant questline, and bypass the % meters in the 4 zones entirely.
The only problem with this, is you are Lv60 with a i100 weapon at best, and you’ll need to figure out how to get a weapon (or weapons if you’re unlucky enough to be forced to Dual-wield).
Thankfully, there are a few rares that are oftentimes up (like the 4 in Bastion) that drop weapons, just wait for someone else to fight it and jump in.
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Then go enjoy the game.
Your opinion on why others might not be enjoying is neither wanted nor warranted.
Usually protests involve a financial boycott, rather than inflicting suffering on oneself.
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Exactly. Granted, I don’t seem to hate Shadowlands as much as others, but the thought of leveling to 60 other ways seems so much worse to me.
I’ll join you by not buying next month’ sub. Didn’t buy SL so I can’t do the samd thing.
But good luck with what you’re doing!
I don’t think quitting is the only way of protesting,
Blizz would be stupid if they ignore these other attempts, especially from the ones who actually bought and played the game.
(…Maybe they are stupid tho.)
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