Hear me out here. The current timeline is cata-tbc/wotlk-cata/mop-wod-leg-bfa. Why not change it so we start in outland 1-15 then northrend 15-30 azeroth 30-45 45-55 new cata zones 55-65 mop- 65-80 wod 80-95 legion and then 95-110 bfa. well ovbiously those are not proper level ratios but the order would make more sense in the story flowing correctly?
With mob scaling why not just go where you want and quest and not be forced to any zone/expac.
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Because currently its still structured to do them in a certain order like old azeroth-tbc/lk-cata/mop-wod-bfa. the order is just really out of wack. im all for letting us do any zone in any order 1-120
Personally, I like to start books from the beginning, not some random chapter based on how many other people have read the book.
Shouldnât the same be applied to the story in Warcraft?
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When youâve read that book on your 12 alts it gets pretty stale.
Leveling zones really should be 1-10 for the starters, then 10-110 for âlegacyâ zones.
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That idea is optimal but since blizzards stance on player choice as of late isnât good⌠id rather atleast have them in chronological order
I like this.
Each alt is a ânew character in the storyâ, technically speaking.
And 12? Iâm up to like 30.
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Thatâs not out of wack, that is the exact order they were released in and generally the order you would have done the content in. The current system is fine, there is no reason to try and deal with changing it up at this point. Today they just made leveling faster then ever, you shouldnât be spending nearly as much time doing older content.
I would endorse a more linear leveling system for a first ever toon per account in order for the lore to be presented in the proper timeline. Anything after that, however, should move into the scaling system. I prefer being able to level in the zones that I find the most enjoyable rather than being shoehorned into whatever zone comes next after leveling toons for 14 years. Thatâs just like âŚmy opinion, Man.
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No theyâre not. the 1-60 zones came out after burning crusade and wrath.
Well, Iâm sorry to say, unless your locking your XP youâre not reading every story chapter the game has to offer, regardless of what zone you choose. That why I want Classic again, makes your character feel like an actual part of the world.
In live the old zones are nothing more than just and obstacle, Iâd prefer to level in the zones I like rather than whatâs level locked. Itâs not like they donât have the tech to do just that.
After a few alts, the lore is basically ignored. You just bounce from quest giver to quest giver, accepting what you can to level out of the zone and into the next one as fast as you can. That is, if you donât decide to dungeon grind, which is considerably faster than questing at this point.
Iâve been leveling an alliance (scum) character by doing all of the pet battle masters in Eastern Kingdoms, Outland, Northrend, Cataclysm and then hitting the Pandaria portal, taking the three âbookâ quests for legendary pets plus battle masters and four elemental pet bosses.
This takes about three hours and gives over a level of experience at level 90-95. The bad news â when you get to level 100 and move to legion, youâre in level 80-85 gear.
My point is you would have done old world before BC, BC before Wraith, Wraith before Cata, Cata before WoD and WoD before Legion. So the current system is fine because they keep the content in the same order you would have done them without the level scaling be set by expansion order.
I have Loremaster, and have been playing since 2005. I have read every quest at least once. Iâm still reading quests, as I work on Kul Tiras.
And if youâre not reading them, then whats the problem?
My leveling order will be 1/20-60 in Classic, 60-80 in Northrend, 80-90 in Pandaria, 90-100 on Draenor, 100-110 in Legion. Then BFA.
But it is still not chronological. Why am i helping the world recover from the cataclysm, then going to outland to fight the burning legion, then to northrend to slay the lich king, then back to deathwing stuff?
That will never change, because if it did you COULDNâT do the older content because it was already defeated. I mean does it make any sense that you can travel to Northrend to kill a Lich King we killed years ago? The game makes allotments for time oddities because otherwise expansions would become pointless once a new one was launched.
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Leveling feels like youre experiencing the timeline outside what I previously stated.