I believe Blizzard should take inspiration from how Elder Scrolls Online is set up and make it where no content or zone feel completely obsolete and pointless. I feel this could be done fairly easily and it would bring many players so much more joy and enjoyment in the game. Things already scale with you character when you are leveling up 1-50. If they could extend that all the way to 60 and allow us to do the main storylines of older expansions while getting rewards that where at least somewhat comparable to the ones in the latest expansion it would make 95% of the game feel worth doing instead of completely obsolete. They could for instance make the gear in the older zones only cap out at like 200 item level or somewhere around there. That way to truly push your character to the max, you would have to do the latest expansion. But at least doing the old expansions wouldnât feel like a complete waste of time. Or there could be an option to scale the zone up to max level or play it at its original level. This would also be financially beneficial for Blizzard because it would incentivize people to spend more time in the older zones to see all of the storylines and experience the content that they missed if they started playing after those expansions were the endgame. I think this would be a win-win for everyone! Please Blizzard do this. It is one thing that makes Elder Scrolls Online so appealing. You never feel like you are wasting your time because there is always a chance you will find an upgrade even if you are in one of the starting zones. I hope you take my suggestion under consideration, Thanks!
no
oh, wait
ok, sure
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but wait, what if I just want to farm old content for mog?
sry just got back from like 10 year break, what is mog?
ESO handles end game gearing and questing so much better than WoW. You can level and get gear relevant to your level in any zone in the game. WoW needs better scaling and something like the CP system for end game. I should be able to go progress my character in any zone in the game, not just the current expansion.
Totally Agree
Armor/weapon appearances. Basically you can change the appearance of your gear. You can collect these appearances by doing current or old content.
I always said itâd be cool to work on a way to make warcraft more of a world and not just ââhereâs the new 4 zones, stay here for 9 monthsââ.
But I donât trust this team to do it well 
Like I said there could be an option to either scale he zones up to max level, or to scale them down so that you could still farm for awesome looking gear easily.
I think they could use chromie time for this. Just have everything scale to the player by default, and if you wanna solo old content for farm turn on chromie time and everything scales down to normal levels.
Obsolete content should have more dynamic events like the Nâzoth invasions added to them to leverage that theyâre already existing and donât need to be remade from scratch.
Then revamp professions to not only have more interdependency between them, but also to remove the stupid hard break between expansions now. I should need Peacebloom in some fashion to make some potions. Maybe not as the primary driver obviously, but in some regard. So thereâs more reasons to go into obsolete places.
Chromie Time and let it go to 60. Giving you access to old content between 51-60.
To add to this, the term mog is short for Transmogrification, or just transmog as people like to call it. Itâs the act of transforming your current gear to have the appearance of gear youâve gathered in the past, while retaining the same stats.
Do keep in mind that few restrictions apply. Such as you canât transmog into grey or white quality gear. You also canât transmog into gear your character can not physically wear (i.e. mage trying to wear plate armor).
WoW just needs to be out of Blizzs hands.
Retail is only going to rot further at this point.
Technically this is what Timewalking was supposed to do. Instead of throwing in current currency rewards and decent gear into the mix, they just throw a single game box at you.
I know what you are talking about. I do all kinds of Transmogging heh. I had just never heard it abbreviated to Mog. Thanks though, ya learn something new everyday 
Yeh the idea of Timewalking is cool, but it still just feels kinda pointless when it comes to progression. It would be soo much cooler if you could get ilvl 194 drops out of timewalking dungeons instead of level 40 uesless gear except for transmog.
I agree with almost all of that. But I just feel like adding the ability to scale old content up to 60 would solve so many problems and keep people invested in the game much longer. There are so many storylines I want to see and content I want to do, but I hardly do because Iâm always thinking, I could be farming Anima, or running Mythics and actually improving my character. If they would scale to 60. They could put a cap on the ilvl of the gear so you could get 226 gear from old zones, but at least make it where it didnât feel completely pointless. And I think Blizzard are going to lose more and more players to ESO if they dont address this issue
Donât force indefinite scaling on the entire game world. I canât stand the way games like ESO handles this and donât want WoW being made into an ESO clone in that regard. Chromie Time to Level 50 is fine because it can be turned on and off at will, allowing players to still outlevel/outgear some old content at various leveling milestones.
Also, the devs are never going to want to take every single quest reward and every single boss drop in the entire game world into account when balancing the gear of the latest expansion. Hearthstone regularly obsoletes old card sets for the same reason.
I am more in the Boat of making Content I consider Obsolete which as of Writing this is everything Classic to DraongFlight. All of this Content Mainly Dungeons and Raids and only for Solo Players are laughably made trivial by allowing players to do millions of DPS and also have All Mechanics Removed so basically the Bosses and Trash are literally just Standing there as Loot Pinataâs waiting to die and doing next to nothing in damage and they dont do any mechanics. Non Solo play so 2 or more people Sets the Difficulty a lot higher but still doable with 2 people or more but Boss Damage and Health does not go up and Mechanics do Need to be done if you need achievments for Meta of that Dungeon or Raid and any Boss Mechanics that might fail a fight or eeset/one shot a tank or all players.
If Blizzard did this and did it as Soon as a new Expansion Dropped I and many other would be more appreciative and WAY WAY less Negative towards them. Why Dragonflit is still the Same as it was Pre TWW is just sad They could of added a Blanket Nerf so people who want to Solo all 3 Dragonflight raids on all Difficulties now that Transmogs are all Unlockable on One character Except Class Specific items that require you to interact with it to turn it into your class set piece which as of Writing this is one thing we cannot do but learn everything else we can.
If they Nerfed Everything down to nothing while Buffing the Player but Only when they are By themselves more People would enjoy and actually do Transmog/Mount farming in âDeadâ Content. I hate being Limited By Blizzard and with No reason good enough By them. I want to play the Game My Way and If I play wow Like a Solo game then I am allowed and should be catered too Regardless of what the Mass of AFK in city players do. They play the game how you outlay it or how Streamers Play they have no Free thought of there own No sense of Adventure. I challenge anyone who has gotten this far to go and Inspect 5-10 random People in any major city or quest Hub at the moment Horde or Alliance and count how many of them are Enchanted Gemmed Upgraded How many have Legacy raid content Achievements have more than 1 Collection achievement for Appearances have more than 150 Mounts pets or Toys have an Honor Level above 0 etc. You will be amazed how many people are that Casual and Lazy or just do only Current Content and never leave that zone unless something like This New 20Th anniversary event currently running otherwisethey would not leave a Capital City which most of the current players Logged in are Residing.
now THAT is a necroâŚlmao
Jun 2021