Had to get up at 2 am to even make a character. Made a human and after 10 minutes logged off and made a night elf - human area is still impossible even after an hour to complete the first quests.
Got my night elf to lvl 5 within an hour. I always enjoyed leveling up new character so really it wasn’t all that different. I should add when I was writing this I was thinking prior to zone scaling - don’t like zone scaling at all have tried it, and I don’t like it, so don’t level new characters anymore on live.
When I was leveling characters they always had to earn all their own gold because I enjoy that process - so again beta classic was nothing different.
Having more of a need for that currency and having to make choices between training might be a good thing but it didn’t seem all that difficult to get enough. Yes level 5 might be different later on.
My night elf rogue actually felt like it was easier to kill things in classic than it is live - why I don’t know - maybe I am actually having to hit things less.
I started playing later wrath and after CRZ hit and I got put into the Chicago PvE CRZ group which made making new characters impossible because of exactly the same mob competition as classic I stopped leveling characters in that CRZ grouping.
Overall the game isn’t different to me just more time consuming. I pick up the quest and the first thing I think is they have even this time gated, i.e. the slow scrolling appearance, and no one is complaining about it.
I always wondered why there is so much hate for BfA because it really isn’t all that bad. I tend to think classic is exactly the same phenomenon happening but the reverse.
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