One of the biggest misses with Cataclysm was that the revamp didn’t go far enough. It also was the beginning of how disjointed the leveling process became, fragmenting the experience and making getting into the game as a new or returning player confusing.
The new 1-60 zones were disappointing in other ways too. It was so fast that mobs would be green or sometimes grey by the time you finished the story of a zone, leading to the entire experience feeling hollow.
I’m not saying outland and northrend should be removed from the leveling process, if people want to go there to level they should be able to. But IMO, especially with #somechanges in mind, not adding something like Chrome Time to the leveling experience, or at LEAST scaling the eastern kingdom and Kalimdor content to 80 is big missed opportunity.
I truly believe the way the world revamp was handled is one of the main reasons why Cata was received as poorly as it was. It erased the old world many people loved and replaced it with an experience that didn’t feel finished all while making things super confusing from a narrative standpoint.
Cata zones probably had the best quests and leveling in history
I might be the oddball here, but I liked the Vashir zone the most.
I agree mobs should scale. The zones are good but you go through them too much. Something like Chromie time would work much better with cata and would allow players to level 1-80 in azeroth and then go straight to the new zones.
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I really enjoyed the max level zones, but honestly didn’t care for the low level zones until they added Chrome time. Back in the day you’d outlive them and everything was so trivial it barely felt like a game.
I really believe it.
To me, one of the problems with retail expansions in general is that they don’t make the game bigger, they actually make the game smaller. And they pretty much were pasted on top of the previous expansions, with nothing being done about streamlining the leveling experience.
Think back to Legion…
You’d start in Cata and go 1-60. Then go to Outland till 70(okay, 68, but let’s stick with caps for simplicity). Northrend till 80. Cata till 85. Mop till 90. Wod till 100. Then Legion till 110.
An absolute mess.
Cata revamped zones should have been the new 1-80 leveling experience. That would have added much needed organization to the world and its leveling experience, and could have laid the groundwork for a much more cohesive game.
Still don’t understand the whole classic cata thing on the basis of;
- Cata content in its original form is still accessible
- Azeroth in retail vs Azeroth in Cata is no different
- Same raid bosses can be done today, albeit without a raid cap limitations, and can be soloed in most cases
- Why force another character migration from classic content to current content for all classic TBC/LK players, makes little sense
- Keep 1 active LK server per zone (east/west coast) for players who do not want to move/play cata, and further content already available today, AGAIN
That way
- The current classic L60 servers remain (including HC/SoD)
- There will be a LK server/s available for pre-Cata content
- Those, for whatever strange reason, who want to play cata/mop/wod/legion can do it all over again, in parallel to retail which offers the exact same content