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Perhaps this is just a gripe but wanted to vent and hear what you think/feel. I have been a player since Wrath. Used to have a few alts where you would start the traditional old areas, and sort of go through the expansions in a sort of quick grind. But it was nice you sort of got a quick dirty intro to your race/character. I know with this new expansion they have the new starting area. If you don’t choose that you are sort of thrown into the world and quests of obviously not in order etc. Like I just did a random quest and it threw me into BfA now in in Zandalar at lvl23 and I was hoping to old school Wtlk my death knight some before I leveled.

That was clearly not gonna be the case, leveling is way faster. And now I feel like old zones that sure I ran through with other alts, are just. There.

Like with the new system. What is the point of the zones? Sure there is the timely invasion. But man that just feels odd.

I don’t know this new system feels like the game is saying, forget the entire world and just do the new one. Sorta sad about it and almost sad that it makes me feel like creating alts is meh now. I sorta liked that slow starting grind.

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I entirely agree with you.

WoW isn’t the same game it was. It dosn’t have the structure I loved when I started.

The devs listen mostly to the heavy players, the sweaties and the louds. And they would remove levelling altogether.

OTOH, I am not the same person I was when I started. Once I have levelled to max, and seen all; the zones, and understood alll the mechanics, I could no longer get the same discovery experience I did from those early characters.

Maybe I would be bored and frustrated if I levelled the old way, at the old speed, now.

If Blizzard let us choose, when creating a new character, whether it would level with the old scaling and rules, or the new, I’m not sure I would choose the old.

Cata Classic is there if you really want that old levelling experience.

But something is definitely lost.

Personally, I blame scaling even more than the shortened levelling.

You say it “threw” you into BfA. Did you tru talking to Chromie outside the Stormwind Embassy and asking for Wrath? She will offer that service for levelling characters 10-60.