I played up to Wotlk casually when I was in college and spending 8 hours a day leveling was nothing back then. I recently spent my first 8 hours doing quest (was having fun playing combat rogue, even though having to eat every two fights got kinda annoying) and I haven’t even hit 71 yet. I guess back to retail I go, as I wait for DragonFlight.
I wonder how many others out there bought into the hype but didn’t have time to level from 1, bought the 70 boost and ended up quitting a few hours in when the saw how much of a slog it is.
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I leveled a rogue from 70 to 80, am terrible at the class, and not very good at pve. Either your rotation needs help or your questing in an area that’s too high for your current gear. Wrath leveling took awhile for most back in 2008/2009, so it’s not unusual that it may be slower than you’re accustomed to coming from the current retail experience.
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Yeh 8 hours is a long time for a level, although honestly I did find level 70 to feel longer than later levels, maybe something to do with the quests in howling fjord.
It’s worth persevering, you can do it!
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Its been nowhere near 8 hours but I haven’t hit level 71 either. Started in Howling Fjord. I waited a few days before jumping into Wrath but there’s still plenty of competition for mobs/spawns for quests and what not. It does feel a little slow to me but I keep hearing the same thing: once you get past 71 it feels faster.
Yeah, thats another thing that was annoying about classic. Fighting over mobs with players of the same faction makes things even slower. Unfortunately, I just found out I have beta access to dragon flight. So long classic, you will be slightly missed.
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Leveled a rogue from 1 - 80 not sure what the problem really is for you, for me it’s slow and fun to enjoy.
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How dare you to party you’re saying?
imagine quitting because wrath leveling 70-80 is “too much of a slog”
i mean the game is boring and dumb, but i don’t think the speed of leveling 70-80 is the main problem 
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I’d argue more of not utilizing your CDs, like Evasion, Blade Flurry, and Adrenaline Rush. I happen to do this based on the situation, like aggro pull. I suggest having First aid also, this increases your “up time” between mobs. Using your stuns, Gouge, Dismantle, and Blind also help as well as Sap for multiple mobs before opening.
Rogues can’t really go “Ham” like a warrior, paladin, shaman, kitty, or dk for that matter do to them having sustainability. It’s more based on “planning” your engagements, not just a “if it’s red it’s dead”.
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I just regret it because I thought there’d be a profession boost as well. I had no idea i’d have to level all of my profs up from scratch. That ruined it for me and I haven’t touched my 70 since launch. I’m playing Classic Era now.
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I should have boosted this lock.
It’s been a real boring slog leveling 1 - 80.
I’m just bored to tears from Thousand Needles alone.
I really hope that they implement RDF in classic.
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Honestly leveling wasnt that bad once you get past borean tundra/ dragonblight it picks up the pace, grizzly hills, zul’drak, peaks, and Icecrown hand out xp like its going out of style.
dont level in howling fjord lol outside the utgarde keep quests that place has too much verticality
lol. please play the whole game for meeee
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All I can add is, enjoy the speed of it, slow down, smell the roses, absorb the story lines, its some of the best the warcraft universe will probably ever offer.
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Wrath wasn’t a total loss. Arthas, that is to say the lore, was way up there + with the way they wove that in. The raids were all pretty good. I enjoyed them at least, especially the ten man versions. For me personally, the only redeeming quality of Wrath were the classes themselves, forgetting DKs for a minute. Things definitely got easier in terms of maintenance but they still had retained their identities and got more interesting in Wrath.
Wraths big problem is it pretty much closed the gap between the haves and the have nots by the end. Everyone was in purps and had alts decked out too. People can and will refer to power gaps as a problem but when that’s diminished so is the drive to chase them because much less of it is required. The big catch 22 most people are completely ignorant of including developers/designers.
The game was more interesting when a not insignificant of players still had to push (ie PLAY) all the way to the end of the expansion. Its that simple. The game has got to be a long slog to the end but be so much fun you dont realize its a long slog to the end. Thats how it works.
I could go on forever. Wrath simply wasnt as good as Vanilla or TBC but it still had plenty going for it.
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Look how much each quest gives you on turn in. For me at level 72, it was 1%. 1% per quest. I just laughed and exited game.
People will be bored of Naxx by their second time in there. Everything is so easy in classic it’s just boring. The slog is all there is. People will realize it pretty fast.
Aaaanyway…Dragonflight looks fun and prepatch is this month. They kinda screwed their Classic launch putting it this close to retail expansion launch.
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I actually enjoyed the 70-80 leveling. Got a couple of northrend loremaster achievements, which is not something I’d even go for in vanilla. Am even considering going back to finish the areas I didn’t already get the achieves for. Vanilla and TBC questing felt like an absolute drag to me where I didn’t want to keep going. I’d say I hit around a level every 2-3 hours in Northrend, which isn’t too bad.
+all quests give out like 20-25k xp each, and each level is 1.5M xp, so it isn’t like you are missing out on much time if you are doing underleveled quests and killing the npcs much faster than you would the higher level ones.
Give it another go. It takes time. The xp per level hardly increases. As you get better gear, and your dps output increases, leveling gets much easier!
The entire expansion will last over a year, you mean to tell me you can’t hit 80?
Wrath is the most alt-friendly xpac ever, you can literally buy the previous raid tier’s gear with dungeon badges
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