So blizzard what happened to fast leveling?

[Anon-dalaran-915113]

https://www.wowhead.com/news=317536/shadowlands-experience-table-changes-xp-required-from-50-to-60-increased

So heirlooms going to get their xp buff back?

[Audreeana-hydraxis]

Lighten up Francis. You guys start freaking out about stuff before it’s even a problem.

From the same article you linked.

“This change was put in likely because it was very fast to reach level 60 in beta, with only campaign quests being more than enough to make a fresh character ding 60 and still have half of the last zone to spare.”

[Morgam-proudmoore (Morgam)]

Looking at the link you posted, it seems like about half of all levels had their exp requirements reduced slightly, actually.

[Nelvix-stormrage]

Before this gets taken out of context, let me explain. The time it takes to level 1-50 has not changed, it will still take about 10-20 hours playtime depending on what you do. For example, I leveled from 1-50 in 14 hours. Now…the experience from 50-60 needed adjustment because you got to level 60 before you finished the story in rev. Also with not doing any dungeons. So the extra 30% table in XP from 50-60 makes it so you as a player will finish the main storyline AS you hit max level (60). This change will NOT impact the heirlooms at all.

[Rindoria-thaurissan]

OP needs to troll harder if they want to be taken seriously.

[Pyromor-shandris (Pyromor)]

Omg,this is a mess didn’t they say it would be 70 percent ex and now it’s scaled ex?

[Pyromor-shandris (Pyromor)]

@Anon-dalaran-915113

So heirlooms going to get their xp buff back?

No,they gaveth and take it away.

[Vadimier-tanaris (Vadimier)]

I’d like to finish the last zone right around the time I ding 60 to be honest.

If they do the legion format where the story ends in the dungeon, I’d like to find 60 somewhere in the dungeon.

Looks fine. The sky doesn’t appear to be falling.

[Silverleigh-drakthul]

Already being discussed in this thread:

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[Thequixote-staghelm (Thequixote)]

@Nelvix-stormrage

Now…the experience from 50-60 needed adjustment because you got to level 60 before you finished the story in rev. Also with not doing any dungeons.

I have a philosophical problem with this. If that’s the reason than story is dictating game play.

I don’t have problem with leveling taking longer. But that story is determining game play is an issue.

Great game play can save a bad story, but a great story isn’t going to save horrible game play.

[Rhyth-kirin-tor]

@Anon-dalaran-915113

So heirlooms going to get their xp buff back?

They’re talking about levels 50-60. Didn’t heirloom xp bonuses stop at (level cap - 10)?

I don’t see the issue here…

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

@Anon-dalaran-915113

So heirlooms going to get their xp buff back?

They’re slightly slowing down 50-60 so you have to do all of the zones to reach level 60. Also, we wouldn’t even have heirlooms that work up to 60 until 9.1 or so.

[Zàkirt-dawnbringer]

@Rindoria-thaurissan

OP needs to troll harder if they want to be taken seriously.

Did somebody call for voodoo?

[Yukine-kilrogg (Yukine)]

IIRC, you have to finish most (all?) of the story line before you can choose a covenant to work with in the end game. You’re supposed to get to know them all before you choose which one to join.

So, it would be pretty silly if you hit max level, then discovered you couldn’t do any of the max level content because you hadn’t finished the quests that unlock it. (Rather annoying, really.)

And the story is really just dictating the pacing of the content. Not the gameplay.

[Nuamooa-zuljin]

It was all smoke and mirrors. They never intended to keep fast leveling. They were always intending to change it after it was too late for players to have any hope of influencing events.

[Ibdvoodoo-illidan]

I be de voodoo.

[Sharpbladez-proudmoore (Sharpbladez)]

since youre a brand new wow player that has never experienced a beta, they usually do 2-3 passes on balancing leveling xp

also, the terms PTR, Alpha, Beta means its unfinished. So calm down, give constructive feedback and stop acting like every little change means its going Live like that.

[Life-bleeding-hollow]

You’d finish getting to 60 before you even finished the last zone on story quests alone.
It’s a good thing.

[Ibdvoodoo-illidan]

In all likelihood leveling will get longer, based on a variety of observations. When level scaling was first implemented, leveling went from 30 hours to 120 hours, and it took a year for them to change that, long after people who had been leveling characters as their end game had quit.

And not long after the beta started, Ion said that based on the fact that powerleveling by the top % was too fast, leveling was going to be slowed down.

I fully expect that they will continue to slow down leveling during shadowlands. Vanilla leveling took months, and everything about vanilla was perfect and should be shoehorned back into the game, so…

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Pyromor-shandris

Omg,this is a mess didn’t they say it would be 70 percent ex and now it’s scaled ex

What they said was

“Depending on your playstyle it’s 60 to 70% faster to level from 1 to 50”

source: https://youtu.be/6OHDAwg-Tw4?t=1095

So even if 50 to 60 takes 300 hours as long as 1 to 50 is 60 to 70% faster than now they are still delivering what they promised.