Currently leveling a toon in Shadowlands, and I don’t care what anyone says, but this is awsome and way better than DF or TWW. I’m going to be sad when I hit 70.
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I only have 2 level 80s. Does the alt exp bonus keep climbing?
yes, it caps out at 5 80s aka you get 25% more xps next toons
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No.
The game ain’t about to change to accomodate you yourself playing to intentionally burn yourself out. This is entirely a self-inflicted issue.
So there’s two things going on here, at least from my perspective:
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Dungeons keep getting worse. How? With gimmicks. Think Grimrail Depot, Court of Stars, Vault of the Great Wardens or End Time. It’s fine doing this a few times but it gets really old, really fast. Earlier dungeons tend to be more straightforward, less annoying and thus more chill. You can autopilot them and a lot of people like that. You don’t necessarily want to deal with annoying mechanics or gimmicky things like exposing the imposter (even if it’s completely solved with an addon); and
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It’s a question of variety. In TWW there are 4 levelling dungeons. In TW there are 6 (soon to be 7) expansions, each with ~6 dungeons. So you’ve expanded your pool to 4 to 36 (soon 42). Plus there’s a break between them. Wrath TW is about to end. Barring any anniversary shenanigans over the TW rotation, you otherwise wouldn’t see these again until February or so.
There are a ton of people in this boat. I’m not sure people realized or just aren’t acknowledging how easy it was to get 70s in Remix and the prepatch. I got something like 80 toons to 70 in 10.2, most of them having 2.5 hours /played or less when they dinged 70.
Some things are a matter of opinion. Others are just objecctively wrong. This is objectively wrong. Ok, I’m joking. Sort of.
SL CT is an incredible hot mess. The biggest issue is that Blizzard made the weird decision to kill Threads of Fate for new toons when DF launched. Or in the prepatch. I forget. But the point is there’s no SL adventure mode for levelling toons. You only get to skip the campaign by getting to level 60. Forcing levelling toons into the campaign is awful.
Plus, there are all sorts of broken stuff like many of the side quests aren’t available until random levels like 52-53 because that’s what it was in Sl and it’s never been fixed with SL being available from level 10.
I don’t know what it looks like now but in DF I don’t believe you could get to 60 from just SL content. I could be wrong.
Legion or even BFA are significantly better levelling experiences. The only issue with Legion is the class hall and many other things are gated at level 45, which really limits your campaign progress. That wa a real problem in SL because CT only went to 50. It was still a problem in DF because 50-60 was so quick (eg like 3 quests per level).
So I just finished my 13th 80 this weekend, 1 of each class, and I have several other 70s as well as some lowbies in the works. I do not do progression raiding and enjoy m+ and profs on my main 13. I don’t plan on touching the other 70s until they add the catch up mechanism which seems to be about 1/2 or 2/3 through the xpac. This is partly (assuming the same as DF) because they will add the upgrade items for heirlooms at that point in time. If all you want to do is play old content (which is perfectly fine and I also enjoy), I would suggest just not playing the game until they add them. Although in all fairness, the XP I was getting for just doing random TW queue wasn’t terrible, I think I was getting 2 or 3 bars while unrested this weekend just for the queue xp.
at the end of my character combos (I got one of each now), i ran a speed test with a stop watch (okay the timer on my iphone) and i went from creation to 70 on pandaexpress in under 37 minutes. My old record was 42 minutes the trick was to skip looking in raids and open up your mailbox exp tokens for the fast compound leveling boom.
That character also had 28 more exp tokens in the mail i never looted in hopes when I transferred over to the real game, i could use them! haha i got a mail icon on my screen when i loaded up so i was super excited for a brief moment but realaized it was some panda key thing and a bunck of yak somethings… all the xps tokens went poof - oh well haha
Before or during prepatch?
I’m a little skeptical of this number. Why? Because before prepatch the record was barely under 30 minutes and that was a known speed leveller who used a Pandaria escape (to get guild flags) and a lot of help to queue heroics and a normal MSV raid (IIRC). Prepatch lowered the maount of XP needed but it also nerfed the Heroic random queue XP at low levels too.
My normal benchmark was ~50 blue and ~16 purple XP tokens to ding 70. During prepatch it was 45 or so blue tokens and 6 purple at level 35 or so. It was still worth doing the Normal MSV in both cases for the +72% XP.
I wasn’t the fastest leveller. I liked to chill more than that. Also, I was running 3 toons at once: a 20 Holy Priest and 2 levelling toons who were on /follow. You could still get caught on walls or furniture and you had to still hit /follow (a keybinded macro). It was less time per toon but more time than just running 1 would’ve been. But the priest could queue heals and one of the toons alays had a tank spec for instant queues.
It’s changed to accommodate alts many times. Warbands and the warband exp buff are just the latest examples.
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Whilst this is true I’m just gonna say this:
The experience boost for having levelled an alt to max level stops at 5 characters in total. Not 64 characters.
They aren’t going to accommodate the play pattern OP is referring to. Which is what I was referring to as well.
So…instead of leveling through the current expansion because it’s ‘boring’, you want to level this many characters through running the same set of dungeons over and over? Can’t you just run the TWW dungeons then?
this guy completely missed the point about Timewalking nurfs which he did not mention even once. He should be the WoW Community spokesperson.
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Maybe if you didn’t have 64 alts you’d actually have time to level a few of them to max… like what even is this thread lol
“THEY NEED TO MAKE CHEESEBURGERS SMALLER BECAUSE I KEEP TAKING ONE BITE OF THEM THEN THROWING THEM AWAY BUT I KEEP BUYING MORE AND I CAN NEVER FINISH ONE!”
Would love it if we had the option to Chromie time all the way to 80 after completing the war within level up campaign once. I want to play around with more hero talents across classes but the idea of doing TWW leveling 10+ times is just a slog.
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Do you even read? All 64 were level 70. I currently have nine of them at 80. I do get them to max.
It stacks up to 5 lvl 80s at 25% 
you can go 70-80 in regular TWW dungeons in like 3-4 hrs
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I never played Remix cause I hated Pandaria. You are under the assumption everyone played this content just like I forgot Remix existed or what it did.
I have 6 alts. not 64. Do you have 64?
They should remove and just open up all expantion to all the way to max level,i lock one too to 69 to find out strath is not in the lfg list not even lbrs i wanted that sword from rivendale jr x2 all weapon have same stat so why no just make weapon drop skin and let us keep legion weapon
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