TBC Classic, prepatch leveling

Remember too that 1-60 leveling in TBC was pretty substantially cut down.

If I remember right it was something large too, like 20% of the overall XP requirement taken away.

My ret back in the day made it to outland in the first 5-6 days post launch.

I remember levelling a shaman when original TBC launched. Obviously wasnā€™t as efficient as i am today but i do remember it didnā€™t take long to do at all. I also levelled mining and JC on the way. Iā€™d like to say it took maybe 9 days /played.

I wonā€™t play tbc unless itā€™s completely fresh tbh. Hardly seems fair to anyone who didnā€™t roll mage in this horribly mismanaged mess to allow them to bring their tens of thousands of gold.

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Because someone elses gold is somehow hindering you? You do have the ability to make your own mage and also make ā€œ10ā€™s of thousands of goldā€. Or dont. Either way it has no effect on you.

Just to add this on, I do not have a mage and i have maybe 900 gold spread across my main and alts. There are people in my guild with 20k+ gold because they have multiple mages. It doesnā€™t effect me at all, or anyone else in the guild.

I too donā€™t use brain cells sometimes!

Tens of thousands of gold day 1 into BC will mean a completely obliterated economy. The economy on classic is already terrible as it is. They can offer us a fresh instance of the game or not. I am fine with not playing it. If I want to play BC there is plenty alternative servers that never had a busted version of classic first

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It actually wonā€™t effect the economy that much. The majority of players will not have a ton of gold to bring over. There will be a select few with ā€œ10ā€™s of thousandsā€ as you put it, but they wonā€™t be able to negatively effect the economy on a large scale.

There are millionaires all over the planet, but i can still go buy a loaf of bread for $2.

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Iā€™m preparing my druid for TBC so I really hope they do a ā€œnaturalā€ transition and allow us to transfer existing 60s or reroll if we want.

If everyone is forced to start over, weā€™ll be World of Barbies and Space Goats.

Boosting will be the standard even more-so if people are rolling during launch. Reason being that at least 50% of the boosters out there are in some way associated with gold sellers. My server has a huge cartel of gold sellers t hat run boosts all day

We didnā€™t even use a paladin, we just had our mages flamestrike and nuked the adds

I mean Iā€™ve already spent a few thousand gold on my future paladin for speed leveling gear and 0-300 profession boosts.

Actual dungeon boosting would be pretty wonderful if people are really still doing it post tbc launch (instead of, say leveling to 70 themselves)ā€¦ Hopefully theyā€™d get rid of the 30/day instance lock as well, since even with out boosts, itā€™s easy to hit that cap during the 30-40 sm slog, particularly when 5 rets can just power bomb sm with everyone being a tank, healer, and dps.

Developing games is expensive yes, but the tuning of existing stuff is not hard and not really expensive.

There is a lot that could be done, but I just donā€™t trust Blizzard any more.

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People will do it, there will be a big demand and the gold farmers will take advantage of that while the pressure is on to hit max lvl quickly

ā€œIf Blizzard doesnā€™t let me bring my classic characters to tbc Iā€™m not gonna play tbc!ā€

Yes you will. You know you will. You have multiple 60s and play 40 hours a week. Wtf else are you gonna do?

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I wonā€™t though, I want to play tbc with my character Iā€™ve spent 49 days on, not classic over again on a new character.

Iā€™ll just play something else.

making gold in tbc is even more trivial than it is in classic

resetting gold will do absolutely nothing

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If itā€™s just classic over again why play anyway?

Then Iā€™ll do TBC classic 15 years from now.

You realize weā€™re going to have an army of alts and tons of gold in tbc right? You canā€™t take our knowledge of tbc away. We will get to 70 first. We will farm everything needed in tbc first. The unfortunate thing is tbc wouldnā€™t survive if everyone had to start over. I asked several of my friends how they felt about starting over. Not one of them was for it and none of them played pservers like I did. None of them have a ton of gold. None of them are leveling an army of alts like I am to be a primal mooncloth farm like I am.

I doubt blizzard starts us over.

Its going to happen regardless.
Right now the alliance pop is what it is with a portion of the paladin playerbase only playing alliance cause they have too.
Remove the only thing keeping them there and the only thing they lose is past character progression in a non-monetary/non-gear sense.

If I mained a pally theres no way iā€™d be staying alliance.

Wrong. Making gold pre-dailies was a pain in the backside.