Did it expedite leveling speed? Yup. But boy oh boy has the squish ripped the last vestiges of the ‘MMORPG’ soul right out of WoW live. I started a fresh blood elf mage yesterday. In 28 levels, I have:
*Seen only 3 other people.
*Not run - nor felt compelled to run - a single instance.
*Spoken to no one.
*Been enormously, almost hilariously disengaged.
Look, I get it: it’s the destination, not the journey that matters with WoW, and people looking for anything else should just go play classic. Noted.
But, if that’s the case, why ask people to level at all? The experience has now devolved to feeling like a brief, tacked-on time sink with no purpose. You don’t meet anyone, you don’t do dungeons, you don’t (IMO) have time to effectively learn your class… even the ‘accomplishment’ of gear gains mean absolutely nothing.
One of the major justifications hear aimed against some theoretical ‘WoW II’ is ‘why would they want to remake or start over on a huge, in-depth world that they’ve already made?’ Well… it seems like we’ve kind of reached that point, now, regardless. Why even keep the old zones at all if their entire purpose can be easy-baked down to a lonely, dull, 12-hour slog?
I don’t know if we’ve been playing the same game. Did you activate the chromie time scaling? I’m finding myself able to do entire rotations on named quest mobs.
I’ve seen more people than I was seeing before the patch (especially in PvE mode in Northrend)
I don’t like power scaling. It makes me feel like my computer is lying to me. It also makes me feel like my characters are becoming weaker. It’s easier for my characters to kill a mob at level 20 than it is for them to kill the same mob at level 40, so why level up at all? The game right now feels like there are only two levels: max level and not max level.
I’m leveling up a new alt and following the “new path” 100%. I’m currently in Boralus, level 16 I think when I logged off for the day, and there are TONS of people around. We are tripping over each other. lol
I never read up on Chromie time though (yeah I know, bad me.) Anyway whatever time I’m in as a “brand new player” is what I’m in. lol Leveling up fairly fast, especially as I have very little time to play.
My only “oh dang” so far is I like to do Drustvar first upon arriving in Boralus and I can’t. I have to do Tiragarde first. No biggie, but a little frustrating. My Dwarven Fury Warrior is currently in Freehold, just needs to put on her pirate hat and start whacking away at some nasty pirates. lol
I have noticed this as well. I’ve also noticed that the tuning just in general seems incredibly wonky. I don’t know why Blizzard feels like it should take me 2+ minutes to bring down a WoD rare while in full heirlooms… but it does. And, given the overall pointlessness of the entire exercise, that isn’t fun.
Really? I was bopping around Dal (Legion) on my Dark Iron alt and it was positively jumping like the early days of Legion.
Hell, even saw an equal mix of Horde and Alliance running around. And trade chat was pretty alive…with political sniping and pettiness, but hey it was alive at least.
That could be a different issue in a way. Since before we needed to go through these places, and now they are all but dead like classic/bc/wrath besides some random glam farmers running through.
Not sure if they will address it in some way like a moderate XP increase for them, to put them on par with the other xpacs. It doesn’t ENTIRELY bother me that they are sort’ve dead
but for people who do want others to play that with, it could be.
I can’t explain it. I know before I decided to start playing Horde, Stormwind was so laggy on Moonguard that you couldn’t even cast spells, or mount up. So the people are there… just, it seems, mostly in the cities.
I went legion. I’ve see so many people. More now than pre squish.
The quest from kadghar, where you have to get the chunk of the Naru… So many folks were coming into that underwater cave it was crazy. I haven’t see folks in there since the start of legion.
I even had a great time chatting with a shadow priest since our hearths were on CD. We chatted about all the folks streaming in and out. The new leveling experience. Helped others kill the giant.
It was nice seeing so many people. I’m still seeing tons as I quest through Legion content. My legion queue from a dungeon quest popped in less than 5 mins. That’s unheard of for dps!!
I am currently leveling a rogue. I have her in Outland. I love that I do not level out of an entire expansion before I’ve finished the first zone as I was before the patch. I have seen many other players in all the zones in Outland and we have even helped each other with the harder mobs to kill. I even had a horde help me kill a named mob as I was dying instead of just letting me die and tagging it for himself. Awesome! I wasn’t sure how I was going to like it but I am having a great time. The only drawback, imho, is the scaling has me taking as much time to kill a bird as it does to kill a named quest target.
Not to be a contrarian but I’ve had the opposite experience. While leveling my new priest I:
Ran into a ton of new and returning players.
Teamed up with or helped said players (tossed buffs, healed them if they were near death, et cetera.)
Talked to several folks about various things. One guy thought my mount was awesome and we had a little conversation on how to get it.
Ran dungeons when I was given quests to. This was the worst part of the leveling experience. I made a post about the appalling way folks were treating new players in these.
Actually played with the game sound on and paid attention to what I was doing in the world for the first time in 2 years.
I even ran into a new tank who had no idea how to do Shrine of the Storm and I walked the group through it while healing. I think the MC mechanic on the third boss should be removed honestly. It’s a lot for a new player to deal with. Fellow thanked me for the help at the end. It was pleasant. lol
Anyway, tangent aside, I had a mostly positive experience while leveling.
