I stopped playing at the beginning of Legion. It’s the longest break I’ve taken. I feel so lost. I’m on my Shaman and there’s so much I missed in Legion. I don’t have Legion flying or any exalted reps to get the new races. Can I even get my class mount or is that gone now? It feels so overwhelming coming back even after a year. My guild disbanded as well and my friends quit. So I don’t have people to play with.
Class mounts are still obtainable. Some rep grinds have been nerfed as has XP needed to level up. Just doing leveling quests will get you to the class mount chain and pretty far along into pathfinder.
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depends what playing style you’ve always liked, if you wish it was still vanilla wow again, this this is a golden age to return, but if you’re a casual expect to die a lot questing where everything everywhere attacks you, the respawn rates are so off the charts, some questing bosses will respawn the moment you kill it, making you die in the process, it’ll also take a long time to kill one mobs depending on class, gear no longer matters as blizzard has full control over what gear you have and what stats you get, not even leveling means anything anymore except to unlock questlines and expansion features, but if you don’t like grinding, i would stay away, this entire expansion is designed around grinding start at the start of the BFA expansion
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Hey! Good to see you’re still around! ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
I’ll go back and do a little bit here and there of Legion. I started BFA and the quests have me sucked in! It’s a lot better than I expected.
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This is simply not true. Gear with more stats (higher ilevel) will make it much easier to kill mobs out in the world once you are at 120.
I have been levelling multiple alts of varying class and while you do need to be a bit careful about how many mobs you pull and how you approach tougher rares levelling is really not that life threatening.
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except your stats don’t increase, it scales, and your power never increases in number value that gives you a sense of power increase and progression
Gear matters a lot once you get to 120.
Scaling means you don’t see a burst of improvement with new gear but I can assure you that a 110 starting with higher ilevel gear is still better off than a 110 wearing greens. And a toon who is wearing appropriate level blues and purples will have an easier time of it. Scaling smooths out the disparity but doesn’t entirely eliminate it.
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let me reassure you, that’s not how scaling mechanics works, blizz has progression designed now that everything is very slow paced to keep players busy, so if you get upgrades, you gain a level, the system automatically rescales your power value to remain the same with hidden values
I don’t know how the scaling works but I’m not having issues leveling through questing. Sure, if I pull a pack of 4 or 5 mobs I’m in trouble but I expect that lol.
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My observations are based on experience. I have leveled a number of toons through BfA now. Some were well geared at 110, some not. There is a difference in how well those toons were able to tackle the content that is related to their gear. It’s not clear to me what you are basing your assertions on. Based on the character you are posting on I am assuming you haven’t delved much into the game beyond leveling that toon.
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That’s a very incorrect statement.
You do not remain the same compared to mobs when you go up in item level.
Frankly it feels like a 1-to-1 scaling until you hit 330 and then whatever scaling the mobs get is inconsequential to your own power increase.
And that’s from the standpoint of a mage with no self heals and no damage resistance. For my Hunter and warlock, who had tank pets, I started crushing mobs at 325.
Once you unlock world quests at 120 gearing up and getting over that hump is extremely fast.
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As far as I’m aware, it’s only mob hitpoints that scale with gear level at 120. So all classes/specs should have an easier time surviving with better gear, as the mobs don’t hit any harder.
I know on my disc priest, my kill times don’t feel like they are getting noticeably faster, especially compared to the dps I see running around melting mobs. So, it does feel like the hit point scaling hits non-dps harder. I don’t have any dps at 120, so I don’t know how their survability gains compare, so healers and tanks may gain faster in survability with gear just because of how they scale. That could even it out. I know that I feel I can pull pretty fearlessly as disc.
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Hey there! I’m a returning player too (at the end of legion) and currently maining a shaman! Let me know if you ever have any questions or need some help or people to play with!
Discord:Rozn02#6693
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