i used to love making alts, making a fresh-faced new character, and leveling them up with a class or spec i don’t really play, or have’nt tried… but… i don’t really do that anymore cause the leveling is so… simple.
the new leveling changes are good, they get you to higher-end content faster, but at the same time… it feels like something’s missing from the game now. something important, and i can’t put my finger on it.
i thought about rolling an alt, making a new character, having fun… but then i remembered ‘oh yeah… i’d just have to get to level 10, and about 85% of the game would be available to me from the get-go.’ and i lost interest.
i mean, what’s the point of leveling up, if you can go pretty-much anywhere without much restriction?
just… i dunno you guys the game just does’nt feel ‘right’ anymore… like the soul of it has been pulled out. but hey, that’s just my opinion.
There are not many pointless rental systems bogging down the play experience in older content. Chromie time and barbershop customization changes really breathed a second wind into me with WoW! Imagine if BlizZard didn’t break their promise of continued customizations with systemlands…
Id never level a newbie to 120, lol. Ever again.
I love the new shorter, easier leveling because it means I can go do all that side crap I missed and still level pretty quick, not having to dedicate every moment to leveling a character that I could earn a college degree in less time, lol.
if you want to it to take longer, theres always the option of turning off experience thru some of the content, I guess. Or just turning it off at 49 like I do and running the content till youre tired of it.
Its called ‘end game’ …‘current content’.
When youre in a race the finish line is the goal. Thats where you want to be.
With WoW right now the finish line is in the middle of a deep stinky swamp, so why would you want to even bother finishing the race, let alone try to win it.
“Oh man, I’ll have a choice of where I want to play and what content to do? Laaaame.”
The thought of having to go through that 60-80 stretch in BC/WotLK was enough to keep me away from most alts. It’s been very nice being able to level one in a consistent setting.
god I LOVE being able to just outright skip content I dont like, lol.
What we have now is fantastic for that…I can run allthe stuff I do enjoy and ignore the stuff I dont.
I love being able to do mists content, then jump over to classic content, then maybe some WoD or legion.
I dont know how anyone would prefer doing the way it was before over what we have now.
^ So much that. That is why I laugh when people always bring up BC and Wrath as the best etc. Yeah, when it was current it was fun because it was new and I made some good memories with the people I played for those 2 expansions, but fact of the matter is, they are 2 of the most boring expansions to level in. I would rush out of those as fast as I could. Having choices now where I can probably skip those 2 expansions (if not then I should have to do too much from either one).
You do realize you can still do that right? Just go through each zone by expansion then. Problem solved.
it’s not the choice that’s the problem it’s that it won’t really feel impactful to go there. like, i remember going to northrend for the first time, and being amazed at the new places, and how there were’nt low-level players in dalaran. it’s not the option, it’s the… ‘mystique’ being missing from the zones, y’know?
well, not a sense of wonder per-se, it’s more… a sense of earning. like, i’d feel that i earned the right/strength-required to be in those zones. now it’s just… not that.
