Just came back to play the pre-patch content for Dragonflight and to my dismay the Winds of Wisdom buff is back and seemingly without a way to disable it.
Came here to see if anyone knows of a way, google was bringing up no results beyond a few Reddit threads here and there with people bickering amongst one another, like usual…
I do not wish to play with EXP buffs because it ruins the experience for me. I like to take my time leveling.
Then best bet is to play Classic or wait til launch when bonus is gone
The problem is I was hoping to casually saunter about a new character leading up to Dragonflight so that I would be ready by the time it goes live, instead of waiting until Dragonflight was live and fall behind dungeon groups which is inevitable if I wait until then.
The xp buff is too catch people up. Plus the 18% from the anniversary event.
Why people complain about slow leveing I do not know. 78% leveling buff is pretty good right now especially for the new combos.
Right, and as such it should be toggleable, not forced.
Does any of this stack with looms?
WoW players are notorious in complaining about anything and everything. Example? The OP and this thread.
Thank you for your input, albeit entirely irrelevant. You can have your buff, not everyone wishes to power level.
Believe it or not, not everyone finds fun in end-game. A lot of us prefer the leveling experience.
Its a lose lose situation for you, when the buff ends the exp needed is going take a dive to get to level 60.
You can turn off xp too…
Not the solution. Turning off EXP =/= normalizing EXP.
Then you’re gonna be REALLY upset when the second pre-patch hits on the 15th, because Blizz is nerfing the XP required to level. Certain level ranges (particularly 50-60) will be even faster to level than they are now with Winds of Wisdom.
You said you don’t want to do endgame so that’s the solution. Normal xp is fast too, but you want to go a bit slower? Turn of xp if you want to experience leveling the best and slowest possible? If you want to be ready for the expansion you’ll want to be level 60 which you are also trying to avoid?
What happens if you right click the anniversary buff?
Not necessarily a problem. It’ll just normalize 1-70 to being the same rate it was for 1-60.
Not what I said.
Normal EXP is normal EXP rate. It’s fast, sure - compared to prior expansions, but that’s not the point. I am in the market for the EXP rate the game currently has, even if it changes post- Phase 2 Dragonflight Pre-patch.
You’re confusing my want to level at a normal rate with wanting to be ready to play Dragonflight right away. I can get to 60 before Dragonflight is live without the help of the EXP buff.
Sadly nothing.
Then WoW isn’t the MMO for you buff or not.
Heirlooms don’t give bonus exp anymore. Haven’t for a while
I never thought I’d hear someone ask for this. But it’s not that hard of an ask. Even if it gets implemented via npc/gold similar to frozen xp, i.e. pay gold to slow xp instead of freeze it.
This seems like something Bliz could implement rather easily, at least on the surface. Giving players options, even seldom used options like this, would be great. Of course the easiest way would be to be able to right click the buff and turn it off.
Wow, did not know that, thanks! I didn’t wanna level too fast with this character so I didn’t use any when I came back to WoW a couple months ago.
Whether the game is for me or not is my choice and mine alone. Does not justify Blizzard’s decision to force an EXP buff on people when it is in the form of a buff in the first place. Who benefits from everyone being forced to level at the same pace? Nobody but the players that want it.
Blizzard totes around that they want people to experience the entire game in its entirety or most of it by the way they’ve changed the leveling experience with Chromie. This buff effectively negates that by allowing you to zip through content. Sure, they have the player’s best interest in mind by getting you ready for their newest and shiniest expansion, but it still doesn’t justify forcing someone to play at their pace and not the player’s own.
Conclusion here is that it’s not bad design to give players choice in something as trivial as a buff. If this were an included mechanic in say a quest chain, then by all means sure it’d make more sense. But as it is, it makes no sense.