Anyone else find it such a slog to level 70-80?
For some reason, despite it being faster with warband xp, it feels far worse leveling than any other xpack.
Like, the scaling is so screwed that doing practically anything just feels like a chore.
There’s no motivation to do 5 “kill 15 of these guys” quests in a row when it takes 10+ minutes just to do one.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never had this much trouble finding motivation to max level characters before.
I have 5 at max level just to get the buff and know for sure I will level up a Dracthyr Warlock when the event starts on Tuesday. Apart from that I doubt I will level another toon through questing. The 4 alts I have leveled up to 80 have been through Delves and only the Delve quests. A couple of the have been through gathering materials. Just don’t feel like doing quests all over again.
I’m finding it pretty quick.
Explore, WQ, Events, T1 Delves (each one once while in a zone for the one-time quests) and gathering. I’m getting to 80 quite fast.
Most of my 70’s had an ilvl of 493-500+ coming into TWW, no idea if that makes a difference.
I think this plays a huge part in levelling alts, if it’s not there, it’s a pure slog, no matter how quick, imho.
same, I have a backlog of the prepatch gear.
personally I find it worse since the gear you get 70-74 is all but useless and I see it as nothing more than a waste for something that could have been useful later.
I feel they seriously screwed the gearing having it drop practically 100 ilvls like that.
I’m just turned off by the fact it’s like the same 8 dungeons over and over at tedium, and wish they’d have “Adventure Mode” unlock a limited 70-80 Chromie time option. Where you can do Chromie time and It’d come with same stipulations level syncing with someone in chromie time. Minus like the 90%ish exp reduction.
After the first couple months, I really don’t see a reason why this isn’t a thing.
As I also see the monotony of having to do the same areas over and over also contributes to leveling feeling like a slog.
Though it has always been like that, the new areas just don’t hold the same intrigue as say something like Pandaria after the first couple times. It’s missing a certain charm in my opinion.
Like, it’s so linear story based with the heavy focus on campaign, that it just loses luster going through it again and again.
Honestly I find it almost comically easy and fast.
if you’re questing to lvl AFTER having done the story line on one toon then you are leveling wrong. Dungeons and delves are much faster ways to do it. 70-80 in 3 hours just dungeon que’s and solo delves.
The only character that took a bit longer was my gathering toon. Leveled 70 to 80 gathering and killing rares, took about a week.
When you hit 79 that’s when it becomes a slog.
Yes.
Its not just the scaling I think, because I could actually get to max in shadowlands, but I couldnt in DF or TWW.
So I think part of it is flying being unlocked right away. Just the gameplay loop of flying to every objective is really lame.
And the new talent tree. It feels like homework. Talent trees are supposed to be fun to read and get excited about.
Not to mention the constant talking heads. The gimmeck quests. How linear it is. And how the scaling is totally off.
Yes. I’m just waiting for TW. I tried running a few delves but the xp is pretty bad.
It’s the pacing and how things are structured. If you play earlier expansions like Wrath of the Lich King, you’d notice that there is always a better structure to questing with a mixture of simple and a bit more complicated quest strings all acting together. For instance, Dragonblight is one of the best examples of how to do questing. And it helps that the environments look crisp and better than the bland environment we are in with TWW. Everything right now looks so sterile, so not only are the quests boring, even the narrative environment is putting me to sleep. The aesthetics have been off since Shadowlands and that is not a coincidence.
I find the leveling is better and faster than most other expansions. Im not even buying power leveling for alts like I did in dragonflight. Its fast.
To me it seems about average. First time through I did the campaign on my main, my alt I did half the campaign, follower dungeons and delves.
What I find is that with follower dungeons and delves I have a lot more for my main to do which means I’m not getting around to my other alts as much.
The scaling is almost non existent at your level. If you want to kill things faster use your dps specs
I hate leveling so, so much. The bulk of the game takes place after hitting max level so the entirety of leveling is just a complete waste of time. This is a hot take but leveling should be removed.
I’ve never taken that stance before but who enjoys leveling outside of the first little bit of an expansion release? If they switched up a bit and made decent gear harder to get but max level near instant I’d be down with that. Decent gear being like 550ilvl.
Then instead of grinding levels just to grind gear, we just get to grind gear while learning and working on our class before we’re high enough Ilvl to do real content with others.
Every single expansion’s gearing is based on the previous expansion’s questing greens. No one coming into the expansion after not playing the previous one (or after making a new character) is going to have that ilvl 528 DF gear or 480 Prepatch gear. They’re going to be in a mix of level 65-69 quest greens or so and be like ilvl 350 tops.
Crazy I find the 10-70 way more of a slog. I’m probably missing something after having “several” characters…
Leveling has already been cut back dramatically. Go back to Classic, create a new 'toon and try leveling through Vanillia, TBC, Wrath and through Cat. That was the game when it started. It took much of the expansion.
Today you go through leveling in a couple weeks, if that.