Why Old Expansions Should Scale to Max Level — A Huge Opportunity for WoW’s Future

[Padgarre-lightbringer (Padgarre)]

I agree in theory that reusing some of those old zones could be fun if relevant to the current expansion.

[Holdmypug-stormrage]

@Hethiss-shuhalo

You may not want more but others do. We might have more players if veteran players were happy.

So you want to force YOUR preference on everyone else? You’re in the 1% bracket dude.

[Quenya-shadow-council (Quenya)]

@Meridyth-proudmoore

As long as its optional.

This. because I don’t want it to be a life or death fight when I go looking for peacebloom.

[Hethiss-shuhalo]

@Holdmypug-stormrage

So you want to force YOUR preference on everyone else? You’re in the 1% bracket dude.

If it were optional, I’m not forcing you to play it. It’s easy enough to create a setting that toggles world scaling.

[Holdmypug-stormrage]

@Hethiss-shuhalo

If it were optional, I’m not forcing you to play it. It’s easy enough to create a setting that toggles world scaling.

Well that’s not what you requested in your OP. IF it’s optional, then I don’t care. But we know Blizzard doesn’t do options. So no, I don’t want things to change. The majority of players are casuals who enjoy going back to get the missing pieces of mog, pets and mounts. I don’t need to have to group up and compete every time I want to farm something.

[Christtel-stormrage]

Never gonna happen. Its a nightmare to balance 20 years of content for a minimal gain.

I like going back and oneshotthing everything.

Timewalkimg should be expanded that I can agree, more raids/dungeons more frequently

[Voljambu-wyrmrest-accord]

@Holdmypug-stormrage

Well that’s not what you requested in your OP. IF it’s optional, then I don’t care. But we know Blizzard doesn’t do options. So no, I don’t want things to change. The majority of players are casuals who enjoy going back to get the missing pieces of mog, pets and mounts. I don’t need to have to group up and compete every time I want to farm something.

If it’s optional, then why are you still trying to prevent scaling? The whole point of an optional setting is that you don’t have to use it.

[Holdmypug-stormrage]

@Voljambu-wyrmrest-accord

If it’s optional, then why are you still trying to prevent scaling? The whole point of an optional setting is that you don’t have to use it.

Like I said “Blizzard doesn’t do options”.

[Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast]

If Blizzard gave out the option, no one but the diehards would ever turn it on. I know I despise scaling in all forms because it makes getting new gear into treading water instead of actually getting stronger and being able to show it.

[Kazethera-llane]

Even a game with scaling like SWTOR still lets the PC eventually outrun a lot of the content.

Games that make leveling a treadmill instead of a road… lots of running, never getting anywhere… are boring. Might as well not even have leveling if the content just immediately negates what you gained.

[Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast]

It’s why I prefer Diablo II versus III by a mile; that Unique in II is going to make you amazing, and it’s possible to actually get and keep gear that’s supposed to feel meaningful. In III, Legendaries get outsized by common magic items by the dozen.

Scaling systems are never fun because they’re an inherent attempt to defeat the idea of progressing in power, keeping the player constantly in check.

[Voljambu-wyrmrest-accord]

@Holdmypug-stormrage

Like I said “Blizzard doesn’t do options”.

Are you Blizzard? It’s kind of goofy when players act like they know what the developers will or won’t do. People doubted player housing would ever happen, and it did. Cataclysm’s world revamp was huge, and they pulled that off too.

[Paeldryth-hyjal (Paeldryth)]

@Hethiss-shuhalo

Old zones are mostly empty because there’s no incentive to go to them. The world needs to feel alive again.

Making every zone relevant would just mean every zone feels empty because of how spread out people would be.

[Annastasi-proudmoore]

@Hethiss-shuhalo

I think old expansions should fully scaled for max level players.

no thanks. when I want to go back to old content to farm stuff, old achievements, qeusts I missed, etc, I don’t want it to be a strugglebus.

I enjoy one shotting things in old content.

[Zelestriana-wyrmrest-accord]

@Vhesha-illidan

China is doing a similar thing

Then go live in China.

@Holdmypug-stormrage

I like going back to complete my collection or “get my revenge” on a boss that wiped the team over and over. I enjoy watching them get one-shot. Stop trying to make everything trivial. Not everyone wants to be a sweaty Andy in this game.

The OP know that if everything scaled to max level a lot of players would simply walk away from the game. This is nothing more than a troll thread.

1. Scaling Zones would make RP’ing out in world difficult if not impossible.

2. What OP is proposing would effectively and permanently put an end to transmog, pet and mount farming.

@Hethiss-shuhalo

Would you buy a new game if most of the enemies were easy, died in one hit, and only a small portion of the game was actually relevant?

Yes.

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

If Blizzard gave out the option, no one but the diehards would ever turn it on

This. And We all know that instead of admitting to making a mistake and backing down from it Blizzard prefers to double down on their mistakes and tells themselves “This time the players will like it” . Then they get a surprised pikachu look on their faces when players get angrier.

[Arandi-moon-guard (Arandi)]

@Hethiss-shuhalo

zones, raids, dungeons, stories, world bosses, and systems that many players never revisit once they out-level them

I believe a LOT of players revisit these once they outlevel them. Particularly dungeons and raids for transmog.

@Hethiss-shuhalo

I think old expansions should fully scaled for max level players.

No, thank you.

@Hethiss-shuhalo

It is not fun to one shot everything in old zones.

For you, maybe. For me, it’s a blast.

@Hethiss-shuhalo

The world needs to feel alive again.

Feels fine to me..

[Voljambu-wyrmrest-accord]

@Modguud-benediction

I think this would be a great idea and opens up a ton of fun possibilities like BiS items being gathered from multiple expansions. I’m always a fan of horizontal progression over vertical.

Absolutely! Scaling old zones for max-level players would be amazing, and if you combine that with housing, it could completely change how people interact with the world. Right now, old zones feel like empty museums—beautiful, but largely irrelevant once you hit max level. If they were scaled, suddenly every corner of Azeroth could feel alive again, full of meaningful challenges, rare spawns, and dynamic events. Players would have real incentives to explore old zones, not just rush through them. Old quests could reward housing decorations and relevant gear.

[Anvilshield-sisters-of-elune]

@Hethiss-shuhalo

I think old expansions should fully scaled for max level players.

If it is a toggle option like Heroic mode in Remix, sure. But I am not interested in fighting for my life in Elwynn Forest while farming Turkeys for an event.

[Vhesha-illidan]

Go live in china? What is wrong with you mentally dude lol.

[Voljambu-wyrmrest-accord]

@Vhesha-illidan

Go live in china? What is wrong with you mentally dude lol.

He’s just trying to shut down an idea he doesn’t agree with by using bad logic.