So you are saying this bug was since the beginning of WoW? We were powerleveling in dungeons back in vanilla. This had nothing to do with scaling other than the fact that the experience went up a bit higher than it was before scaling… So, in fact, you didn’t fix the bug you removed power leveling completely and say you fixed a bug with scaling.
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Well this put the nail in the coffin for me; Blizzard snuck this in with patch 7.3.5 without our knowledge intentionally stopping us from power leveling which we had done for the past 13 years; They finally admitted it; They’ve lost my total trust in them.
And for what? So they could promote $60.00 boosts and make leveling take longer for the ones that didn’t buy a boost thus earning more off our subscription time by making it take us longer to level.
This XP reduction they claim to be coming out with in patch 8.1 will be only a drop in the bucket of what was taken from us; Blizzard’s motto; When Fun Is Detected Make It Less Fun And More Tedious For Us Their Paying Customers.
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I guess they better get busy getting rid of that bugged video on youtube lol that shows a guild from one of the most populated pve realms in this game which I will not call out,power leveling their guildies through wod dungeons back in October of 2017. A few months before 7.3.5 was released. Believe it was also a month, or two before the patch was even in ptr if I remember correctly. Anyhow just another one of many vids out there on the interwebz proving the bug is a lie lol.
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Yep plenty of videos out there showing that this has been going on for the past 13 years and in 7.3.5 Blizzard decides to slide this in with the patch; Now we know it was intentional.
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Well this does it for me; If you can’t trust the company that you pay for their services then it’s time to move on. It only took them from Feb 14 when Blizzard themselves started this thread and now we find out they themselves admitted to nerfing the XP when a higher level ran lower levels through dungeons something they knew that had been going on for 13+ years.
Not cool Blizz!
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Exactly. Even if it was a glitch with scaling that caused the xp to get messed up, they didn’t need to nerf it 90%. Was the xp reward for raf a bug also that deserved a 300% nerf, after it had been that way for the longest time? Funny how all of these xp nerfs, and heirloom stat nerfs coincided with allied races being added to the game. Cant wait for the inevitable bug that is going to happen when this xp change goes live in the next patch lol. Uh oh they are leveling a little to fast, I guess we better get the bug spray haha.
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Yep get the bug bombs ready and be prepared for more speed bumps in the dungeons!
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There was actually a nerf to heirlooms in the form of an overall power squish. It was mostly significant at the lower levels though where you would be getting 4-5 of each secondary stat at level 1 and scaling from there which was completely unproportionate to the items around that level.
You now start off with just base stats on each item until it reaches a point where it’s appropriate to start gaining secondary stats.
The strength is still mostly in the scaling like you said, however it’s much easier now to find a blue drop that will be providing a larger stat allocation to you than your heirlooms.
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There was a nerf of level 1 heirlooms, their was also a nerf of both heirlooms and blues at 70. Heirlooms are also bugged at 96.
Blues are supposed to be better then heirlooms. They told us that back in wotlk.
But the meme that there was some overall massive nerf at all levels is just that a meme.
The biggest factor slowing levelling is the increased hp of mobs.
I’m reminded of Ion during one of his Q & A’s where he said it was never their intent,; One song comes to mind from the Eagles where they sing “You Can’t Hide Your Lying Eyes”.
I will NEVER trust anything from Blizzard or Activision ever again nor will I recommend them to anyone!
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I haven’t recommended this game since they fully implemented crz when mop went live. I know they were testing it in the last patch of cata(4.3 I believe). But they went full throttle with it in mop. That alone drove many of my friends away from the game, because it literally destroyed any kind of realm identities. Their war on flight, and all these leveling nerfs are also big reasons I could never give this game a good recommendation. But ya I tell friends to stay the frick away from it, if they happen to ask now.
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[quote=“Mate-proudmoore, post:4617, topic:18747”]
Blues are supposed to be better then heirlooms. They told us that back in wotlk.
[/quote] You have a link for that? From what I remember them saying heirlooms were supposed to be on par with dungeon item level blues.
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On par. Which when you factor in the experience boost means you have to take points from elsewhere to make up for it.
I meant stat(power) wise. Experience boost has nothing to do with how powerful they are dps wise. Also would like to see a link to what that person said.
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[quote=“Mate-proudmoore, post:4617, topic:18747”]
Blues are supposed to be better then heirlooms. They told us that back in wotlk.
[/quote] Who is this us you speak of? First heirloom I got was the cloth shoulder pvp loom from a wintergrasp vendor. Never saw, or heard them say that.
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Us= General discussion, No i don’t have a link, its been 10 years, It was in a thread complaining that heirlooms where too good.
Bingo! Nailed it! We are adding allied races with the heritage armor carrot on a stick, so we better nerf leveling, so they cant get it to quickly, and we will say it was a bug hahaha.
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Blizzard had this planned way back before this thread was even started; Heck I’d be willing to bet that this thread Blizzard themselves started was a decoy to distract us from the very fact that they knew we would be having to level these new races and so they nerfed everything they could to pad their pockets even more and then started this thread proclaiming a “BUG” to deter us from what they were actually doing.
This thread was nothing more than a containment thread for those to vent and to keep other threads from popping up.
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No, way, because you are suggesting to slow down xp with less power to make up for the xp gain overly silly.
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What the eff… ![:roll_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=6" ":roll_eyes:")
That blue’s response is probably one of the most cringe worthy ones I’ve ever seen on any of the different incarnations of the forums…
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