Heck if it was little risk to the person getting carried, or leveling, then they should of just made it where the lower level person had to be within so many feet of the person carrying them? If the lowbie pulls, or aggros a mob=insta death usually. Seems like that would of been a better way to handle it than to nerf it to dust haha. And didn’t it used to be that way years ago? Even if you were in a group with same level people, if you got so far away, you received no xp at all? Idk just seems that would of been a better way to do it, instead of nerfing the fun folks have.
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Dumbledorf give ESO a try. You will NOT regret it. Totally free with full sub bennies this week.
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Unfortunately Blizzard will never go back on a change unless a high profile guild is involved like Method.
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I’m playing it Velara; I started a character there with the same name that I started one here 13+ years ago named “Bubbadaman” ; I’m only up to level 4 right now and have found out what it’s like to be branded a murder and a wanted man and got killed by the guards, LOL! I signed up for the 6 months subscription and log in daily if for nothing else but the daily rewards.
One thing that’s hindering me from playing so much is Christmas and it’s running here and there thing ya know, Also we were just told mid November that my Mother doesn’t have long to live; I left my company in 2014 to give her 24/7 care, me and the wife together; I have a deaf and moderately mentally challenged bi-polar sister that we also care for and I’m in the process of getting guardianship transferred from my Mother to me; Just too many things going on right now to get me immersed into a game but I will be there as soon as all of this passes as I will need an out if you know what I mean; Nothing like taking your frustrations out on NPC’s in a game, LOL!
Anyway I hope to see you soon there, I really like the content so far; Also I didn’t know but I bought “The Elder Scrolls IV” “Oblivion” “Collectors Edition” Years ago but never loaded it, I think I will keep it and maybe sell it years from now as it may increase in value.
Anyway look forward to talking to you soon!
Merry Christmas to all Christians; Happy Holidays to all others and hope that all have a Very Happy New Year Too!
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Bless you Dumbledorf, you certainly have your hands full. My very warmest wishes to you and your family.
Glad you’re playing ESO I use toon names as well. Let’s try to figure out how to exchange account names so we can group up!
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I appreciate the people saying the 8.1 “change” is just more of the same. I was waiting to see how this was,
You lost a veteran (2006) player and yes this is a really big deal to me. Leveling lowbie alts and grinding lowbie dungeons was the most enjoyment I got out of this game. I found it a really chill fun thing, not the end level grind
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EA is remastering Command & Conquer Tiberium Sun, and C&C Red Alert next year supposedly. If EA doesn’t screw it up, then that’s where I will be. They are getting some old Westwood Studios folks to help with the remaster:-). Hopefully if it does well, Generals will get a remaster also eventually. But ya I could see taking a very long hiatus(possibly permanent one) From warcraft, if they do.
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Holy crap its still going and they are still blowing us all off i just used a token to see about some of the new stuff it doesnt look like they have fixed the leveling xp or took any of the advice on the heirloom nerfs.
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8.1 did make some changes to leveling, here is how it works:
1-39 - XP cap raised (leveling slower)
40-60 - XP cap reduced up to 40%
60 - XP cap raised up to 40%
So more XP required for 39 levels, then up to 40% less maxing at 60 then up to 40% more XP required
Net gain? Don’t make me laugh.
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Is that really the change we got? Oof.
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Seems they just nuked another alternative way to level through their copy pasted rubbish quests recently hahaha. I used to fly guildies, and friends that play on other realms around to open up flight points, and they would get a decent amount of xp, because it was discovering areas on the map while helping them get the new fp’s. Guess that will be considered a bug, or exploit next, and they will nerf that out of existence also lol. This game is just frickin hilarious at this point. They will be wanting prison time next for the folks who would much rather level faster through their copy pasted rubbish pick up the poop quests lol.
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It’s almost as if Blizzard wants Warcraft to fail; They never take advice from their players; Just look at all of the great ideas within this thread alone and have they implemented any of them? No, They’re too proud to take suggestions from us the ones who pay to play; Also we pay their salaries; Vote with your wallet!
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Velara I can’t thank you enough for reintroducing me to ESO; I’m up to level 6 now and can see that I will become immensely involved for years into this game; The graphics are beautiful, leaves on trees actually look like leaves and when the winds blows it makes you feel as if you’re there in the game and the quests are simply unbelievable the way they carry the story, I’m just getting started and can already see how nice the players are to each other; No toxicity.
Mom has improved but I know it’s short lived but now we have help coming in mainly from Hospice; Those people are the best.
Hope to see you there soon!
Dumbeldorf
PS; I got me one of those globe homes all decorated up with the winter package and the big fireplace hearth inside; Nice having different homes you can decorate how you want; a little tricky getting used to the controls but well worth it.
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Awesome! I am super glad you found something you really enjoy. Everyone should have fun in their games. You especially because of all the stuff you have to deal with.
I will definitely look for you… we have to find some way to exchange account names so we can find each other… I will try to think of a way. Do you reuse toon names as your account name by chance? ESO account names are @name. If I can find you I will send you an in-game mail with some very cool addon info too…the game has a great bunch of 'em.
Not to mention, we can group up and play together! Another one of my very long time WoW friends (met in Vanilla) is joining the game too. Now this is a person who has transferred servers with us, played SWTOR STO NWO and every other game on earth with us. We could actually have our own dungeon group LOL.
Maybe we can aim for being online at the same time – me Pacific time.
I love the little snow globe house too. One addon called: Essential Housing Tools. which has a very steep learning curve (many video tutorials) makes housing decorating even better! I love how there is no limit on where you can place stuff/ I put a loft in my snow globe house, for instance.
Very happy holidays ![:heart:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/heart.png?v=6" ":heart:")
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You’ve heard they are on to 110 twinks now? Initially they were just going to kill them by turning their XP on. But it was such a garbage idea it died the same day. Thread, this forum. LOL LOL LOL.
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Welp. Under a week on my sub. Last 4 months have been free game time thanks to 2 ilvl 350 pieces and a really low token price at the time. I’ve barely played in the last month, thanks primarily to two bugs that have at least been fixed (looooong load times on chara select/server change and profession windows opening up causing the game to freeze for 1-2 seconds). But knowing I’m leaving, I just couldn’t get into anything, even going to do Tyrande’s quest line. I did the war campaign up to the time gate, and… I guess that’s it.
Zandalari Druids are kinda why I was interested in BfA, but I can’t be bothered to WQ anymore. I can’t. I unlocked DIDs/Mag’har and Pathfinder. I do not have it in me to grind any more world quests for rep.
Remember when reps were things you worked on at max level because they had neat things at certain thresholds? Remember when rep grinding wasn’t a required part of the endgame process if you wanted to fly? All the rep vendors are homogenized now, too. One cloak’s no different from another. There’s no decent way to earn gold anymore, but mount prices are so high that only the auction house barons can afford them, and alt leveling is just as unfriendly as it’s been since 7.3.5.
It’s just… depressing to me, seeing the game like this.
I started playing WoW in December, and I guess it’s been over 10 years ago now, though that’s strange to think about. Oklahoma’d had the nastiest ice storm I’d ever seen, and it basically shut down at least the entire NE corner of the state. No one had power, individual blades of grass were icicle’d up, almost every single tree had damage from the ice breaking limbs off. And to top it off, it happened one day after my grandfather died.
That’s a long and involved story, but the short version is one day he woke up in pain and asked for an ambulance. Stage 4 lung cancer. We aren’t sure how long it had been getting to him since he had dementia. Really just a one-two FU there. And it was like finding out what it was activated it and 4 weeks later he was gone. This was all in mid-December, and I wasn’t in a good place mentally, so I wanted something I could absorb myself into.
Downloaded the… what was it called, a ‘trial’ back in the day? Play free until L20 with a handful of restrictions? Made a dwarf paladin (still have him) and it didn’t take long to go out and buy the game+BC, where I made a Draenei Warrior, who I took as my Alliance main through BfA after not having seriously leveled or played as her since I returned to the game at the very end of WoD (mid-Cata was when I quit, I missed all of MoP).
And now… now I’ll probably only login once to get this year’s presents. Leveling alts sucks because dungeons suck because heirlooms suck. Dungeon mobs have too much health. It takes too long to run them for too little of a reward. But the alternative is nearly decade-old zone quests that I just don’t care about.
I haven’t really touched my Horde or Alliance mains since unlocking Pathfinder and the Allied Races. …But I also haven’t put much time into leveling those ARs. I just… don’t have it in me, y’know? I want leveling options, and Blizzard’s stripped away literally all of them. I want to feel stronger as I level, and scaling has utterly ruined that. I want reputations to be something you explored to find and start, with fun rewards that weren’t tied to fake-mandatory things (by which I mean flying and the unlocking of ARs).
I don’t want Classic. I just want a WoW that knows how to be fun. I want a WoW where leveling alts isn’t some daunting task that starts with a pause and a long, defeated sigh. I want a WoW where players have options back, both in leveling and max level content.
I want the WoW that helped me after my grandfather died. But that WoW doesn’t exist anymore. And it may never come back.
And if that’s the case, I might not either. And that’s such a depressing thought to have in this month for a number of reasons. ![:frowning:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/frowning.png?v=6" ":frowning:")
Godspeed to everyone sticking around. I’ll still be keeping up to date on news. If something dramatically changes, and heirlooms are restored to power, or legacy dungeons have their mob/boss HP reduced, or Sethrak become playable… I’m sure I’ll be back.
2018 has been so long. D’you guys even remember that we had an Olympics this year? We did. And everyone forgot. Hoping everyone has a good end of the year, whatever (or if) you celebrate, and that 2019 will see common sense and humbleness return to WoW’s dev team.
Let me have this as my Christmas miracle, Santa.
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Seems they have had a ton of garbage ideas over the last 6 years at least lol. Starting with crz, war on flight, out of whack scaling in many zones still, and nerfing fun constantly. The xp requirement nerfs in this latest patch while helpful, it still is very slow from around 35 to 60 now imo. 60 to 80 still have to try it out.
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Yeah I love the game, Still looking for a support site like Wowhead is, Just going to take a while.
I only have one character there named Bubbadaman which was the first name I started with in Warcraft, (Bubba-da-man)Up to level 8 now and still getting used to the controls (I’ve accidently killed some innocent people in the city by pressing my mouse buttons, Then caught by the guards before I could get to a “Fence” …. LOL)
We’ll get grouped up here soon I’m sure, Right now I’m just doing things alone if you know what I mean, I don’t want to be the guy who drags others down.
Hope you had a Very Merry Christmas & all your wishes come true!
Happy New Year To You & Yours!
PS: I’m in EST zone but usually stay up late.
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I sent you an in-game mail. When I’m on again I will send you a list of great addons… just served dinner for 20 and am dog tired …enjoy!
btw the great thing about world scaling is everyone is 50./160 so there is no “dragging down.” You can literally group with players of any level.
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WoW, That’s a lot of people, I cooked for 4 total and helped some neighbors and looked after Mom. I hope that you had enjoyment serving all of them; I miss our big family gettogethers… Sigh… When one parent goes that side seems to just scatter and we hardly ever hear from them much anymore.
What I meant by “dragging down” was mood wise; I’ll rebound pretty quickly once all of this is over; The worst part of all of this is the “Going Through It” but a month or so after I will come to realize that the suffering is over and they’re in a better place.
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