50% xp buff oversight?

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When the game becomes fun again? Maybe you don’t like levelling, which says to me you don’t like MMORPGs - unless you only want to play end game, if that’s the case you still have to level because that’s the game.

Alts are second class citizens, an after thought. The buff just showed how lazy and wanting of things easy some people are. So what you don’t have an alt. Honestly, reading these posts and realising they’re actually serious makes me lose faith in humanity, and there’s no lack of that going around.

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I’m fine with you not having a wotlk alt, I’d prefer that over re implementing the 50% bonus.

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Easy way to shut this down.

This is the WOTLK experience, this is what it was like when it came, this is what classic players want. If you want insta leveling, Dungeon Finder, Raid Finder, Transmog, Store Mounts etc etc etc go play retail.

this is what Classic players want, people on the forum screaming about “EVERYONE WANTS LEVEL BOOST AND RFD”, no we don’t, you are the VERY LOUD minority.

You level up, you get to 80, you get marks, you use them to buy Heirlooms, level 70 Flying and send them to your alts to level faster the second time around.

I work full time, I am only level 74 on my main, this is what I loved about classic, I can take my time, things are slow, others are in the same situation and we will all level up together. You don’t need to be one of the players rushing to 80 asap who just dungeons spams… I am litrally doing every quest in every zone to level up, only doing DGs for quests.

Don’t bring everything classic players think ruined the game back into it here.
Don’t like WOTLK? don’t play it…

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so tired of these blizzard fanboy clowns parroting anything stupid someone says without an ounce of thought

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And I will be confused as to how you think this is somehow a fanboy move? I pretty much hate every decision Blizzard have made in the passed 10 or so years. Not just on wow but pretty much every project they have going.

I just want to play the version of the game that came out in 2008, the version of the game I and so many others enjoyed.

Most peoples issues with exp rates is just wanting to level quickly and get to the end game, they want to get in and out of content as fast as they can. And hey, if you want to find a way to speed run it, sure go ahead, just dont advocate for change so you can speed it up.

I and many others enjoy slower leveling. We go to different quest zones each time, sometimes we do more dungeons, sometimes we level purely through questing, sometimes we do the daily PvP quest for a bit of extra exp. We take our time and enjoy it.

It is just a clear example that if rushing end game content if your gig, Retail wow as it is right now is designed around that, it even has the 50% exp increase right now so you could DG spam your way to 2 max level characters in one day of playing without breaking a sweat.

Also, so many people feel the need to rush to 80 just because some people are doing it, but that is the beauty of the old expacs, you want to rush it? You can, want to take it slow? Go right ahead!

Even more so, the fast levelling and character boosts are opening the door for high level bots to easily break into the economy. That’s why so many people where upset over the boosts being added in TBC and Wrath, sure it is one per account, but botters can make 100s or 1000s of dollars off each bot, spending $40 to get into end game content straight away makes it easy for them. Remember all the level 58s in boosted green gear farming the Primal Elements and Primal Shadows? They controlled the farming spots on high populations servers from day 1. Faster leveling aids this as well.

Sorry if people who want to play Wrath as it was don’t like the idea of exp boosts and increases and are just getting fed up with seeing people asking for it. Retail wow seems to have everything these guys are looking for, not my cup of tea at all, but if rushing to the end game is your thing seems like a perfect match.

and don’t get me wrong, I don’t think wrath was perfect, and I am ok with a lot of the QoL features being introduced early, like No dismounting in water. That is just removing annoying things that should have been there in vanilla. But it is a damn sight better than what retail offers and many of us want it kept that way.

Simple thing is, if see a game in a store, look at it and don’t like the mechanics, you just don’t buy it. But with an MMO suddenly people will pay for it, buy the special edition then just complain they dont like it. This thread is about levelling speed, the levelling speed is the same it was at launch. So if you don’t like the game, why not just, idk, not pay for it?

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Its removed so that people left behind or who fidnt knew about the buff- can acces the final leveling method to wotlk- credit card boost

There u go!

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You’re trying to say what Classic players want, whilst also saying if you want Dungeon Finder go to retail. Dungeon Finder is part of WOTLK, there is no arguing it, denying it or justifying it’s existence. It has to be added when it should be, that is CLASSIC. If it isn’t, then this isn’t WOTLK. Very plain, and very simple.

The exact same reason is used for RDF to be added. You don’t need to be one of those players - I’m not - but the ones who do can do that if they want.

WHAT?! As a staunch Classic player, I expect the game to be ruined for myself as it was at the time. It’s happening again, and that’s what I want, as a CLASSIC player. Edit: Screw the xp buff btw, it’s nonsense.

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Firstly, yes this is a thread about the 50% exp increase, me mentioning everything else was just to add to the fact that fast/instant leveling is all part of the retail eco system.

Secondly, It just the opinion of many people that systems like RDF be kept out of the classic eco system, for all and any expansion released under it.

Yes blizzard have already screwed it up with additional changes and this terrible LFG tool. I advocate for that to be removed not for more things to be added.

With the right set of changes, even a Cata classic could be successful, in my eyes that includes the removal of all built in group finder tools, as well as many other things. Adding in RDF now means it is in the eco system for classic forever, I want to keep that out and push back against the already made changes.

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if you don’t care about exp gains yourself, then you should not be bothered, if the rest of the people get rdf back.

You can always slack behind questing, wasting time somewhere like walking on foot to dungeons and back and organizing your own groups in chat/guild/friends.

RDF is not stopping anyone from doing this

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I could sit here and point out the same issues with that argument I’ve already done on every other post you are crying in. You keep repeating yourself in your little echo chamber and Blizzard uphold the promise they made to us. No RDF was part of their marketing scheme. They aint gunna change that now, and if they do they owe a lot of people a refund.

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Hello! For me levelling IS the game. When I have no XP bar any longer, I roll a new toon :wink:
We’re all different and have different definitions of fun, and this is the Nice thing about WoW Classic, that you can play it in so many different ways :smiley:

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It is, but it is part of WOTLK for those things to happen - not all ofc, only things that were there at the time.

For me, those players are not Classic players. Classic players want things as they were to every reasonable extent.

I myself certainly don’t want it in the game right now, but I’d want it added at the stage it was supposed to be. Cata Classic can’t be Cata without the things it had also.

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That take is fair enough, all I will say though is, Cata Classic will need some changes to survive. So many things where wrong with that expansion that lead to the huge decrease in sub numbers.

Though most of the issue with Cata was unfinished content, rush raids, DGs and questing zones and Dragon Soul might be the worst raids in wow history. But hey if that fix some of that stuff Im on board.

But I wont ever be a fan of automated grouping. It feels against the spirit of an MMO and focuses more in “Doing things quick” rather than just enjoying being part of a fantasy world.

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Agreed. That’d real good.

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there will be no cata classic because if they don’t add rdf, wotlk will be dead within two months, following the fate of tbc

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Because tbc had no players after 2 months? Really now please go back and look at how it actually looked after 2 months, or even after 6 months and you will see that tbc was far from dead.

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