Fwiw if you make a pre-made you can select a toggle to stop your group being thrown in a dungeon more than a few levels below your lowest level party member.
Plus there’s generally not much need to do the leveling roulette these days unless you’re on an alt class anyway, even then between palace of the dead, wandering trails, frontline daily, etc there’s ways around it. If you need tomes you’ll usually get more than enough from actual endgame content.
OT: A lot of these changes should’ve been in at 9.0. We screamed at Blizzard for the entire beta that XYZ was fubar, but they went ahead anyway. Then a patch and a half later (Nearly a full year lmao) they start addressing it.
We have done this song and dance at least three times, Legion, BfA and SLands. We give feedback, they ignore it, and don’t act on it until the expansion is half-way over. The cynic in me is starting to think they withhold changes until later patches to try and get people back in. But for me? I’m done.
At the earliest I’ll be back in 9.3.5 when inevitably everything is fixed, there’s no timegating, and you can get an alt raid ready in a reasonable timeframe.
For 10.0 I am definitely not coming back if they ignore feedback all over again. In the blue post it’s amazing how on one hand they give an excuse for why they ignored the feedback about cov swapping, then in the same breath confess they messed up about conduit energy.
Blizzard, you messed up on both. And we all know you weren’t planning this for narrative reasons, if you did you’d have done it for 9.1’s launch at minimum.
You’re doing this because there’s approx 2.6mill active characters at max level, with less than half of that having done a single M+ since the patch launched and a similar figure for people who’ve killed the first boss in the new raid compared to the last one.
Assuming a generous estimate of at least 1 max level alt per person, we’re looking at under 2 million active players at endgame. That’s abysmal. But it shouldn’t take a lawsuit and nosediving player counts to get changes done that were requested over a year ago (Accounting for beta).