Ok I’ll give it few more try.
The solutions you are refering are basically “ignore power levelers, play the game as you want, there is nothing you can do about it unless you find another server”.
Then when something pisses players off they just have to ignore it ? Sounds like a great solutions for everything.
Our locked servers has been dying recently ? Just ignore it.
Bots destroying ingame economy ? Just ignore it.
Endless queue time ? Just ignore it.
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I can’t ignore the fact that I can barely run low level content because of power levelers. I can’t ignore the fact asking for people to run low level content normally turned out to be a “weird thing”. It’s actually making me sad. No one said Classic leveling was supposed to be quick and a whole new experience everytime.
If some don’t have time or aren’t patient enough to run the same content over and over (because they have decided to reroll their 10th character…), aren’t they playing the wrong game ? Should they have stop the game before getting bored of this ? I mean…working hard in Classic it’s part of the deal, no ?
I’m not a #nochanger whatsoever but…didn’t we all sign for a Vanilla experience ? If the new players mindset is actually changing the game dramatically well…let’s find effective solutions to keep the game has is supposed to be. Power Leveling everywhere ? How about we forbid players to run dungeons with HL players ? Strange nobody actually think about this so far.
Yes some will complain about this, “…my freedom blabla…” and will probably quit the game…until they will come back later because they will realise that leveling normally with others isn’t a big deal. Because it really isn’t.
“There is nothing you can do about it”. Opening a thread is a start.
“Find a new server”. Nope, because PL is also a thing on others french servers. And I feel confortable playing amongst french speaking players (and not a small community lost in a foreign server).
“You can’t make others play as YOU want”. They can’t force players to give up on playing the game normally and switch to another server to do so as well. Because what they are doing is actually changing the game balance, do you agree ?
Are we already doing a “go to Retail” thing ? Hope not because no need for Blizz to make the game more Retail-flavoured, players are already doing it themselves. Power leveling (or “easy mode” if you prefer) has become an ingame industry, it’s hard to escape it. And because of this the zones are quite empty, some players can barely quest and spend most of their leveling time as loners (on a MMO…). I’m simply asking to make Classic…more Classic.