As of pre-patch I can no longer turn off my XP gains at the “Behsten” NPC in Stormwind. He has the exact same dialogue as before, but there is no option to turn off XP.
I’m trying to play through all questing at the appropriate level, so if I can’t freeze my xp my playthrough is essentially dead, please help.
Blizzard, reply to this. It’s clearly a bug, since before SL you allowed us to stay in Chromie time up to lvl 49. Why it should be different now?
I am having the same issue. I have reported it as a bug, I have also done some extensive testing, this is what I’ve discovered.
Either. Blizzard have forgotten to allow us at level 50-59 to disable our exp gains when they added Shadowlands to Chromie time.
OR it’s intended and has effectively ruined the way some people play the game.
My warrior pre-patch was capped at level 47 so I can go between all chromie times as well as using the group finder for all expansion packs, giving me a wide choice of the content that I do and access to all the dungeons so I can learn to tank in a proper environment.
After the patch, I turned on my experience because of Shadowlands being in Chromie time, I assumed the new ‘cap’ would be level 57. I did the pre-patch things, got to 57 went back to the experience eliminator who has no option to disable experience.
I then went on a level 48 character to see if they had the option to disable experience which they did, I took that same character and leveled it to 49 checked again and they could still disable experience.
That same character once it hit level 50 has lost all ability to disable their experience gains, thus rendering my idea of having a proper adventure with friends pointless and has ruined my gameplay experience for trying to play the game how I/we want.
It’s not a bug, Blizzard have turned it off.
Do you have confirmation about this? as I can’t find any official source anywhere.
I’m waiting for the same thing. I realised the day before Dragonflight launched that BFA had been bumped to 60. I’ve been wanting to finish the BFA campaign and unlock the races (without steamrolling everything), but the lack of experience eliminating stops this. I’m playing an alt until it’s fixed. Hopefully tomorrow at maintenance, because Dragonflight is really fun and I’d like to not delay it too long.
Hi there,
To shed light on earlier messages here this was indeed previously affected by a bug, which has since been corrected.
The current functionality is correct, where only characters level 59 and below can disable XP gains:
This is extremely annoying. A friend of mine has just activated 60 days of game time so we can play together again after a while away. I have Dragonflight but she does not. We were level 58 when we started playing this evening and both just hit 60 so I went to turn off my experience so we could continue to play Shadowlands together. Without this having been publicized, I now find that I cannot switch off my experience so we are no longer able to play together and her game time is now wasted. When we did something similar at level 50, it was no problem.
Bugs aren’t usually publicized, but it HAS been mentioned on these very forums quite a few times.
No, it’s not a bug. See the Blizzard post above. If it were a bug, it might get fixed.
This isn’t a new feature that needs to be publicized (it has already been so in the past). It was written here: “Experience points can no longer be disabled in current expansion content, only in previous expansions.”
If you were able to no longer progress beyond lvl50 in Shadowlands, it likely means you did not have SL purchased on the account (though I could be wrong about this).