Personally i feel it should be in place until MOP release to allow anyone who is just joining Cata to catch up and for those of us still wanting to get alts to end game we havent had time to yet…
Bringing it back for a month at a time only to drop it again makes absolutely no sense at all.
I don’t have a hard opinion on whether it should be up or not, but I have quite a strong one on Blizzard’s communication of changes. Or complete lack thereof.
It sure should. And now when an expansion is on the way it’s even more a good idea.
So players can make some characters they want for mist of pandaria.
To be honest the xp buff should last until Mist get released. There is absolute no reason not to keep it going.
And if some players don’t want it, then just make it a toggle on and off.
They have released several raids and stuff over the last year.
And bring back the xp buff can maybe keep the game alive until Mist if people try new classes or so in the wait time.
Me included the only way i kill time atm is to make new characters and gear them up. So I welcome the xp again.
I have no interest in the new dungeons added now since the gear you farm will only last some month, so i feel its waste of time doing it. So I just try characters instead.
And a side note the gear tiers have come pretty fast, So use gold and enchant and stuff on 3 tiers of gear is expensive. So I stopped at firelands gear.
Cata+ levelling has always been pretty fast in my opinion.
Due to the compression of levels it feels a bit slow if you Loremaster, but if you proceed to Deepholm etc at the appropriate levels, you should progress well.
Earlier stuff is cut as well, basically you’re constrained by riding the easy-xp penalty, and-or stat deflation. (When as a mage you just can’t have enough crit because you keep leveling up and it goes down so much. And you keep doing stuff 5-10 levels below you, so you just get fraction xp anyway. JJ? It’s 7-12, you have even fewer stats, it’s not even faster.)
JJ was great for Classic-BC-WLK because those were designed for 4 hours a day, and plenty of grind, so cutting a third of it meant less zone hopping instead of massive skipping. But if you skip then you miss a lot of good gear, or simply slots.
I’m not playing Cata so whatever but if people can’t stomach its levelling then it’s really just M+ tourists doing a complicated Timewalking.