I really like the new levelling experience, being able to pick your own expansion is fantastic and a stroke of genius.
But FORCING Dragonflight on your at Level 60 is just a terrible time. The Dragon Isles are confusing to navigate and filled with constant map icons. I just simply do not care for that experience.
Can Blizzard consider allowing people to do whatever content they want to max level and make the experience one that the player can craft with their own preferences themselves?
I am not a fan of Blizzard modern quest and map design so it would be nice to level through areas that had space again, like Northrend and Outland. (The Broken Isles and Shadowlands were exactly the same, too clustered together with mobs and no exploration really needed).
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Iâm confused what you are going to do after you have finished before Legion, then. Maybe you would be happier on Classic. Or do you enjoy the end game activities still?
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wow. i found the last 10 levels bein the best and fastest level experience. I guess is all about POV: bein here since 2007 make me sick of every expansion so DF levelling (actually with 5 toons) is refreshing and new.
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Upon entering an expansion there ought to be a prompt to do âstorylineâ or âcatch upâ, itâs those âcatch upâ quests that stack over each other making the flow of questing completely out of whack.
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Yes they want you to play the latest version always, go back and watch some old Blizzcons, their reasoning is fully explained as to why they force players into the latest content theyâve spent years and mounds of your cash to develop.
It makes sense to level in the latest expansion especially for your first character. You need to do the campaign to unlock things for your account. After that you can vary your journey.
Wow always makes you level the last bit in the latest expansion. Iâm not sure if theyâll ever change that. Itâs a request we see come up so now and then particularly if people are bored with levelling there repeatedly.
As for the quest markers, they were updated to try and show players what is important and what isnât.
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I enjoyed levelling my DK alt in BfA recently, the painful part is getting it through DF as Iâve levelled lots of alts 60-70 and I canât face the story lines again. The SL alt levelling experience was better, wish there had been something similar in DF.
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These are things that will be useless as soon as âThe War Withinâ or âThe Dark Belowâ (Itâs original name) comes out. Thatâs the cycle of expansions, I really do not care because dragonriding is a gimmick (why not just use a flying mount that doesnât get tired?) and half the things in the expansion become useless as soon as the next expansion comes out (Remember Azerite).
I had a great time playing 1-60 as a returning player but 60-70 has been unbearable because I just do not care about this side-quest with dragons. Shadowlands was the same way and I never bothered to play that the whole way through because I found the concept rather dull and one note.
Yeah, all expansions should be scaled 1 - 70. Do whatever expansion you want or whatever gear you want to get. Seems to work great in ESO, why not in WoW? I honestly hate how everyone is pushed into BFA, rather than allowed the choice of going werever they want. All old zones are dead, nobody questing or doing anything.
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the skip was the best part of sl honestly shame they removed it 
If they allow this.
youâll have to do the entire of DF at level 70, because u will be locked out of everything? Lol its the current expansion.
Well, everyone should be given the choice. Its up to them if they want to run trough DF at max level or not. A warning could be given that things will be locked out and thats all. FFXIV allows you different cities to start, why not make that a choice instead. Starting in the old world or being spoonfed tutorials in BFA.
FFXIV still makes you do the latest expansion for last set of levels? lol.
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FFXIV also has a more streamlined story. You canât simply skip without paying and it makes you feel more involved in the world. I honestly donât have any idea where the story have gone in WoW, thanks to being pushed past all the old content.
They need to streamline the story of WoW. Doesnât help either that all the expansions are a jumbled mess in Chromies list rather than just sorted.
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It doesnât have to be that way.
It wasnât that way back in the Glory Days of WoW, when there were far more players, with the numbers going up every year.
It wasnât even that way in Warlords of Draenor. For the first time, there was a clear consecutive storyline running through the zones, but it didnât lock anyone out of endgame.
Through Legion, then BfA, this single storyline hardened to rigidity, and found its final form in Shadowlands. No longer could we adventurers find our own way through the lands, the people, the content. Now we were on an assembly line.
And we are still on that rigid, straight-line path in Dragonflight. 
It is not good.
Letâs face it, the monolithic story isnât that great. I always liked the little stories and the disparate characters we met around the zones. This forced march, not so much.
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I just finished levelling an old alt from 37 - 70.
I can say that levelling upto 60 went smoothly and took 2 hours, levelling from 60-70 took nearly a day.
That felt really bad, because the BFA dungeons were much more fun than the DF ones.
no instead theyâre gonna make dragonflight the base experience lol
Dragon Riding (with other mounts) is moving forward with us into the next expansion. I personally prefer a good slow flapper as the speedy riding makes me feel nauseous.
Ofc every new expansion supercedes the old. It is no longer the current expansion. The end game will shift to the new one. New things will be introduced to us. Some things move with us. This has been the cycle of WoW since the beginning.
Even if Blizz were to allow any timeline levelling to cap I still think theyâd make your main/first character unlock the new expansion requirements first. Nearly everything in DF for alts is dependent on your main having done it once.
Personally I love brand new shiney content, the first time is awesome. Second time is okay but after that Iâm just looking at any fast levelling route. TW dungeon events are usually really good. Although I helped a friend and accompanied him on my main, we blasted through regular levelling dungeons in DF and got him to cap in a day.
I totally get that people want to vary their journeys. Personally Iâm so bored of all the older levelling zones having done them so many times but people are all different. Iâve done every expansion while it was current. Each to their own!
Agree that levelling should include old content. Just done Twilight Highlands with an alt. Region is 30 to 35. Really enjoyed the quests including watching Alexsrasza fight Deathwing, but by the time I got to the fight through the Grim Batol gorge the quests were grey. Shame, but I finished it anyway,
I havnât played WoW in like 2 years, completely missed Shadowlands, got no idea who the characters are in Dragonflight or what their background is. If you are a returning player or someone who just started, everything is a confusing mess.
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