Leveling is a core part of WoW. However, there is no reason for each expansion to add an entire range of 10 levels to wrestle through (for each character).
Leveling should be a one time thing per character. You get your character - you level it to 60. Bam. The end. You’ve gone through the experience. You’ve explored the zones. You’ve done the content. It was new, refreshing - fun.
There is no need to add 10 levels in a new expansion. Make the storyline mandatory. You do it once. You have the experience, the fun - without the chore of having to repeat the entire leveling process on your alts.
It would allow people to get their 12 (13) classes to max level and then just play the end game with them.
I like to switch classes. Personally, I feel like a lot of my time is wasted leveling each and every one of them - doing repeats of what I did before - instead of engaging in challenging end-game content.
Thank you for listening.
Kind regards,
Haywin
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Levelling goes insanely fast. Most of the time consuming things to do in WoW is the end game content.
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How would you handle legacy content like dungeons and raids?
A lot of players (myself included) enjoy going back and solo farming old dungeons and raid for achieves, mogs, mounts and pets.
Also those tougher zones like Argus or the Maw weren’t that much fun (for a lot of players, myself included) when current may be tolerable when you overpower them.
I use to like leveling, less keen on it lately, BFA and SL have really put me off. BFA had 3 zones that you pretty much had to do all of over and over and SL had four zones that you either had to do all over again or take Threads of Fate (good idea except for how slow and tedious it was due to lack of original content).
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Leveling has basically sucked for every single expansion except Legion because at least you had your artifact weapon to level up as well as your class hall campaign.
I remember both TBC beta and WTLK beta being horrified by how absolutely boring leveling was compared to Vanilla. TBC started the entire no-class fantasy and run here and do 5 quests, now run here and do 5 quests. Just completely mindless boring grind. WoW has a massive leveling issue, and they have only been able to address it for one single expansion.
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Id just be happy if Chromie time lasted until max level.
If you really want people to experience a new expansion then make it an acheivement to level 5 characters through it with the reward being the ability to level to max in ‘any’ expansion.
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Really? That hasn’t been the case for a very long time. You finish it in 3-4 days which is nothing compared to the other content which you have to farm daily and weekly.
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I love levelling the first time, the second is okay after that it’s just boring and lately I’ve not bothered half as much.
I think it’s great in Final Fantasy that you just level one character and they can be every class and profession, not alts needed. However I cant’ see Blizzard doing that.
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Me too. I love levelling in Pandaria and tend to do it on any new alts but have never yet finished it before Chromie time was done.
Also SL wasn’t that bad for levelling as there were 4 different paths for the different covenants. I’ve been trying to do all 4 but have run out of time.
Or at least that after you’ve levelled your first char through the new content that alts could choose TW option.
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For lots of people leveling alts is their game and they’re players just like anyone else, don’t think that should be taken away from them. That said, there could be options for people that simply do not like it to skip the process somehow or have more alternative methods of getting to the end-game more quickly.
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I liked how the Legion Invasions (with proper heirlooms) gave a little over one level per time. This gave a good boost to leveling alts. Doing the Order Hall campaign, a few invasions and a couple of quests to unlock some flight points etc would get you to max.
WoD also had those 15 minutes of 300% xp boost potions which you use to complete a bunch of bonus objectives and get to max in an hour.
Neither of these were there at the start of the expansio but came later and were a good way to get some max level alts. I wish they’d bring back something like this again.
Well if you mean in the sense of say ESO/GW2 where you get max level then it’s all account wide points into the extra system, yes I would like that. I am happy the rep is renown and accountwide.
leveling is so broken these days there really is no point in it being part of the game anymore…
they should take the game into the Gw2 formula at this point…
i used to love leveling in this game… but each expansion just chipped parts away which made it fun… and shadowlands put the stake through the heart.
Imo sl leveling is worst ever,that 50-60 part is slow and boring they should buff tw dungs xp by 100% or let us level in chromie time till 60
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I don’t agree with it as staying on the same lvl with new expansion would feel weird. Instead Id suggest new content mandatory only once and then you can lvl 60-70 lvl through time of chromie so It would never be repetitive
we already have something like this, if someone is too lazy to lvl a toon while lvling IS SO FAST, he can buy a lvl boost ,not to mention its free everytime you buy expansion
This. Once you did the current expansion’s storyline once, your alts should have access to Chromie time up until max level. The lack of variety (coupled with Shadowlands being a miserable experience in general) totally killed alt leveling in SL for me, I did it very slowly with my alts with herbalism and Timewalking, for the most part…
Yea its cool, but u level trough the same
Zones or dungeons in ffixv
Also it gets booring to be the same race on all jobs( classes)
Its the same thing, just that u have more classes that start higher level( as dk , dh in wow)
I would love it. I would never need to level another char ever.
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I hope they will give the option for players like you who would love this and maintain the other option for other people like me, who lile race diversity