New players don’t have the classic levelling experience that even the worst private servers had.
New players or people who are just joining, anyone coming to wow in the last several months are experiencing a severely hindered experience, they probably will experience their first dungeon in their 50-60 levels as everything before is only available by pay to win boosting, Group quests maybe sooner. yes there is still an extremely small chance you could make a regular dungeon group.
I have been trying to find even 1 player to any elite quests with for over a week on my alt, i have had to ditch ever elite and group quest on my way to level 40 and the server supposedly has 5k people on it according to ironforgepro.
Before if you started a character at any point in progression, the world was functioning at least, you could find people to group with when it was obligatory.
My point is that this isn’t sustainable at all as new players have an even worse experience than ever, the game wont survive for long if the only people it can sustain is the people who spend their whole day playing, can pay for boosts on every server, know everything about the game and spend 1000 dollars on their fav classic streamer every month.
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No, cuz most Pservers have X ammount of leveling speed LOL XD
( just joking, but kinda serious )
You’re on the wrong server.
Leveled up a toon from 1-60 in the month of July. I had no issues getting groups as an Enhancement Shaman. Only missed Gnonegarden and RFD. Actually had to wait on a couple of times for quest mobs to respwan and did all the hinterlands elite quests.
Sounds like PvP server problems to me. If you’re going to roll on that ruleset you need to accept the collateral that comes with it.
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I wonder if people would even bother with alts if it wasn’t for boosting tbh.
This is my first Classic toon, I think i can count on one hand the amount of other players I’ve seen questing outside of the starter areas. Oh well, at least I’m not fighting for mobs with anyone.
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All the most popular private servers were x1.
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Your experience sounds exactly like low-pop realms nowadays. Check high-pop ones, it’s much better there, the only time you may struggle to find dungeon pugs is late night. And don’t trust realm list until you do your own research. To check realm population, create a scout character, /join LookingForGroup, /join world, run to capitals, use /who dungeonname.
It really depends on the realm. If you level now on Gehennas, its dead and only boosting.
But on Pyrewood leveling is so alive you still sometimes fight for quest mobs.
That may be, but MOST pservers have had some sort of adjustment to leveling speed.
Sorry but have to disagree about Gehannas. I have been levelling a druid and have had no problems getting groups. I get whispers all the time asking if I want to run stuff. Even have had to turn stuff down cos either already in group or no time. Also seen plenty of people lfm for elite quests as well.
Sure there are a ton of boosters but to say it’s only boosters is simply not true.
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It’s a fallacy to think that people who are paying for boosts would run normal dungeon runs if boosts weren’t a thing. In fact, most of them simply wouldn’t level at all.
Classic players are like elves in Middle-Earth, they only ever disappear, you hardly ever get a new one.
The game only has another 7 to 9 months to live anyway. Everyone will be on break once Naxx is cleared and TBC date announced.
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Absolutely agree with you OP.
I’ve been to Mograine/Ashbringer/Nethergarde and all of them had the same kind of leveling experience just like you described. And these are all different servers too, High pop, Medium pop, Low pop. And both PvP and PvE servers too.
It’s a real shame and definitely a problem the majority will experience, given perhaps a few exceptions.
Don’t mean to highjack but I made a thread on here recently petitioning as it were for new non-transferable realms to be released, starting from phase 1. Would love it if you could leave a quick supportive reply there as it ties in with what you’re saying so well: Fresh Realms needed - #46 by Buu-nethergarde-keep
I personally love leveling from 1-60, making friends along the way, doing dungeons and group quests, getting early raid attunements, ranking in PvP and so on and that experience is dwindling every day and is not even experienced by newcomers! A shame! Most of us have unsubbed by now.
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This is so annoying, all i play on is high pop servers, thats what my post was about, i tried out a 5k pop realm and it was the same experience.
I’m only saying that 100 servers with 10 people online are less relevant than 1 server with 10000 people online.
I’ve got 4 level 60s and guess how much I paid for boosts?that’s right 0 gold and I don’t quest much as well pretty much lvled up in dungeons.
The problem is players leveling only want to DPS and don’t bother to make their own groups. You should roll a tank and have someone like minded to roll a healer or befriend one and take the initiative and make your own party instead of just looking at the lfg channel. If you play druid or paladin or shaman you should be willing to fill any roll.if you play warrior you should be willing to tank if you play priest you should be willing to heal and this is regardless of spec. Rogues/hunters/warlock should befriend a tank or a heal class if planning to dungeon and mages have it easy aoe runs most groups want a mage for waters
Do / who in your level range for dungeon and throw them some whispers asking if they are interested you would be surprised how fast you can get a group timing as well doing it at peak raid time or early morning or late at night there is less people leveling alts
At the end of the day most players who pay for boost wouldn’t be doing dungeons anyways since they are the Min/maxers and would quest instead since it’s faster exp/hr than doing a dungeon
the problem is that warrior is the only tank for leveling and warrior dps is broken so they roll dps instead for leveling.
Where do you even get that notion that there is tons of “new players” for Classic?
Face it, Classic is not a modern game. It will not attract many true newbies anymore. Id say about 80-90% of its potential playerbase all started playing within 2019.
Blizzard absolutely will not keep classic if revenue falls, which will happen if what you are saying is true. I know so many retail players and non wow players who decided to start classic last year at launch, now its extremely hard for anyone to start a new level 1 on a new server. Classic cant survive on dipping into the same pool of people whos lives end when they hear of microtransations, which will come eventually and even faster if theres no stream of new players throwing their monthly sub at blizz.
your solution is for people to play something they dont like?
Not true Paladins can tank quite easy as long as they spec into consecrate druid can go bear form and tank no problem lower level content is easy enough regardless of spec
Stop pretending your servers is not dead when it comes to open world low level content!
Blizzard please grant us fresh realms, I would throw my money at the screen for it. And I know friends who would aswell
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