I remember Rolling my first char, doing the worgen starting zone and then dungeoning forever while jumping from zones to zones and expansion to expansion. Never completed an expansion I didn’t play.
Then why do you call WoD leveling the worst if you’ve never actively leveled in it?
I meant leveling as a brand new player during wod, which I did. And it was boring, the invasion events started right before I got to the wod part so I just did invasion and skipped wod all together.
Honestly I can recommend all the new players to level in WoD, I feel it’s probably the best experience you can have in terms of leveling. The zones are all unique, the garrison is very cool for a little while, especially since the process of leveling won’t be very long. I think it might not be the absolute best leveling experience for everyone, but the worst? Really?
I really have to disagree with you. I played WoW back in WOTLK and then came back to playing it now (like a few month ago) so I got the whole ‘level through it all’ experience. (That WOTLK stuff is just for context - does not rly matter.)
Honestly, it is not great, and does no justice to anything at all. It was a rush, I couldnt get anything done in any world at all, I couldnt experience any stories, and it just felt like a rush, hopping from one place in a huge world to another.
If I got it correctly, their philosophy behind all of that is to let players experience a whole ‘continent’ (yes, broken isles et. al. are continents in that context 
), except for new players, which have to do BFA which honestly makes sense because it is relevant to the storyline.
I leveled through WOD and Legion (and the others things, which I rly did not caure about because I leveled so fast by doing LFD that it merely meant anything). My thoughts: Well, guess Gul’Dan opened a portal, then the Legion attacked, then the war was somehow won. I have NO IDEA what actually went on, and the only reason I feel like I am not completly lost is due to me having played a lot of warcraft 3 back then (i.e I know warcraft lore overall - but new players have no clue who that mad-gone orc named Guld’Dan is and miss even more context).
I feel like people just say the way it is now would do justice because they actually experienced the whole storys and thus the ‘story holes’ are not as apparent to them.
Oof, that was quite a rant, sorry for the long post
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As a new player I think it is a great idea, takes away a lot of mess the current game has, and can serve as a great way to let new players experience WoW lore.
Again I am not talking about leveling IN wod but DURING wod, sorry if it was missed in translation, I am not a native English speaker.
Oh you meant the process of leveling from 1-100, misunderstood my bad.
And see, in 1 year, they can’t. New people MUST level to 50 in BfA. To many considered one of the worst wow expansions. Heck I don’t currently have a maxed character. Can I still level in the old zones, or must I max it first?
No problems.
I don’t understand it either, I think bfa leveling is a snorefest too.
I think the individual zones are nice, that’s the overarching story that is meh.
They only really need one shard’s worth of people to be there. CRZ/Sharding will plonk them all in together. We on the other hand will be spread all over many expansions and I have no idea if it’s going to improve us actually seeing other players. A lot of the time while levelling you see one maybe two people along the way.
If someone is RAFing a new playing they will be doing BfA if they like it or not 
Providing they are a decent friend who plays with them. I know some just RAF and abandon.
Seems strange to inflict such random cruelty on new players. I mean, I could understand if if they had to level through TBC or Wrath, but forcing them to level through the worst expansion to date? For 40 levels? Why not just stick up a sign asking them to quit while you’re at it?
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its the most modern expansion. And you are not going to be delving deeply into heart of azeroth or azerite gear before you are capped out. And BFA is relevant to the story in SL.
Not to forget that you get a good start on unlocking the BFA allied races. Ztroll dinodruids and vulpera is going to draw a lot of interest on horde side.
And I quite enjoyed the story, which I thought was a high point. Drustvar is joy to play through on alliance.
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they should wipe out tbc its no longer even lore relevant they retconned that expansion out of existence with the illidan novel 
if you do that expansion and try to compare it with the novel you’ll go huh
You’re overestimating how well known WoW is especially in the younger generations
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That’s actually a very good point! Though I suspect BFA instances will still be included in LFG and that’s all you really need other people in the world for lols
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Dont forget the BFA allied races, they will be a strong draw for newcomers to level up in BFA.
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Indeed it’s beneficial for the Allied race grind too. Although they will have to go back to Legion if they want to unlock the other two.
They can see it on their future alts after they have gone through BFA, otherwise they will have zero idea what is going on in Shadowlands.
Besides: the older expansions are all over the place content wise and have very distant ties to what is current.