I started playing this year only and leveled an Alliance character to 70, now on my horde demon hunter, which is btw much more fun to play.
Anyways, am at level 60 right now and Legion content is absurdly easy, am done with all maps and even got my class mount.
I thought I’d start unlocking one of the allied races so switched to BFA questline, I didn’t expect to one-shot everything as I did in Broken Isles, however, I absolutely didn’t expect the difficulty level of content while I was questing, but then thought all will be worth it when I get my reward, to my surprise the item level is way lower than what my demon hunter has on.
I don’t recall facing the same while questing on Alliance, though that character started and reached level 60 in BFA only, never touched Legion there.
Am here asking if am doing this the wrong way, is my account bugged? I decided to leave BFA for now on the horde side and complete it on a fresh character, its much easier, but right now am not sure about other expansions.
Could someone explain how scaling works? Should I start a new character for each expansion? I hope it’s not the case…
BFA had me puzzeled as well.
I quit in Shadowlands, the alts I didn’t play in SL with had end patch BFA gear. As in: everything was trivial except for the later raids/mythic.
Came back with the trial offer (got 14 days, played 7 so far)… I find those well geared BFA alt characters struggling with content that was a breeze before. After I upgraded my heirlooms I notice the iLVL is double than the gear they got. The world quest, quests all give iLVL half of heirlooms.
Even garrison gear from Drainor gave better gear (epic lootboxes from table). So I was really puzzled.
Also, the BFA war campaign’s XP is treated as grey quests while normal BFA quests gave better XP (Green/Yellow coloured quests).
When I took one of them to Shadowlands I got surprised again. As both expansions are noted on my map: 10 to 60 for BFA and 50 to 60 for SL yet the experience is vastly different. You gain proper XP and gear in SL .
Some of the BFA stuff was properly spanking me, while when the expansion was relevant it did not.
I also did check Chromie and she didn’t offer a BFA campaign on those characters.
So I came away with the same view: is it broken, did they do a poor job of balancing (it wouldn’t be the first time) or did something go wrong with my characters when they did the lvl squish?
Not that I’m expecting them to be AS powerful as they were, but the difference feels a bit much.
after level 60, because you left the timewalking, zones start to have their own levels , bfa and shadowlands both have 60 i guess(not sure but it should be like that) that’s because shadowlands is the most recent one before df and bfa is kinda the base game now .
you can try to get get good gear like ilvl 310 to that 60 char but it won’t be easy anyway, so the best option is either leveling a new char in BFA timewalking to make it easier or level this to 70 and get some gear so you can 1-2 shot anything. legion is capped at level 45 when you’re out of timewalking so that’s way easier to do with a level 55 or 60
It is possible that some of the BFA stuff is poorly scaled, BFA dungeons at the beginning of DF were a slugfest because everything had too much HP and it looks like it was balanced around players having Azerite powers.
Did you check their current ilvl? Blizzard botched a lot of existing items when they changed the lvl/ilvl curve and a lot of old max level items were left with the old ilvl. The dungeon rewards for a level 50 are currently ilvl 155 I believe.
Yeah, looks like things are just all over the place with scaling.
I would have hoped they did better the 2nd time around… but nope.
Speaks volumes they forgot to tune the absence of Azerite at the beginning of DF. Same as with the Legion legendary powers.
that one isn’t hard but the requirements will be gone with 10.1.5 so it’s up to you . it won’t take long tho, kul tiran and mechagnomes are the hard ones, you can unlock dark iron in a few days but doing it on a 70 would be easier, you can start and use some of the quests for leveling and finish it after 70.
I am wondering if the achievement, recruitment quest line or the mount will be removed after 10.1.5 that’s I think might be better to unlock them before just to be on the safe side.
no they will all stay in the game , you just won’t need to do them to unlock the races, getting the mount that comes from completing both campaigns is almost like unlocking kul-tiran so if you’re gonna do that anyway you can do it now so it will feel more rewarding lol
If you are level 60 then the only place to level is dragonflight. That is where you go to level from 60 to 70.
New players are directed through BFA for their first character. The entire expansion scales from 10 to 59. Once you’ve done this with one character to 60, you can use Chromie levelling for your next character, you can choose any expansion or hop in between, just go back to Chromie and pick another timeline. Or you can level outside of Chromie time but will need to pay attention to the levels of the zones. The map should give you level ranges for each zone.
Allied races will be unlocked for everyone that hasn’t done their respective questline in the relatively near future. Next patch if i recall correctly. Which should go live at the end of this month or early next month.
WoW except the latest expansion is 100% entirely a complete mess. Every time I think it can’t get more confusing and broken I hear about something like this.
No OP, you’re not doing anything wrong. The game is just really weird.
I should point out to you as well that all allied races will be unlocked in next patch that is just a few weeks away, so unless you need it right now I would just wait.
I don’t want to interfere with the way you play the game but
if you want to be comfortable on open-world content, first level up to 70 (via dungeons or BG queues), go Valdrakken, buy some cheap gear (balanced on crit, haste, mastery and versatility) with high ilvl and turn back to the old content.
it will make it worthwhile.