They didn’t rebuild it, they used the vanilla data files and updated them for the Legion engine.
While they probably could use the updated files in retail easier now it would make Classic less of a draw.
I’d really like that as an option anyway to be honest.
Source on that please
I am curious to see how they pull the 10-50 in BfA, that is 40 levels in basically 3 zones versus 10-50 in Kalimdor / Eastern Kingdom
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What effect would that have on the progression you made in Shadowlands?
Being rescaled back to the power level of 50 won’t feel good because it would have to make you have the same power as you would through the normal levelling experience in 9.0.
Alternatively, you would have the same power level but scaling the new expansion content would be a challenge to ensure those levelling a fresh character may have lower powered gear.
Or Blizz have to rescale all gear every expansion which seems like to much work to do every expansion.
Then we end up in the same position as we are now where it takes forever to get into current content as the levels creep up.
I think the format makes sense but it’s balancing it with power levels so that current expansion progress still feels valuable between expansions.
Yes, but people are not going to like getting level squished every expansion. Compared to today I dont think another 20 levels would be that bad.
Not seen anyone against it so far but it’s not like it’s been officially proposed.
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I agree getting level squished may not be great. Depends how Blizzard handles player power.
That being said, to prevent the level cap and levelling experience becoming as long as it is now they probably will have to do a squish periodically. Maybe every other expansion. Then it happens roughly every 4 years.
1-10 newbie zone ,if you ar vet you can skip it and stat from 1-10 in starting zones /10 for allied races from 10-50 bfa for newbies,10-50 any other expansion for any othar chars.
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As long as they don’t do a repeat of BFA and have you feel like you’re getting weaker as you level up then things will generally be okay.
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I think it’ll be fine. Would still like Classic zones though.
Maybe we will still get them.
Blizzard seems to be quite focused on making old content relevant and enjoyable again and they do have a working version of those zones for their current engine. 
I think whole pull of exp from each expansion will be equal so let’s say from 10 to 50 is 10milions exp to gain, so if you choose cataclysm all quests from cata together will give 10millions, the same for bfa, leveling will be “uup to 70%” faster so no one will be bothered about advantages in leveling in BFA than in WotLK for example.
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That’s more an issue of the scaling tech as you level up vs the power of the rewards and how frequently you get them. In the grand scheme of things, this isn’t a big issue. The current gearing systems allow you to get gear to increase your power relatively quickly once you hit max level. Ultimately the content at the beginning of an expansion should be more challenging as you’re adventuring into a new and in theory more dangerous world.
The issue is your power relative to previous content which at 11.0 and beyond which would then be Shadowlands.
Do you get scaled back down to level 50 and all the Shadowlands content scaled to the level of all past expansions do once you hit 50 in 10.0 and finish your Chromie time levelling.
If so, does your player power then get scaled-down as well to be equivalent to someone of level 50?
This would not feel good as it could feel invalidating to any progress you made in Shadowlands and beyond.
On the other hand, you have the problem where 11.0, 12.0 and beyond increase the level cap. This results in the time to get to current content becomes too long making the experience poor again.
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