I don’t know if this was announced or expected, but Warlords of Draenor and Legion content were silently squished to 40 level cap this week.
Was this expected? Is it now not viable to run old content before Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands to reach Level 70? If so, why is this the case?
What happened to running any content you like throughout the journey exactly? If this is going to be the case, then why are we selecting a timeline?
This completely ruined one of my characters which I was planning to level up specifically through Legion content and I was doing this exactly up until today.
It’s funny, because this is right after I opened a topic about timeline selection problems and how it affects the newcomer experience.
This isn’t great that upstream doesn’t allow end-user to run content as they like and limit them to recent content when it should obviously be all content up until the current.
It is absolutely pointless.
Edit: The broken aspect of this half-thought process is that these “low-level quests” actually grant viable loot for the character level, because stats are still generated for the character level.
I’m baffled. This isn’t a smart decision at all, it’s just an unnecessary limitation.
i dont know if this is indeed something they have just done today but i have always hated that a certain level everything just doesnt scale anymore forcing you to cureent content. Why cant i level 1-70 or even 80 wherever I want to?
This is why I came back after seven years, to actually try out different expansions with some level of challenge.
Just yesterday I was fighting in Stormheim, doing everything I can to manage against groups of enemies, now I just one shot everything, because scaling is gone. Everything is level 40 and I’m level 50.
This is a deal-breaker for me, because I specifically created characters to run specific expansions.
WoD has been Level 40 for ages. At Level 45 you can one shot heroic dungeons in WoD. I assume you go to Chromie and get the area upgraded to give the extra level difficulty or maybe use the bulletin boards or what ever they are called. If you go to WoD cold by simply flying to Blasted and taking the first quest in front of the portal WoD will be Level 40.
I didn’t know timeline selection had this effect at all. Somehow I wasn’t considered in Legion timeline despite never getting out of Broken Isles.
After reading your post, I went back to Chromie and reactivated the Legion timeline.
I had no idea this was supposed to be the case, I thought timeline selection was just a quest starter and didn’t affect the leveling experience at all.