I’m put off bringing my alts to Shadowlands not because of the renown, not because of the leveling or the general alt unfriendliness but because of the SL intro. It’s soooooooo mind numbingly boring. Obviously 9.1 hasn’t introduced an intro skip while I’m pretty sure Legion and BFA both had skips by now.
Why hasn’t Sl had one when the others have. Even WoD has one (of sorts) is there some reasoning behind it?.
been asking for months but ive a feeling itll never happen. Theyre so proud of maw (for some unknown reason) that theyll force you to do it over and over.
Its stupid but thats blizzard for you these days
I just want to know the reasoning behind it, there honestly doesn’t seem to be one. Blizz have even reduced the exp you get from it,so what’s the point of being forced to run it now you get less from it.
And it is going to get even worse
probably someone high in the ranks had the idea of inventing the maw, so now the maw is a godsend untouchable feature that must be pushed to most players as possible as it is a good idea by definition, no matter what.
According to Icy Vein chars at 50 doing the escape the Maw get less XP now so its even worse .
They are just trying to make us quit now or what? I didnt mind the maw, it was fast xp just dreadully boring, but this?? oh well i wasnt planning on leveling alts in SL anyways.
What do you expect from a small indie company like Blizzard?
The XP it gave was the only reason why I could think of that they were not implementing a skip. So much for that reasoning now.
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Hopefully this gets fixed soon, but for the time being I guess I won’t be doing any alt levelling!
Just checked it out on my DK and the Maw quests that would normally be granting 7,700 exp are giving between 500-800 instead. Apparently the exp gains are now so low that you can’t get anywhere close to hitting level 51 and picking up the Bastion intro quest, but I’ve not had the guts to hand any quests in and test this! 
It’s also slightly disappointing, but sadly not unexpected, that this wasn’t picked up on before the patch went live.
Just a reminder that with Worgen being able to mount in the maw it proved Paws > Maws.
Also yes, there should be a skip. I regret doing it on some alts to get covenant powers but then I ended up really not playing SL anyways.
I think “Paws > Maws” is possibly my favourite thing I have ever read on these forums 
No promised skip added and reduced EXP now too.
And I still seemingly can’t craft a rank 5 legend with my crafting saying 4 is still the max, wow.
you can access the zone at 48 though so it’s possibly not as bad
This expac is becoming more and more unfriendly as time goes on 
I guess not even the testers felt like going there. 
I…uh…
What in the name of flying spaghetti monster is blizzard doing with SL 
I think more and more i will skip SL completely…
The maw intro is a joke vs the 30 dungeons you need to 50-60
Maw intro give good xp
i don’t understand this problem