Hi! It’s me, Kekmorg and I am here to tell you that this game is confusing for new player. I started WoW this week and you can read all about my journey on my earlier post. TLDR: I had 0 experience / knowledge of WoW when I started, went in with an open and adventurous mind. The world is huge, I had fun exploring until I started to 1 shot monsters for some reason. Also the game forced me to go to Zandalar and become some great champion despite being a complete noob. The system pressured me to level up in Zandalar and I chose Vol’dun which was depressing. I got the story in Vol’dun done to 5th chapter out of 7 when I reached level 48 and suddenly got a message that I need to travel to Shadowlands? The game doesn’t let me finish my Vol’dun journey but now only shows the quest “Shadowlands: A Chilling Summons” to learn about “my leaders’ fate”. I dont even know who the leaders of horde are. Zandalarian NPCs talked about “undead warchief”.
It’s like I am watching a movie and suddenly someone decides to switch the film…
Edit: Okay so I went to the NPC in Orgrimmar who showed me a cinematic. I don’t know who this burning man is. Looks like a bad guy but he talked like a good guy. Some evil angels descend from the sky to kidnap the alliance king and there is bunch of characters I assume I should know but I have no clue who they are. Or is that orc shown in the cinematic just random NPC?
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Sorry to hear you didn’t enjoy it.
Personally, I think the levelling experience pre-Shadowlands, when you started from Vanilla was best.
I think offering the ability for old players levelling new chars to start from BFA or other expansions should have been the way to do.
But new players should have to level the old school way.
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Yeah, I have no idea how the world of this game works. After the Exiles Reach I was sent to the Zandalar Empire and suddenly was some “Speaker of the Horde”. Now I have been sent to another realm completely(???)
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Want to switch brains? I’d love to start again and realise what the game is about before addiction got hold.
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You are delusional if you think WoW is addicting in any way in its current state. If you were a new player right now you’d shut the game down and uninstall after 5 minutes.
You wanna know how I know this and I am not making an assumption?
Because I am actually a gamer and don’t only play WoW 24/7. I am in several large Steam groups and have talked to people of all age ranges about WoW to understand if they ever tried it and why not if they did not. People who never tried WoW say that they googled it and did not like the look of it and other players who did try it say that it did not hook them.
The game was addicting 15 years ago when it had real game developers but please do keep telling yourself that EVERYONE IS CRAZY FOR WORLD OF WARCRAFT! 
For sure.
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But I told you the expansions to go trough in order last thread you made though :c You can still do that no?
At first the game felt interesting, now I am just lost and confused as the game is forcing me to go certain path instead of going for an adventure. I liked my exploration of Ashenvale and Mount Hyjal and would like to know more about those locations. At the moment the game really doesnt feel to be worth of the money.
Hence why I asked to swtch brains…so I could play new NOW and quit instead of getting addicted 15 years ago…
OP have you considered trying out classic TBC? There you can lvl up uninterrupted.
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The problem is that the game is simply huge. There is like 27 years worth of lore, and 17 years worth of this game alone. It’s not easy to satisfy both long term players/fans, and new people. WoW is definitely a game where you need someone who’s already playing it helping you.
It is unfortunate, but I wouldn’t entirely blame Blizzard. A game of this scale, that’s heavily based and dependent on lore, is difficult to manage. Sure, the game could lead you through all the expansions normally, but you’d spend months just going through the story. There is simply no way to give almost 30 years of lore to a new person in a short, or gameplay-wise pleasant way.
I dont mind spending time to get to know the game. Someone in-game told me that there is some “time”-mode which allows you to play any of the expansions you want to but you need 50 level character to unlock it and once you are 50 you cannot use it? So I cannot do any of the previous expansion dungeons with my warrior? What’s the idea of blocking the content? I have 6 battle for azeroth dungeons and I assume I get the Shadowlands dungeons next.
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You don’t, but if you told 100 new players “Yeah, you can play WoW, but first you need to play several months worth of quests because of story”, I guarantee you, 98 of them would quit.
You can still do all of the quests in all of the expansions past 50. In fact, there even is a meta-achievement for completing all the story chapters in all the zones in the entire world, the Loremaster achievement. At any point you can go to any of the old zones and complete all the quests there. Granted, they don’t scale anymore and you will be one-shotting stuff, but story-wise it doesn’t really matter.
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What? …What?! Someone confirm?! New players can’t catch up to our story even if they wanted too. Without going trough some retcon mess first?
Its not even optional?
It was called Chromie time and I cannot use it because I dont have 50 level character. At least up to 48 I was doing only battle for azeroth dungeons and was told that I cannot do the other expansion dungeons with others.
OP WoW is not a game for new players. The game literally forced you to skip all expansions rush to max level.
If you care about having fun and going through expansions in the right order play FFXIV. In FFXIV you get a main story quest that automatically takes you through the expansions in the right order and new players LOVE it. The story is also so good that spoiling it will literally get you banned.
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Thats like asking someone to read the return of the king first. Before they are allowed to read the fellowship of the ring.
Or saying you’d have to watch the rise of skywalker. Before your allowed to watch the Phantom manace. What the heck
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That’s the game’s way of telling you that you are becoming powerful/highlevel for this content, but you can still continue with the adventure learning about the zones and the story from where you are.
You can, but it will become a solo one-shotting experience and all loot will be lowlevel. Also you need to actually travel to the instance portals, no more queueing and automatic zoning.
So the only social aspect in this game is the dungeons and raids of current expansion?
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So we have here a new player confused of our worlds Lore… He cannot go trough our story before he beats the game and becomes Max level. And only then. It becomes optional if he is especially interested… And instead of making new players a new catch up scenario or instance like exiles reach to catch them up on the story and our events… (Witch don’t even do that come to think of it… Lmao)
We have some Cast away movie scenario instead that explains literally nothing. And those interested can just well who knows? What can they do? Dwelve into Wowpedia for hours I guess?
This is Dog poop… Even for Blizz.
My Dissapointment is immeasurable and my night is ruined. ‘‘Flips Vulpera table’’
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