Blizzard has a dilemma. Back in 2007 there was just one WoW, so it was what it was. With classic, they had WoW classic, a separate game for those who wants the vanilla game. The leveling is of course completely integral to vanilla, so no discussion.
But what to do about those who genuinely want to replay their favourite expansion TBC, but not Vanilla? It’s not optimal game design to have people do 150 hours they aren’t interested in, before they can even enter the game they actually want.
Won’t affect me, I’m old school and boost would feel cheap. I even only have one account. But to each their own. Their preferences won’t hurt me.
But I do see the point of the boost option for the “specifically tbc” group of players. Doubt they are a lot, but I do see the point. And they won’t pollute anything, that’s just silly.
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The moment you stop hiding on a alt is the moment I start taking you seriously
That’s the other thing of course.
1-60 quests in Azeroth = boring, rubbish, horrible, hate every second.
58-70 quests in Outland = brilliant, engaging, immersive, must-see content that I love more than life itself.
KIlling 40 boars in Westfall = worst thing ever
Killing 40 worgs in Terrokar = can’t wait!
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I was gonna say!
Questing in TBC is pretty much the same as Classic, just a different environment
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And what do you bet that a bunch of those people who are saying that they need the boost because ‘vanilla levelling is horrible’, buy the boost and level up by paying gold to AFK/autofollow behind someone running Hellfire Ramparts over and over and over again?
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Not entirely true.
The quests might be the same (kill/collect/click/explore/escort/dungeon), the way we do this can’t be more different than in Vanilla/Classic.
Now (Classic) switching between multiple zones to get a few levels is common. For example: reach lvl 20, do some Redridge intro quests, go to Wetlands to level up there, go back to Redridge for the Elite quests. Or Darkshore as another example. Multiple variatons of this too, not linear at all.
Or an NPC in IF/SW asks you to get an item across the world. The run to get to Hillsbrad…
Quest hubs. A few maybe? Thorium point, Booty Bay spring to mind. Not that much really.
In TBC questing is way more streamlined. Quest hubs are everywhere and will direct you to the next one.
Is questing better in TBC? Now that’s not the point and is different for each and every one. I personally think it is, but it’s a fact that questing in TBC is much better designed.
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You ignore the social/outside elements to questing though.
Questing in outlands zones will be a lot harder/painful for new players because there will be hundreds of full naxx geared people ganking them all around, there will be unbelievably more competition for quest mobs/nodes and whatnot, massive lag, crashes/8-10+ hour long queues etc. Also if you played TBC, you’d know that many outland quests are designed very poorly for crowded environments, like collecting felhunter poo, netherwing eggs, super long respawn timers on some mobs etc.
It will be much much more unwelcoming to new players to quest/level in TBC zones. If they can’t stand questing in azeroth I doubt they will love questing in outlands.
Again, it is a question of longevity, patience and determination. These are expected qualities for an MMORPG player, specifically. If they don’t have these, they are not MMORPG players and designing the game according to them wouldn’t help the game in any way or shape.
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So there’s less travel time in Outland? That’s the gist of your post.
OK, yes there’s less travel time. But I still maintain that someone who hates killing 40 boars in Westfall will not enjoy killing 40 worgs in Terokkar any better.
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People against the boost cannot understand simple phrase like
“People want to play with their friends in TBC not to killing kobolds at 12 while their friends are doing ramparts”
The “BBBBUT THE ARGENTINIAN BOTS” is a straw man at its finest because you implying that 99% of the Boost will be used on Bots while, will not be.
The problem are the BOTS not the BOOST
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So why cant you play with your friends now?
Start now and you be 60 by the time TBC hits.
No excuses
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Not everybody are interested in Classic? People want to play TBC because was the game they played back in the days and felt in love with? They are not interested in levelling in Classic?
Isn’t hard to understand.
It’s not hard to understand but it is hard to agree with for some.
Well sorry but how did you get to TBC back in 2007?
This isn’t 2007 and no matter how much people complain, the boost will be in the game.
Edit: If you don’t like it vote with your quitting.
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But this is meant to be a recreation of classic therefore people should level how it was back then.
I mean there’s even a reroll project going ahead. Now is a great time to level for TBC
What does this even mean?
Not everybody that played TBC started with Vanilla, plenty of people started to play with TBC because was the game of the moment/hype/whatever.
It is a quite different to “played 1-70 with the bois back in 2007” vs “my friends played classic, i didnt care, and now that TBC is coming out i want to play with them and viceversa”
It’s not meant to be a carbon copy. If you don’t want to play the game with a boost in then that’s fine, but complaining about it being in the game will not remove it.
I’m not saying it’s not and I will probably be in that reroll. Some just don’t want to level another character through Classic. Even with the TBC XP gain increase.
And you still had to level from 1…
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You cannot recreate which you already experienced.
People need to get over it, we already saw in Classic with the “raid difficulty”
You had to level from 1 in a NEVER PLAYED game, no really?
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The thing about bots is that they will just bot to 60 if there is no boost, in fact most of them are already at 60, imo. It will take them longer if they started at 1 and Blizzard still won’t ban them.
But why would they start at 1 since they will already be farm botting with their 60s. remember the TBCC realms are not fresh realms, just an update of current realms.