Are you ok ? Im the first one who literally cried on the forums regarding the change. I been twinking 60s and 70s since WOTLK and beeing doing shiloads of PVP especially in Alterac Valley . Good memories vs IDDQD !
To be honest, I personally would not mind, but Cataclysm did an overhaul of old zones and that is part why many call it one of the of not the worst expansion (makes me kind of sad I liked it - probably because I did my first time raids in a nice guild).
Blizzard said they probably won’t do something simmilar and the update of old regions would kind of contradict this.
I don’t mind a level squish, in only fear it takes a lot of resources and produces nothing of value. And the expansion they implement it therefore lacks a lot of content
To be honest everything would be nice if we had some sort of portals accessing all old areas quests and farms, and if all raids where available at max level . IT Would add choice. Screw you and your BOD!!! icba jaina im gonna roll my AQ for the same ilvl gear. Or MEEEEH ICBA Bugs gonna clear black temple. Or it would be nice if we could access any raid with 5 ilvls lower than current tier for instance. hmmmhmhmmhmm
im sorry, but i do not understand how people still think that reducing the level amount will solve anything, hence i must repeat my previous statement. the only thing it will save is new players not looking at a 120 mountain, but that could be negated in other ways.
reducing the number of levels will not fix the issue, and with people at the very least split on this issue will make it more likely that Ion will push it. its already been mentioned somewhere that the amount of xp will be doubled, so the amount of time needed to get to the squished cap of 60 (or whatever it will be) and the current cap of 120 wont be much different.
this is just smoke and mirrors and slight of hand by Ion and co. i wish people would start realizing this in regards of the current development team.
a simple fix would be to just reduce the amount of xp needed from 1-120. but this wont solve everyones gripes. like some mentioned, running new allied races through events that “took place” years ago is just weird. and people are just bored with the zones as they have done them so many times.
there is no simple fix. and a lvl squish wont help. it will in fact make matters worse.
this as well actually. we basically have hillsbrad foothills whole zone (mostly) with “old Hillsbrad foothills” dungeon. they could have done the same with other areas. i miss an intact damn at the wetlands/loch modan border