Re-tuning the Early Leveling Experience - World of Warcraft News

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Re-tuning the Early Leveling Experience - World of Warcraft News

Blizzard devs have posted a short note in this week's hotfix update to World of Warcraft. In it, they explain that the 1-20 "low level" experience has been gradually being tuned over the last couple of weeks that add some modern conveniences to the earliest levels of the game and that the pace of combat has been adjusted.

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DKLond

They need to provide another kind of PvE for levelling. They should seriously consider having dynamic "Timeless Isle" systems in all zones - separate from the quests.

Yoofaloof

DMKano said:

I guess they are tuning it for the movie audience?

'dying in a low-level dungeon will see players respawn at the entrance rather than in a graveyard'

Brought this in because the cinema loos are usually adjacent to the screen and not a bus ride away.

Athisar

No coincidence that they recently admitted the levelling experience, especially low levels, was completely shit.

I hope that these changes aren't an answer to legacy servers. It does sound in line with pristine servers though.

Tekaelon

Ahhh fund memories of low level WoW. I didn't mind the quest,we weren't as jaded in those days. I enjoyed joining random groups, made a very good friend doing that. MMOs are changing but WoW did so much right.

Athisar

Gorwe said:

..."pristine servers"?

Blizzard's alternative to legacy servers, which are just the current game with lots of stuff introduced more recently disabled.

Albatroes

Lol I remember when magic mobs used to one shot people when WoD hit, that was hilarious. They honestly should've left it. To be on topic though, it sounds like the changes are just copying what rift does.

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Tokken

oh, I miss vanilla wow. The good old days....

FrodoFragins

Based on the title, I was ready to come in and say it's unnecessary due to how fast leveling is, but those changes are good.

gervaise1

Please come back we need you to pay down the debt we have taken on to buy King.

cronius77

i really bet blizzard you are going to be hard pressed to find a large number of people even remotely interested in leveling from 1-110. Your game is very old and most people who would be interested in playing wow have already done so. Part of the reason why people like the old expansion private servers is because we do not want to continue to forever level to 200 or 500. Its boring tedious and annoying.

RedMachine72

They are doing this for the movie crowd........period. Any past player, if they did not want to play for the area story in questing, would just get to 10, and then que for random dungeons. Did just that on 3 different servers with 12 alts and leveled without seeing outside of a dungeon until lvl 60. Then, it was faster to quest with being ready to pop into a random dungeon until cap. More people in the lower levels that were in que, at least in my experience there were.

Akumawraith

Disappointing, this is a low level nerf.. as if the low levels werent already op? Oh wait this is for the new players who are sucked in by the movie... Got it.. so now the loom geared players will go from OP to godly at low level and the regular new players will still feel under powered.

That out of the way. Legacy servers please.