As I've mentioned, when I resubbed for Cata I started over on a new server, new toon, leveling from scratch and really enjoying it so far.

Unfortunately, I'm leveling too fast!

I'm playing around with a lot of different things... using the RDF has been great fun, I've been queuing for AB, plus doing lots of quests waiting for the queues. By combining all this stuff, I'm leveling out of a lot of content I haven't gotten to yet. Gradually I started getting ahead of the quest chains. First a green quest here and there in my log, next thing I know, every single new quest I pick up is green, and some have turned grey while I was running around working on them!

I basically had to skip all of Arathi Highlands... as every quest I completed in Wetlands was green, and every mob I was asked to kill was 5-6 levels lower than me. I just skipped straight to Hinterlands.

Never got into Deadmines, and I never got some bracers in BFD that I wanted. I mean, I could go back and do that stuff now still, but its more fun when it means something.

It is better than running out of quests halfway through a level I suppose, but I almost wish they had an '/xp off' command like they have in DAoC now so I could slow things down a little bit on occasion.

I never got to do TBC heroics... I was still doing normals to grind rep and gear up for heroics when LK came out. BAM, everyone's in Northrend leveling all of a sudden, 2 levels in and half my raiding gear was replaced with quest greens. Now I feel like I'll level right past TBC heroics before I am even able to grind the rep... by grinding the rep to do a heroic i will actually level myself beyond the heroic I'm grinding for! I want to do them when I'm in my early 70's, when they're challenging, not come back and do them when I'm 80 or 85 and they're way too easy.

Anyone else experienced this? Does it slow down in the higher levels, or is it going to be like this right through to 80+?

 

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It's not a bad thing for replayability, though.
The next char you level will be able to go through the content you skipped on this one, making your leveling experience totally different.

 

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Yes that's true, and the fact I plan on making a tank next means I already have plans to do this... but that wouldn't solve the issue with the TBC heroics, because he'd theoretically level out of them before I'm able to grind the appropriate rep too.

 

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That is how it should be. This gives you options as to how you want to progress. MMO's are not a path from point A to point B, but rather a field to play in. This also means that if you like to level multiple toons, the next time through it'll be a different experience, again, as it should be.

 

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Go turn off your experience gain if you don't want to gain experience.

--Sly

 

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I can see that, yes, but what if I don't like to level multiple toons? I'm leaving out tons of content on the toon I want to experience it with.

That, and your point is only true for quests and things you can just do immediately, it doesn't alleviate the issue of leveling past content that requires pre-grinding, if you will, in order to access it. By taking the steps necessary to access the content, you're in fact leveling past it. Ack, what a conundrum!

Unless, did they remove the rep requirements for TBC heroics, or make it a LOT faster to gain access to them?

I agree that it's not totally a bad thing, I just kind of wish there was an option or ability to slow it down or turn it off, in the event I want to do so. I'm not saying they should tone it down for everybody, for those that want to level up fast to be with other max level friends, or those that like rolling multiple toons. I, at least this time through, would like to "stop and smell the roses" with this character more.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still having a blast. I do plan on rerolling, so the next time through I'll enjoy doing different content... like skipping Wetlands and doing all of Arathi Highlands, or maybe I'll level on Kalimdor (SP?) more than Eastern Kingdom.

It's just something I've noticed is all.

 

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Can you do that?

 

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Yes, it was an addition they made to basically separate the "twink" crowd.

 

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Well then nevermind... the whole discussion is moot.

I probably won't turn it off, at least not right now, but I'm very glad to know that I can!

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EDIT: I apologize for my naivety.

 

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Yep, but it didn't work though. Because twinks didn't really want to fight other twinks..they just wanted to roll over less geared people. Blizz made it so that if you queued with XP off, you'd only face other people with XP off, and since that consisted of about 3 people, BGs never popped for those people, and serious twinking more or less died and kind of morphed into heirloomed vs non-heirloomed.