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To say the oldworld content isn't phased shows you haven't played through it. It is VERY much phased.

 

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I've seen some quests phased, but the content isn't phased to the point that I can't bounce around if I want. I hear much of Cata is phased to the point where you can't progress without completing certain quests in order.

I've skipped entire zones already that I didn't even want to skip, simply because I outleveled the quests there.

 

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All it does is give you an illusion that you have options. In the end you're <insert max level here> and you have very limited options.

 

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Some zones aren't as heavily phased as others, but there is plenty of it to be sure.. I know when the pre cata patch came out with the world changes, I played my Mage and did Swamp Of Sorrows. There was plenty of phasing there, as you completed the "war between 2 towns" quest line, as you completed more quests, you gained ground on the town and eventually took it over.

note* This was from alliance side perspective.

 

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So, the town is "intended" to be taken over by Alliance, but if you didn't complete the quest line, you'd be constantly phasing into a town in conflict? If you complete the quest line and take over the town, is the town you're now entering not a phase anymore, and just part of the rest of the zone?

Maybe I haven't been part of, or finished, a phased quest line that had such a visible change on the real world yet. I understand the concept of phasing, but I'm still a little confused about the effect it has on the old world that will cause it to be so "fragmented" as Arc puts it. I haven't noticed any fragmentation really, can you provide an example maybe?

EDIT: I'm only up to level 40 on the new cata toon so far, alliance. I've quested in Dun Morogh, Loch Modan, Wetlands, teeny weeny portion of Arathi Highlands, Alterac Mountains, and now I'm in Western Plaguelands (about to go to Eastern). Andorhal is about the only large phase I've noticed so far and I'm not certain I've completed the whole chain yet. I JUST fought Scholo or whatever where the Horde/Alliance generals had some agreement to withdraw, for now.

 

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By fragmented, I mean you're going to be missing out on harvesting nodes, flight paths and even some quest NPC's if you don't do every single quest in the game. There are going to be areas of the world that change drastically depending on if you're 14m away or 15m away.

Phasing is possibly the most cataclysmic immersion destroyer we've ever seen in an MMO.

 

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I like the word choice...

 

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Roll a DK and do the starter quests, that is what is meant by phasing.

 

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