Enjoy the journey?

Then play a few diferent alts and do all the journeys available to you. That is how the game has been redesigned now...

 

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60-70 in Outlands = 2 hours a level of pure questing.

70-80 in Northrend = 2 hours a level of pure questing.

It's not so bad with the reductions now. Pretty sure each level after 70 only goes up 12k XP each.

 

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Not nearly that fast for me on my dwarf mage - I'm 36 and /played= 1day, 13 hours, 39 minutes, 34 seconds so almost 40 hours played now. I have spent time crafting 175 Herbalism, 142 Tailor, 378 cooking, 200 first aid so maybe that's part of the extra time but I consider crafting part of the normal game for me at least.

 

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I believe that Blizzard is, despite adding levels with their expansions, trying to make sure it will take you the same amount of time or less to get from 1 to max level. They don't want new players to be overwhelmed by the amount of time it takes to catch up with their friends who have been playing for years.

So in other words it will take you the same amount of time to get from 1-85 as it used to take you to get from 1-60. It feels faster because of that.

 

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Im happy with the changes. It actually provides new players a chance to get to the end game instead of like so many other games, if you start late, it will take forever to reach higher levels. Yeah leveling should matter and it does for some games, but for WoW its all about the journey to max level and doing new things. Some people seem to forget WoW isnt your typically MMO

 

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You might enjoy it more Arc if you had a character on my server.


On a serious note, I did the same thing with my Shaman recently. Even before the recent changes I just flew through 1 to 60 doing quests, I didn't even hit all the dungeons because the quest xp had me past them to quickly. I still enjoyed the journey though and now with the new quest lines I am enjoying it that much more.


BC won't feel like a brick wall that goes just as fast, compared to the 1 to 60 content it is only 10 levels, you can get through it by only doing two full zones, I got the quest achievment for Zanger and Nagrand and was done. That actually disapointed me I felt like I hardly touched the BC content.


Wrath content did feel like a brick wall but that was before the recently 20% change, though I'd imagine even with that it will still go a lot slower.


As far as enjoying the journey though, I did. I've started a pally now he is level 12 and with the new quests I'm having a blast even though it is fast.


If you are really trying to enjoy the journey and not just blast through to 85 I would suggest making sure to do all the dungeons a couple times, weather you have quests for them or not. BG's too. I didn't do any BG's except AV because it was call to arms when I hit 51 and it blasted me through to 58. It might be fun to stop for a couple BG's at the end of each bracket to slow things down a bit and break things up.


Or try and alliance toon... on a PvE server..

 

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My Orc Mage has under 3 days /played and is almost level 76.... Leveling across the board is fast, but way too fast? Hell no.

 

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Content doesn't seem as engaging to me when there's absolutely no challenge. My shaman has been shredding through green and grey mobs for 20 levels, because I've been playing through the questline and following the lore. That's all I'm getting at.

 

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Personally I love the fact you can do multiple characters and still not do the same quests

 

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I am happy with the changes. As the cap gets higher it's logic to shorten the leveling time a bit so it takes roughly the same time to do 1-85 than the old 1-80.

Blizzard having made the contrary we would read you saying Blizzard want you to grind so they can milk your monthly subscription.

Can't make everyone happy.