Khane
Got something right about marriage
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The whole point of the change was for new players not existing ones RAF'ing themselves. The old world leveling had become such a joke that you leveled so rapidly it did almost nothing in showing you how to actually play your class and for new players the whole experience until you started slowing down near max level felt really fucking weird and bad. As much as they cater to existing customers they also need to make sure they are still attractive to new customers and the old leveling system while fast and easy for people who have done it a lot was really not very fun for people just being introduced to the game.
The changes did nothing to help new players "learn how to play". The class trials accomplish that just fine and new players get a free boost to 110 anyway. So what exactly does the leveling change accomplish for new players? There are so few abilities for most classes these days that you don't need very much time with a class to learn how to play it properly. Leveling was fine as it was for every player, new or old. The scaling world was a great change because you could do entire zones without things going grey except they also made it so you get such little exp that you wouldn't outlevel zones even without scaling now.
I cannot even imagine how brutally slow leveling is now without heirlooms because even with every heirloom (including the dread pirate ring) giving 55% bonus exp it is absolutely, unbearably slow.
The changes are indefensible. What exactly is a new player learning about their class while they press the same 3 buttons over and over again for 100 levels? This game is not complicated. Why are we pretending it is and using that to apologize for Blizzard and their shitty, profit driven leveling change decision? I mean, why the fuck can't we get a pre-patch event that has experience perks and benefits? The Legion pre-patch event was one of the best events they've ever put in the game. So because people loved it we should take it away because it's not good for the game? What kind of backwards ass logic is that?
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