So we’re in the prepatch phase before the newest (to be released yet) WoW expansion The War Within. I’m not really excited or hyped, but kinda looking forward to raiding with my guild again, so many of them (including me) have been offline for the last 2 months, so let’s hope it just organically happens.
I still had this 6x Druid in Remix: Mists of Pandaria to level to 70 (and spend my Bronze) and today I did just that. With the latest changes to XP it took me less than an hour. From what I understood leveling in Retail should also be a lot quicker now, that’s good for everyone, right?
Maybe not. For many years one of my goals was to have a single character per class at the maximum level in the course of the expansion, explained in great detail on the MMOs & Me page. Remix: MoP has already put the first dents in this “goal” (if we assume that at the end of that all the characters, including the 70s of course, will just be normal ones) and then you don’t even need that route. I mean, it’s cool for people who really just want to do endgame activities but for me just grinding gear has always felt a bit pointless. Levels are kinda forever (a wild level squish appears), like, you are not being set back in your progress more than anyone else. New expansion, and now you’re still at the old maximum level, then you level and you are at max level again. That’s fine. What I never liked was being at max level but with suddenly terrible gear. Just a personal problem and not very objective, but that’s how it is.
But with no raid tier I didn’t play Season 4 of Dragonflight at all. Zero M+, zero raid bosses, I think.
Also Dragonflight was the first expansion in a while where I didn’t really bother with the second faction, as I am writing this my highest Horde toons are 70 Warrior, 69 Shaman (after logging in I noticed I was at 69 and 105% and still had to do 1 Archaeology dig to ding…), 67 Rogue, and 63 Warlock, not counting the Remix Druid. That’s a terrible quota out of 13 classes. At least I got all done on Alliance, but not a single intra-faction duplicate this time either. Wow. I’ll see if I get at least the aforementioned 6xs to 70, but not sure if there will be more. Kind of sad about this but after all it will be my 4th expansion where I main Alliance, maybe even 5th, but Legion was murky.
So, let’s see how quick leveling in TWW will really be and if “getting one to max level” will still hold any value for myself, or if it’s so quick that it might devolve into a very boring check list item for me.
That was one of those goals I have always had and never obtained. That said, I did come back to raiding and joined my guild’s M+ team this expansion which took me entirely by surprise as after Wrath of the Lich King, I struggled with committing to raiding longterm every time I tried and had assumed it just wasn’t something I could do anymore, yet aside from a 7 month break during season 3 I was there the full expansion! I don’t know how that’ll go come TWW, mind.
Hehe, I guess that was quite the difference from WotLK but glad you had fun. For me it wasn’t such a big contrast as I’d played most expansions since then, even if just a little.