August 2024

OK, so this might be a bit of a weird post. I’m on vacation this week, came back from a trip on Tuesday. On Wednesday I bought TWW, grabbed a small patch, started leveling (not the whole day), did the same today and… I’m level 80. Totally didn’t write down the times for the levels, just played a bit. It was quick, relatively fun, and that’s it.

The big problem is that the guild still seems a bit dead. Hardly 5 people online (on day 3 after an expansion launch), the other guild we’re raiding with looks a bit better but not by much. We had around 3-4 Level 80s before me, but one has just silently left the guild. Also a bit weird, but who knows.

I mean, M+ and Raids don’t start for another 2-3 weeks or so, but still, this sucks. I see 15 characters in guild over Level 70. When DF launched we raided with 20-23 from our guild alone, reaching 30 at times. I see one of our tanks (out of guild) at 78, one healer at 80, one more at 72, and that’s it.

WoW’s “The War Within” pre-patch (or pre-expansion) event isn’t too different from some other events they’ve done in the past, with enough dedication it allowed you to level a character or two quickly.

The problem is that this one is completely ridiculous. Like yes, I know they’ve repeatedly hinted in the direction of “the real game begins at max level”, but even as a relatively quick and proficient leveler I’ve had enough fun to keep myself occupied. First it was at least one character per class at max level, then it was one per faction per class. I managed that in Shadowlands and in Dragonflight I was happy with just all of them on Alliance and a handful on Horde.

Anyway, just today I spent about (or slightly less than) 4 hours in the event and managed to level a Paladin, a Hunter, a Priest, and a Monk to 70. Yes, I know about Pandaria Remix and that it also allowed to push new characters quickly, I’m not mad at people who did not have all classes and needed to catch up, I’m annoyed that I’d be stupid to ignore the event and not just spend 1h of not very challenging game play to level one character to 70.

Yes, sometimes it became repetitive but from 13 classes I usually enjoyed played 10 or so and then just got 3 done for the sake of it. Now I still need to do this event cycle about four times.

And they also disabled currency transfer *again* so I can’t even buy the mounts. Hopefully I won’t forget to check before this ends, or I need to grind 2 toons from 10k to 20k currency instead of just moving it around. Sigh.