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I already ignore it lol
You didn't have to do bfa lvling in shadowlands
Having leveled 12 alts through all expacs and zones. This was the only time I stopped part way through and just quit.
I did that in Cata, but it's mainly because EVERYONE I knew quit and I decided it was my time too.
This time, I just hated it on my 4th time through. Got to the end of story, got decent LFR/Covenant gear, then quit logging in, even with 2 months left on my sub.
they need to make new players play 1-60 in the most recent expac. it makes no sense introducing them to forgotten systems and old story lines that they won't see a resolution to anyways
i don't know if they want us to ignore it or not but i'll definitely try
Does Blizzard Want Us To Ignore Shadowlands?*
Tsk tsk tsk
Ardenweald when it rains at night is the coolest looking zone they have ever made.
Don't mention "The Troubles"(tm) in the podcast… yeah, kind of like not mentioning "The War Between the State" ™ in the US
Aesthetically I liked Bastion the most, it's basically hellenic Elysium. Also for questing it felt ok. Ardenweald felt like replaying Teldrassil again but Teldrassil was cool 2 decades ago so… Yeah. When in maldraxxus we'd joke about this and that becoming an worldquest and it all did. The way you'd be thrown into the story and then just kinda fell out again also wierd. Revendreth and the venthyr was what I was most hyped about for my character because I am an edgelord. I wanted Underworld or Blade, I got victorian age umbrellas and vertical design without flying.
Lately I’ve been making alts to play through expansions I’ve missed over the year since Chrome time. Still the BE have the best starting zone.
they made 5 guilds forgot wow exist in 5 years, they are doint it so good
The theme of revendreth was cool, but the layout was just annoying
They should give the people back their money for whoever bought the Xpac. They straight up robbed people with a horrid xpac.
Considering you will just be able to skip it i guess they do, it didn't happen lol
Shadowlands is Haram! Not halal at all!
Does* Blizzard or Do the people at Blizzard.
They absolutely want to look away from shadowlands. There is 0 lead up to Dragonflight, usually indicative of ignoring what's going on at present. Granted I like that we are back on Earth as it were. Instead of space and random nowhere destinations. I'd like to see an expansion where we heal all the damage done by previous expacs and begin to really tie the horde and alliance together and bring about 1 faction with small disputes.
Shadowlands leveling to me was uniquely bad. Imagine not getting your artifact weapon and class order hall until hitting max level in Legion. That what leveling in Shadowlands felt like.
I loved the theme of Revendreth, and I HATED that zone, so so much. They ruined the theme.
After what they did to Arthas? They couldn't pay me to care to remember SL.
I would of rather they had done Exile's Reach>Legion>Dragon Isles instead. You would get off the boat essentially only to be recruited into this big effort to face down the Legion where you would buff out your armor, test your skills, get some food in you, grab some medicine, and go right off into the bloodiest amphibious landing Azeroth has ever seen where you would get to see the characterization of the major characters, take losses, and have strong villains right in your face. You also get thrust into more action right off the bat in each zone you pick.
Oh yeah blizzard is trying really hard to Omit SL, umm leveling in SL is atrocious lol easily the worst leveling experience imo its slow, awful to navigate and if i had to choose BFA is way better of an experience then SL
If they're putting you into BfA but NOT Shadowlands, then it's very safe to assume that Sylvanas is going to be thrown on a bus for a LONG time.
.. At least, if they have the brains to keep narrative sense, anyways, since.. well, BfA things only conclude directly in Shadowlands.. and SHOULD leave her character vastly different.
BFA had great levelling tf?
"Don't mention the Troubles in the podcast!" made me lol
I mean, they do this with just about every expansion making previous content irrelevant.
They want us to forget the last 3 expansions.
Shadowlands had the potential to be really good leveling wise but just fell flat. They chose characters for the most part that no one really cared about and didn't have others they wanted to see. On top of that the zones feel kind of closed off compared to some of the past. It's not bad the firs time through because its new and you kind of get pulled along hoping to see some of the long lost Azerothians. Once the new where's off the zones just feel small and boring.
Honestly I wouldn’t mind leveling in SL with chromie time bc for most of my alts I just leveled by fate. Haven’t actually done the leveling quests in a long time
It really doesnt make sense for a new player to go 0-100 with overwhelming stories arcs
I'd sooner ignore WoD.
I liked Revendreth just because the castles were cool, and the whole zone being themed about sins and atonement felt impactful. The dredgers accents and the nobles obsession with drinking tea didn't really add anything to the zone. I found Bastion bright and obnoxious, Ardenweald glittery and boring,and Maldraxxus was… fine, I guess.
Drustvar was the only BfA zone I actually enjoyed though. Maybe as a new player it would be fine to go through BfA, but if I ever have to level anything else I'll stick to WoD.
Bfa alliance was real nice! And it does have a kind of classic vibe to it. I think revendreth with the vampire team and landscapes brought to my mind more like Romania. Transylvania, anyone…?
i think overall i think its better if they went this route. it feels weird to go from tutorial island to saving the realm of the dead even though you just got done being a grunt on an island
going from tutorial island -> bfa -> dragonisles makes a lot more sense pacing wise
I mean ideally they are ashamed and retcon there own story, because it still did irreparable damage to the sotry
I'm ignoring it whether they want me to or not. The 2 worst leveling zones in the whole game are Revendreth and Highmountain, in that order. I'll never go to either of them ever again.
I loved alliance bfa leveling, its what got me back into the game because I was so nostalgic for it. The problem with shadowlands leveling is (and why I would have quit if they made us do shadowlands again) was the lore. I can't level somewhere and enjoy it if it doesn't look warcrafty, and doesn't have good lore. I felt like I was playing destiny 2, not WoW. Kul Tiras is beautiful, and very fun to level in. All shadowlands zones look too unrealistic and gaudy. I'm happy blizzard is doing this, I just wish I hadn't wasted money on buying shadowlands.
BFA alliance leveling was great. Zones and story was awesome. Taking the ship through the sound, oh man that was just cool. Horde was meh. Not bad but not good.
Shadowlands, terrible. I was burnt out after leveling my main through the zones
As an American, revendreth didn’t seem British at all. Then again by that point, I was so sick of shadowlands leveling that I put on Netflix and zoned out
for me BfA and WoD are dead zones for alt lvling since I was not playing those expansions and I have no flying there, getting it now seems to be grinding for weeks without other reason than just lvleling alts there. Zones are nice but I prefer just to go same zones over and over again just to not grind flying there ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Don't mind if I do Blizzard, don't mind if I do.
With the new player experience I think it’s rough being new and wanting to get involved with the story itself. I think Blizzard should take that extra time to make a new leveling experience where instead of diving into BFA they create a storyline mode where you can recap on major events/raids in expansions prior. There’s so much max level content that gets never used as well. I would love to see a leveling experience where you actually get to level in Suramar or they finally let you do the artifact weapon quests for legion max level for questing purposes. It must really be frustrating for players who didn’t farm out legion artifacts to get all of them now a days especially with the mission table timegating and how much irrelevant content you actually have to go through
Can't say any of the zone stuck out in a good way to me when leveling. Revendreth came off as pretty bad. I liked the dungeons mostly though. I think I'll stick to Pandaria as my main way of leveling alts unless I feel like doing something else.
I might have hated BFA's story line, burning world tree/ruining sylvanis/lame end for old gods but the zones themselves were great to level through and is actually one of my fav to play. Jaina's quest line was something I actually liked. BFA proved you can have a bad expansion but still have good gameplay. I don't have much that I cared for in shadow lands, the story made little to no sense, the zones were not nearly as fun *some had nice themes but weren't necessarily fun to play like ravindreth*, Orobos was just annoying, I kinda just hated the maw, torgast was fun for a bit but depending on your build it was piss easy or annoying as hell and it got old fast. Castle nathria was aight, but didn't enjoy anything past that.
The worst thing is you can't play any of the old content, i.e. you can do the outdoors zones, but can't use LFG to do the dungeons that go with them. It's as if they're trying to gradually remove the original game so we have nothing to compare the new 'crap' with.
Name a shadowlands zone better than hillsbrad foothills.
I liked the small towns/villages in Revendreth. The whole ‘huge castle’ aesthetic wasn’t well executed. But the first few towns had good atmosphere.
Name > Neaim