Yes, but why not? Why shouldn't it be? Isn't the goal of an event to be exciting? To break the rules for a little while? The joy of the pre-patch period has always been that the rules are suspended. I'm not sure what Blizzard has gained by taking away what people were enjoying. If some people use that opportunity to level 10 alts, what harm is that to the game as a whole?
Considering Blizzard has built this expansion around the "class fantasy", why shouldn't there be encouragement for people to level more alts to experience more of that fantasy?
xp is not nerfed per hour since events is more often now you actlually get more xp per 4 hours then before
They do, actually. It's Legion style scaling - you see the boss as having less health than someone of a higher lvl.
It's still shitty for lower level alts since some abilities (mostly AoE atacks) don't scale properly and tend to oneshot lowbies. Not to mention PvPers who often make it their primary objective to ignore demons and prey on the weaker players.
But then Blizzard posted this tweet
https://twitter.com/Muffinus/status/764457048931053569XP from invasions increased dramatically, should now be a good way to level alts?
The question I wonder is, what would it have hurt to not change the XP. I would have leveled to 100 faster and either be done or I might have started a 2nd or 3rd or 4th alt. Either way, I'm not leveling by the normal means I either grabbing Invasion XP and logging out every 4 hours or I'm chaining running them to get the most XP. Either way, the only thing I'm doing on the alt is leveling through invasions.
I'm curious why it matters how fast I get to 100, if they didn't want me leveling that way, it should offer very little XP to encourage to to do it the "normal" way.
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There is no reason to not farm nethershards if you know what to do with them. I also personally care about WF especially on some of my newer 100 alts or to fill in some spots I'm missing.
I'd rather level through invasions where I can sit around and do something else if need be, or actively participate in the event than dungeon spam again.
This would be a completely fair point if these weren't wildly cross-realm. I'm not saying experiences aren't varying, but I just find it very, very difficult to believe that out of the dozens I've done I haven't had a single one longer than maybe 25 minutes (we'll call it 30 with flight time), while people are saying they've done multiple that lasted an hour each. Maybe if they're including 15 minutes of ground travel or something, I dunno.
I'm not saying they aren't longer (they do seem a few minutes longer on average than they were for me yesterday), but people are saying it's taking 45 minutes to an hour per invasion. 30 minutes I can believe, not an hour.
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It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
You do realize the gear now Warforges right? Also less people doing the events less events get done and therefor those who really want to do them get screwed.
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If it isn't the best way (Infact its the worse way besides pvp) then its not a good way.
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Yeah. I didnt think that much of the exp nerf til this morning and... uh, yeah. No thank you to powerleveling through invasions. No complaints... just I'm not going to burn myself out running my alt(or alts...) across 2 virtual continents every... ~3hrs now? Just a bummer all'z eye kin sae.
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Sub 100? Would rather afk and watch movies than level in Outland, no-flying Pandaria, or WoD. Or would prefer to do something other than questing while waiting for dungeon queues.
If you've geared all your alts fully already, you play a lot. These invasions are not intended to keep a hardcore player occupied for 6+ hours a day for the next 3 weeks. Go do something else.
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