Originally Posted by
Wingspan
For as long as there has been WoW, there has been a steady stream of "I hate leveling" threads. For the record, I never had this problem... I enjoy leveling.
That said, in order to progress your weapon, you do quests and dungeons, maybe pvp or whatever (the things we generally do to level).
As we do this, the weapon gives us new powers, upgrade/modifications to old powers, and better damage and healing. For over 10 years, this is what has generally been what happens as we level.
Call it what you want, but it looks like leveling to me (just without a pretty new numeric value like "Level 121").
Even better, they have built in an enormous (sliding) experience curve in order to prevent people from getting leveled too far ahead of casual players. And if you take the developer quotes (from my last post) as they are stated, you will literally be leveling the entire expansion.
Is it good or bad? I don't know... and I don't really care. I just don't think people see it for what it is yet.