Legion Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[nazrakin]

Leveling alts is something I am dreadful of for legion.

With all class/profession exclusive bits Im actually looking forward to it.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

You don't have to level alts that fast. Go at your own pace.

[Blayze]

You don't have to level alts that fast. Go at your own pace.

Normally I'd say give it a couple of weeks or so and do older stuff to (a) give other players the chance to get out of your way, and (b) give Blizzard the chance to both fix bugs and identify bottleneck quests, but all signs I've seen so far point to World Quests getting abandoned by the playerbase pretty damn soon after launch.

[Chickat]

I wish they got rid of the xp bit on heirlooms. Its just for being powerful. Make a legacy talent tree like swtor. 4-5th alt would be like 100% faster.

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That plus adding scaling to old zones so you can do say Hillsbrad foothills at level 25 or 75 would be nice. Even thou you are leveling fast, you can choose to finish a story if you are enjoying it.

[Imnick]

I would say the exact opposite, Heirlooms should provide EXP but have far less powerful stats than they currently do (on par with gear for that level, not much stronger as they are at present).
It's the overblown power level that makes low level content and especially group content feel bad, the bonus EXP is useful for people who want to get more alts quickly.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Normally I'd say give it a couple of weeks or so and do older stuff to (a) give other players the chance to get out of your way, and (b) give Blizzard the chance to both fix bugs and identify bottleneck quests, but all signs I've seen so far point to World Quests getting abandoned by the playerbase pretty damn soon after launch.

I doubt it, I think World Quests will stay on for a long while much more compared to what happened at WoD Launch.

[derpkitteh]

I wish they got rid of the xp bit on heirlooms. Its just for being powerful. Make a legacy talent tree like swtor. 4-5th alt would be like 100% faster.

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That plus adding scaling to old zones so you can do say Hillsbrad foothills at level 25 or 75 would be nice. Even thou you are leveling fast, you can choose to finish a story if you are enjoying it.

i like both those ideas. i love having the power of heirlooms, but i don't really like outleveling an area.

so, have scaling all over the world and stuff, it'd be awesome.

[Imnick]

The thing is it's cool the first time but whats about when you have like 120 stacks of ore in your inventory that you want to prospect.

I'm reasonably sure that's a one time quest and not an activity you need to perform every time you want to do prospecting (especially because the video is of cutting a gem, not prospecting it from ore).

[Blayze]

I wouldn't mind if heirlooms lost the XP bonus they give. They're most useful just so you never have to faff around with most bits of gear while levelling, so I'd like to see enough heirlooms for EVERY gear slot.

[glowpipe]

Is the current insane lag/delay a direct result of the phasing issue ? The servers basicly kneeling or is it the increased playerbase ?
90fps and 50ish ms ingame. But still abilities have a 2-3 seconds delay. Many times it just goes to a standstill for several seconds.Was perfectly fine in alpha and its also fine on live. So its no issues on my end. Same for my friend and nearly everone in chat.

[RoutinelyWorgen]

There's a lot of spicing and polishing left to do with the mechanics though they're looking surprisingly decent so far.
Of course we won't go into patches until post-launch and storyline predictions belong in lore, but how will they incentivize players to pursue things?

[derpkitteh]

I wouldn't mind if heirlooms lost the XP bonus they give. They're most useful just so you never have to faff around with most bits of gear while levelling, so I'd like to see enough heirlooms for EVERY gear slot.

oh yeah, that'd really be great. just remove the xp gain from them and give full heirlooms.

[Thunderi]

So I logged into Val'Sharah today. . . (reboot of game fixed it)

http://i.imgur.com/mUoy8r9.jpg

[rcshaggy]

So I logged into Val'Sharah today. . . (reboot of game fixed it)

http://i.imgur.com/mUoy8r9.jpg

I like on the X is like "Treasure marks the spot"

And still no Beta invite.
Oh well...

[DesMephisto]

Do forum bans knock you out of beta invite?

[derpkitteh]

Do forum bans knock you out of beta invite?

apparently account bans don't even lock you out.

i've heard people say ptr and betas were open to them, even though they were on long bans.

[Seramore]

I wish they got rid of the xp bit on heirlooms. Its just for being powerful. Make a legacy talent tree like swtor. 4-5th alt would be like 100% faster.

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That plus adding scaling to old zones so you can do say Hillsbrad foothills at level 25 or 75 would be nice. Even thou you are leveling fast, you can choose to finish a story if you are enjoying it.

fortunately you don't design for blizzard so we don't have to worry about that awful idea of removing xp from heirlooms and making leveling even more unbearable than it is now

[DesMephisto]

apparently account bans don't even lock you out.

i've heard people say ptr and betas were open to them, even though they were on long bans.

Its only a 24 hour ban for calling someone a douche for saying homosexuality is a political preference. Meanwhile a person who circumvented the swear filter cursing directly at blizzard is still up in a thread of mine for 5+ days now @_@

I don't understand their system some days, but that makes me happy to hear. Would suck to lose Beta over a bigot :\

[Dragon Claws]

Would suck to lose Beta over a bigot :\

Funny thing about bigots is they're easy to ignore. You can easily move on. Turn around, walk away. Not worth it.

[Seramore]

So after the beta being up for a few days, how is the expansion so far compared to the others? This is the first expansion that I'm genuinely excited for since Cataclysm, I hated the idea of Pandaria as a whole and there are too many things to name for my initial dislike of WoD. I'm interested in hearing what people think of it so far.