Originally Posted by
KronosIII
Going to be very honest about this.
This game is extremely cancerous to new players. Majority of the players have played for many years and will outright refuse to help, hold hands, or support new players at all. The raiding community is extremely elitist even though this is just a silly video game.
As far as starting from level 1 the experience is quite dated. It got a revamp in cataclysm but that was years ago and mmos have evolved even more since then. I highly recommend you have friends to play with if you are new.
Also using your free level 100 is absolutely overwhelming for new players even more so in legion. You have your talent trees, artifact slots, Artifact power and artifact knowledge, spells in general, all thrown at you at once. And all the tutorial does is maybe only show 5 spells when you easily have over 25 spells to use.
Majority of the players are old players. New players are normally turned away quite quickly or discouraged with how cancerous the community is to new players.
You are expected to know everything, and even watch boss fights before you actually play them or get kicked 90% of the time.
Even in low levels in dungeon finder. Players love to vote kick or bully new players that are simply lost or not know what to do. Instead of explaining you will get kicked.
So honestly the biggest hurdle is the cancerous elitist community. I've been playing since Vanilla myself and I honestly hate the treatment of new players in this game. It's similar to league of legends in certain ways.