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Gain the Winds of Wisdom 100% Experience Buff Through April 20
In light of COVID 19, Blizzard has added a 100% Experience Buff that will be active beginning today through April 20, 2020.


Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
If you’re staying inside and find yourself returning to Azeroth, or if you’re leveling another character (or two), you’ll be getting a special bonus to help you on your way. Beginning today through April 20, 2020 all players in Battle for Azeroth will gain an experience buff called “Winds of Wisdom” which will increase experience gains by 100%! (This includes Starter Edition and Legion players as well.)

Players will also be able to take advantage of this experience boost while still using their favorite heirlooms. It won’t take long before you’ll be facing off with the Old God N’Zoth and his minions in Ny’alotha, the Waking City.
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  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Biggles Worth View Post
    Most games when you give them $15 you are given something in return besides the luxury of playing a dead game.
    Only WoW isn't dead, not even almost.

    Try to sing something that hasn't been wrong for 15 years.
    Not that I doubt that some might be dumb enough to pay money for a product they don't like nor want. But that's their issue.
  1. Firebeast's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Onikaroshi View Post
    I'm talking double XP, nothing like this has ever happened before. We've gotten little boosts now and a again, but nothing this massive.
    lol, this means that their subs must have really dropped off lately
  1. Donald Hellscream's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Laqweeta View Post
    LOL. Looks like Lucid Dreams R2 STILL requires 8 DAYS in Nazjatar, ick. Both Naz and Mechagon were terrible zones.

    And yeah I guess so, I mean I can log into a 3.3.5 private server and enjoy nearly every class.
    Unless you have it at rank 3 on any given character, then it just requires 500 echoes of nyalotha, which you easily get in a day just by playing the game.

    Yes you can't get them for free for your alts, but its significantly easier to get them on your alts than it was before where you had to actually put in a lot of effort to get your essences.
  1. mauserr's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bennett View Post
    Why lie - you can get 2 a week for minimal effort, without doing any group content. If you started the day before reset day you could theoretically have your 4 best essences in 2 days.

    But let's be generous and assume it takes you a week - that's still hardly a grind compared to what it was.

    - - - Updated - - -



    Imagine watching that hypocrite
    Sure, I got almost 2k essences on my main on which I've had a +19 done and I've ran 4 5 masked runs this week on top of echoes from a few +15 keys from end-of-dungeon chest. You're never going to see those numbers on an alt that you're levelling up right now unless you're paying for boosts to get those numbers. You're not running any masked runs in the next few weeks until you get your memento rearch going. You are also not doing anything close to a +15 for that nice number of echoes from your weekly chest either, unless you ofc buy a boost or get carried by guildies. You're also not going to win any sensible amount of Arenas with trash gear around 440 ilvl and no corruptions.

    I don't lie.
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Firebeast View Post
    lol, this means that their subs must have really dropped off lately
    It's literally a response to Covid-19.

    They didn't even do something like this during WoD, so your "logic" doesn't work.
  1. crakerjack's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lollerlaban View Post
    This is it guys. Even when Blizzard helps out levellers there's one douche who goes out of his way to complain because it doesn't help HIM.

    ME ME ME ME
    You're so adorable. Not only do a lot of people already have plenty of alts, but there has already been past events that made leveling quicker than this 100% buff will ever do. That being said, how does more alts help Blizzard? More alts means more people to logon and jack up those MAU's. Because once you hit 120, you still have various grinds ahead of you and you're likely committed to that alt for the next month or so. They could have added bonuses to rep and other aspects, but they chose leveling specifically.
  1. Kyphael's Avatar


    MMO-C, you won't be seeing me until April 20th.

    Heritage armor for allied races, here I come!
  1. Queen of Hamsters's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kyphael View Post


    MMO-C, you won't be seeing me until April 20th.

    Heritage armor for allied races, here I come!
    I second this. As soon as I get back to the comp, there's going to be Heritage armor galore!!
  1. Voidwielder's Avatar
    Turn Korraks Revenge back on.
  1. Great Destiny Man's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by crakerjack View Post
    You're so adorable. Not only do a lot of people already have plenty of alts, but there has already been past events that made leveling quicker than this 100% buff will ever do. That being said, how does more alts help Blizzard? More alts means more people to logon and jack up those MAU's. Because once you hit 120, you still have various grinds ahead of you and you're likely committed to that alt for the next month or so. They could have added bonuses to rep and other aspects, but they chose leveling specifically.
    They could have, but then again they didn't have to do jack shit either. I myself have around 14 alts at 120 but I'm not complaining, there's still some heritage armours I haven't acquired yet so it still has use to me.
  1. crakerjack's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Queen of Hamsters View Post
    I second this. As soon as I get back to the comp, there's going to be Heritage armor galore!!
    I think the only thing stopping me from unlocking heritage armor is the fact that you can only use it on characters of that specific race. I could level another class as a void elf, but then I'd be stuck with 2 of the same class and only one of them being able to use the heritage armor. They should change heritage armor so that any of your characters can use it regardless of their race.
  1. Oakshana's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Daemos daemonium View Post
    Why would you think they are trying to compete with totally different games?
    I think they were more pointing out that they now have a conflict as to what to play.
  1. Laqweeta's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bennett View Post
    So you can't bitch about something you've never done? You need to earn the essences at least once lol jesus christ be less entitled and lazy if you want me to take you seriously
    And that's understandable, but unfortunately it's not fun so like I'm not gonna do it lol. Be a sheep though <3
  1. Tiwack's Avatar
    Curious pandemic response... especially when the squish will remove half the levels later this year.

    Everybody get that heritage armor tho!
  1. Djaye's Avatar
    save your crappy retail experience boost. it takes a day to level from 110-120 as is now.

    put up something novel, like i dont know... actual content?
  1. thilicen's Avatar
    Might as well go get some heritage armors then, God knows there's enough time a day to do some leveling now.
  1. crakerjack's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Great Destiny Man View Post
    They could have, but then again they didn't have to do jack shit either. I myself have around 14 alts at 120 but I'm not complaining, there's still some heritage armours I haven't acquired yet so it still has use to me.
    First off no one was complaining. I just had some sensitive snowflake take exception to me because I wasn't overly grateful for this xp boost. In honesty, this xp boost only supports those who have intentions of leveling alts, but what about those that don't? How does the leveling boost help you? So that you can level a new allied race to max level and only use that heritage armor on that specific alt? I could do the same thing too, but then I now have 2 of a certain class and if I want to utilize the heritage armor, I feel compelled to gear up another class that I already have geared.

    Again I don't care either way. I just made a statement and someone too offense to it.
  1. Laqweeta's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bennett View Post
    I'm a sheep because I played the game? What's it like being a moron I'm genuinely curious
    Yes, you are. And you're the minority now so that's cool.

    I'm sorry the Essence Grind is absolutely fucking broing, and along with everything else BfA has had to offer - been met with overwhelmingly negative response. You can act like the negativity doesn't exist, I won't.

    So be a sheep
  1. Lucetia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Firebeast View Post
    lol, this means that their subs must have really dropped off lately
    Yes, this is the exact reason. It has absolutely nothing to do with the current pandemic going on and people being in their homes a lot more and looking for things to do. Nope, the only reason is because subs are low.
  1. Sigxy's Avatar
    I know I dislike Blizzard quite a lot lately - but I actually really like this as a way to help people enjoy themselves dueing the Corona Virus issue. Thanks, Blizzard!

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