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"It's not a skip, but those people that aren't partaking in it will be behind", the logical consequence of not using a skip is being behind.
Seriously, do you even process your own arguements or you just write them out with every logical contradiction included and that obvious?
So you dont know what you are talking about.
It was a 15% XP reduction from 20-60
Quests also gave more XP.
And as you Said a lot of elite/group quests were nerfed.
Dungeons in vanilla was nerfed and dropped better loot.
If you cant see how much of an impact this does.......
I lvled most of my characters in TBC after the XP patch and it was like flying.
They put hours of gametime into it instead of real money. Not sure if it's unfair with that. It's still stupid for new players of course with pretty ruined economy. Personally I won't play until there's fresh realms without boost. Pretty sure they'll make fresh realms at least to manage pop, just gotta hope some are no boost allowed.
Love the fact that the OP says it's BLIZZARD... yet you do realize that they are owned by Activision. If activision wants a boost for something, well you damn well know they are gonna get it. So don't ask blizzard if they have no shame. Cause they are just doing what Activision tells them to do.
Now I will say this. I can see why people are so upset about boosts for classic. but then again, I don't think it's anything to cry about. It's 1 per account. You can't use it on Draenei or Blood elves, You are only getting your 40 mount, and you get blues. That's about it. And tbh. I can't blame people for wanting to get to 58 and get ready for Outland. Considering no one on my server does low dungeons anymore and only want boosts (And this is apparently happening on other servers as well.) it makes things worse.
On the plus side though. it's not like it's gonna be hard to get to 60 when the prepatch drops. If what I am hearing is correct, when tbc prepatch happened before, Blizz shortened the xp you needed. so it's a bit faster. That and classes are much stronger. Sooo It's obviously and completely optional. We also don't know how much the boost is gonna be as of yet. If it's anything over 40$, it's probably not even worth it.
My 2 cents on it. Also feel like OP is trying to bait a little. but that's just me.
Dude, it is 2021, people has got al life. Besides, they are doing it at the "end of classic". I don´t see how it affect nearly anyone at all. If something, you should be happy as this will bring on more players, specially those who simply can not afford to spend hours leveling, as amazing as it was in classic.
And I levelled characters both before and after the TBC nerf, and before and after every subsequent change too.
This magical "super fast" that you talk about didn't exist. The TBC nerf helped yes, but it wasn't anywhere close to making it super fast, it was still a shit multi-day experience until Cataclysm implemented the quest overhaul.
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I still don't understand why anyone is upset. Players got what they want, now they are mad that people who ONLY WANT TO PLAY TBC get to play ONLY TBC? Sounds petty.
Good. None of my friends that are adults would jobs would be able to level in under 3 months and I'd have to wait for them. By then half the game would be cleared.
FFS I'm a purist and even I know restarting for new people is a bad idea. If you wanna do boring classic pve more play classic.