If you're genuinely starting fresh in TBC, 2 weeks is... probably enough time with regular play to get a draenai/blood elf to 58
The pass isn't ONLY available for new players though (though, enough would just go with second account and be done with it) so if they don't restrict it, everyone uses it to add their draenai shaman/blood elf paladin to their character selection. That's... kinda... poor (AND as it happens, the option they'd take if they were being more greedy, they'd get a LOT more sales if folks could use it to get their new alliance shammy/horde pally).
This... is about the most sensible balance.
Originally Posted by BoubouilleOriginally Posted by xxAkirhaxx
Anyone else think "So you don't skip the starter zones (that haven't been changed in approximately a billion years anyway)" is the dumbest suggested reason out of them all?
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Well that's gonna be tonnes of people cuz fuckloads explicitly said "I wanna play TBC not Vanilla, fuck Vanilla levelling"
Talents are also new key feature that even stop before getting to tbc. There's even new quests for a all races on 1-60. Then one month into tbc we will have 60lvl belfs and draenei and then that reason doesn't make sense anymore.
I don't understand in turn why it's fine to boost to 58 when no one did. But then it's not fine boost to 58 when no one did that either.
You don't need to level in two weeks. You can level the character just fine well after tBC launch.
To OP: Limit outrage I guess. They are straight-up saying no to free income by limiting out the new races and sure logically it doesn't make sense. The new races are going to explode in popularity so maybe restricting the boost would help the imbalance.
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The wise wolf who's pride is her wisdom isn't so sharp as drunk.
One of their goals is to get people to spend a lot of time on this game.
They know a lot of people want to level new races, hence opportunity to get a lot of people to spend a lot of time.
Once enough people have them leveled they’ll sell boosts for them.
Not having a boost definitely killed my desire, but it was admittedly low to begin with once I remembered that I enjoy having more than 2 buttons and loads of dead globals.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Back then, they thought of Classic and BC the same game, but BC actually didn't start until either:
A.) You went through that portal at lvl 58-60.
B.) You started a Blood Elf or Draenei and leveled from 1.
The distinction of Classic and BC really wasn't the case, as new people had to sludge through old content just to play the stuff they actually paid $ to play. Noone was raiding Onyxia, Naxx, or BWL anymore, and you played hell forming the simplest of high level dungeon groups
People say they want "Classic BC", but reading this says the opposite. They want to play with the improvement (character boost) that lets you enjoy the content you actually paid for. Well, you paid for the option to start a lvl 1 Draenei or Blood Elf, that was part of "Classic BC".
I think the restriction should be only for shamans on alliance and pallies for horde. All the other classes should allow you to boost. Just my two cents.
Well I guess its now 2 weeks less a day to catch your expansion race up.
from what I read, about 20%. I screenshotted how much xp I needed to level from 45 to 46 before the prepatch so I will see what it is when the servers are up and let you know
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finally was able to login; yesterday the total xp from 45-46 was 117k. now it is 96k
It doesn't make sense logically yeah like few said earlier.
Think someone also said to limit outrage. My guess is it's a way to give the more "serious" gamers an out to still liking it. Since p2w isn't so liked in the western world, they can rationalize it not being p2w.
I wonder if China will also have the limit or not. They do already have wow tokens in classic and in PoE it's a whole different game filled with p2w there.