I've taken that long to get a character to 80.
Mind you that's because I get bored and stop playing them for years at a time.
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9+1, because you get a free one in WoD :P
I personally have 21 toons and the free one will get me 22. Won't even have a use for the store 90s.
They nerfed the amount of xp required to level 70-80 by a fuckton in the 4.3 dragonsoul patch. and 60 to 70 long before that, not to mention he probably had no guildperks or heirlooms. Don't compare his experience to yours. We don't know when he leveled
You have to realize you aren´t everyone. There are a lot of people who can´t see spending money on a vanity pet, or a mount, or anything else from the cash-shop. There are people who only want to pvp at endgame, only want to raid, or in my case, have leveled through almost every zone and have every class at 90. If I want to play on a different server, it is almost worth it to skip leveling
Is the song "Desperado"? Cuz I love that song.
OP, why don't you come to your sense. You been our ridin' fences for so long, now!
Fenixdown (retail) : level 60 priest. 2005-2015, 2022-???? (returned!)
Fenixdown (classic) : level 70 priest. 2019 - present
You can go back and do old content it doesn't go away.
Is there a great deal of difference between getting boosted all the way through the content with a friend already at 90, or going back and clearing it yourself at 90?
Levelling 1-90 at any accelerated rate is going to be a less full experience than doing it the slow way; but people don't want to wait 2-3 weeks (conservative estimate) for their friends to get involved.
Doing the same quests over and over and over again. Ugh. And dungeons level you at a freakin' crawl now (there's a dungeon crawl pun in there somewhere), even if you run them back-to-back with no queue time, the XP/time is just pathetic outside the first run where you get quest credit (at least from 85-90, earlier it's a bit better).
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¬PetersenIII
Decent article. Presents decent thoughts from both sides.
The drama/whining about this feature is pretty silly. The people who can't justify it just shouldn't use it and it has very little impact on them. Whether you level from 1 or just do 90-100 it's more than adequate time to learn how to play a class. It's a good feature for some people, it's not a feature to be used by others. It's also good for the game because it helps new players to overcome the single largest hurdle in every single MMO since the first one: Leveling.
I've been leveling a guild by myself through an alt, I managed to get it to level 4 by myself before hitting 90, although my alt is a monk so the leveling process was made somewhat shorter with fewer quests needed because of Enlightenment buff. The rest of my characters are in a level 25 guild and the perks are very much missed. Extra xp, extra rep, faster mount speed, faster flight paths, 15 minute hearth etc.