Is Blizzard the king of money-milking tactics?
>latest patch
>old world zones "revamped" to make them more "immersive" so you can still keep up with the lore without outleveling it
>experience needed to level increased
>mob HP increased
>leveling an alt takes twice as long now, even with heirlooms
>"but you can still buy a level boost token, the most expensive service in our shop!"
Totally not a marketing ploy for selling boost tokens near the end of the expansion, right guys?
Sup Forums could easily win the prize for most impressive mental gymnastics
Or just buy tokens for gold and get level boosts free
>leveling is too easy
>complain
>leveling takes too long
>complain
I haven't played wow in nearly a decade, but it's just impossible to win with you faggots
if ur a poor faggot ingame, yes u cant buy boosts for INGAME GOLD. you deserve it then.
I've never heard anyone complain about the leveling being too easy. People hated slogging through the old content for the 10th time.
You haven’t been paying attention
How are people going to react when classic launches if they can't handle this leveling revamp?
WoW player since vanilla. He's absolutely right. Leveling from 1-10 is the same, but once you hit around 80-90, it's painful. 100-110 isn't even worth your time BUT rep is required to do endgame content, and max rep is required to unlock the new races, so 100-110 is absolutely required to do manually.
At first I was going to disagree
Then I remembered /r9k/ and /cgl/ exist
Does this mean you can play a trial account and complete all of the content at level 20?
Guess not. Then again I don't come to Sup Forums very often anymore.
no
>Complaining takes too long
>Complain
You literally can't.
This. I can't even kill anything solo in Frostfire Ridge as a Shaman.
>You have to play a game in order to progress
Also Rep is in no way required for endgame content.
Again, nu-WoW us just a "endgame" themepark, leveling is waiting in the line. Nobody wants to wait in the line.
...
oh no
looks like you might have to play with other people
in an mmo
the fucking horror
>My butt hurts from sitting on this stump
>Sylvanas kinda smells and keeps giving me a weird look
>I wanted a big boy mug
>I think I got meat stuck between my teeth
>Yes yes Liadrin, the Light is sooo awesome...
>Why does Gallywix get to sit next to Baine
>Who even is that Troll lady
>Why am I wearing such a weird mishmash of clothes
>Baine and Saurfang are dressed so cool, why can't I look like that
>I should find a tailor
>Why am I even wearing a Priest belt
>Is this a monocle or an eyepatch
>It sure is quiet
>Really awkward...
>Oh Baine's talking now
>The only pain I'm feeling is in my butt
>Baine is a pretty good talker
>Yeah man, For the Horde
>Sylvanas didn't even say anything
>I wish I had a chair like that
>Oh, Gallywix is getting up
>What's this about rats
>Why do I have to sit so far away
>I wonder if anyone will notice if I took Gallywix's seat
>I bet Nathanos would snitch on me if I moved to the other side of the table
>Huh, oh he's looking at me
>Sup dude...
>Just nod your head and smile Lor'themar
>...
>Red-eyed bitch
>Your skin is grey
>I bet you're an unnatural brunette
>How do undead even maintain their complexion
>Sylvanas has been gone for awhile
>There's a shimmering light underneath the curtains
>If it's shiny, I wanna see, too
>...
>I wish I was back in Silvermoon
>I'm done with my food
>Is there like... a waiter or something
>I guess it'd be rude if I got up and left
>Should I wait for Sylvanas to come back
>I don't want to be the first one to leave
>I'm still kinda hungry
>I should ask if Halduron wants to go get something to eat later
>Should I bring Liadrin
>She'll probably just talk more about the Light
>I should host a guys night out sometime
>I wonder if Baine and Saurfang would want to come
>Fuck Nathanos though
>He's probably that guy that would bring his girlfriend anyway
>He's not invited
The superior pasta.
Almost like they're just pretending.
what a massive fuckup.
leveling to 110 was by no means a quick process (maybe in comparison to other MMO's and older WoW) it still took a week or 2 if you had a job.
I have no idea why'd you do this before the exapansion that adds 6 new races and expect anyone to want to level up them purely to look different.
So let me get this straight, Cataclysm casualizes the entire leveling experience and then EIGHT YEARS LATER they decide to fix it?
Blizzard is ran by the most incompetent retards in existence. It's not surprise everybody has migrated to XIV.
Probably because it’s blizzard and next expansion won’t come out until November, anyways
What is the most fun tank to play on live right now?
Well said, user.
They've made a number of changes to leveling over the years. Just because you read a recent patch it doesn't make you an expert.
So did anyone get any vanilla drops during the bug?
Yeah, they added a paid feature to skip it. Amazing.
They're not planning on having people level the new races. Theyre trying to incentivize buying the race change to skip the boring leveling.
Demon hunter.
It doesn’t have the greatest survivability, so the tryhards will scoff, but does solid damage and it’s mobility is insane.
It was a quick process. There's a dozen shortcuts including experience potions. The speed has been a big fault for years. How is it a fuck up when they're addressing a major complaint and it's received praise ever since it was announced?
Unless you're in the top 5% of players, levelling is pretty much impossible now due to this new levelling system SCAM.
Fuck Blizzard.
They've decreased the Xp required to level every single expansion. It's usually been by 35-40% iirc
>received praise ever since it was announced
It did.... and then it went live.
It turns out that we thought we wanted vanilla-style levelling, but we actually didn't.
>too easy
>too long
It's just like they want it short, but challenging. I know, crazy idea.
the more WoW fucks up, the more FFXIV grows.
>vanilla-style levelling
lol too funny that you actually think this. this makes me excited for Classic just to see the bewilderment from people like you
when i first read about this, i thought they were just gonna make it so zones would scale to your level, so you could finish a zone's story when you inevitably outleveled it, before leaving. instead, they made leveling take twice as long, and old raids needlessly difficult to solo. i should have known blizzard would pull something like this.
i've seen people on here defending this, and that's just baffling to me. "MUH CASUALS GIT GUD" is not an argument - this shit sucks and is a terrible change. it adds nothing to the leveling experience, it just makes it take longer.
Announce what Eureka will be like already, this is getting insane
>implying there are other people in Draenor
It's a tab targeting MMO that has removed all RPG elements. There isn't really any way to make it challenging. The "hard" parts of vanilla don't exist as mechanics anymore.
Or short and easy. Levelling isn't supposed to be a challenge, it's supposed to be a fun breeze to the actual challenge(endgame content).
Right now it's long and overly challenging. No one wants that.
Why couldn't they just make it 3-4 times as difficult but half the time it takes to go 1-110? Leveling in WoW is so fucking dull and now it's even worse because it's still not hard but it also takes about 50% longer. Unsubbed because of this patch, making alts is not fun.
>tfw M+ was what I wanted all along
>couldn't force myself to continue playing leejun because of the RNG
Please BFA, please just cut it out with the RNG. Having 11 different Angerbodas while trying to farm the best one wasn't fun. Just let me forge it to higher ilvl with a quest or something, puh lease.....
>, i thought they were just gonna make it so zones would scale to your level, so you could finish a zone's story when you inevitably outleveled it
It isn't?
>and old raids needlessly difficult to solo
Literally a bug that they've already stated they're fixing.
>RPG
>Hard
lmao
It's not close to vanilla style. You have to be retarded to think that. On top of that, it's still a fast process. I had a level 82 that I raised up to 90 yesterday and it was still half a level per dungeon. That plus questing during queues means you still barely step into a zone before moving on to the next. If anything it can be compared to how it is to get to the Broken Isles for the first time.
>breeze to the actual challenge(endgame content)
Mindset like this is what turned WoW into shit.
It is. Dude is a shitposter that doesn't even know what the patch does.
He's just trying to recycle arguments he saw in previous threads, but fucking it up.
>check the GD
A fucking thread complaining about hitting a mob "too many times to kill it" with massive upboats.
tomorrow...on twitch.
Yeah, I emphasized that with quotations so I'm not sure what you're adding.
What the fuck are you talking about? It's literally meant to stop people from going into old content and soloing them
This leveling change was a fucking disaster
If I wanted to play Dark Souls and die over and over again, I'd play Dark Souls. WoW isn't supposed to be like that, not when levelling at least.
retard
>implying RPGs are hard in any capacity
Neck yo self
activision
blizzard died 2012-2013
But I didn't imply that. That's what the quotations are there for user.
it clearly was blizzard intention because they had a PTR phase and someone in management had to approve the patch to go live, but once players caught on and whined they backpedaled on it.
Then good news, this patch turned it to not being shit for tryhards like you!
Blizz has chosen the hardcore audience over their own core subscribers, and will pay for it with tons of lost subs.
Too bad Yoshi-P keeps fucking up XIV by releasing half patches.
>Do Argus LFR
>People are having trouble with placements, cleaves and mitigation
This is the equivalent to a fucking XIV story trial or alliance raid, how do people fuck up this bad?
Those are the same people now whining that levelling is too hard.
whatever he's doing it's working.
>Naoki Yoshida: First and foremost, it’s not just the development team, but the internal operations team, PR and marketing team [that have contributed with this achievement]. We’ve updated the record subscriber numbers – the biggest since the A Realm Reborn launch. This is something we didn’t really expect. It’s not just that we are so happy about these results, but it was also quite a big surprise.
>And it’s not just a success in the business side of things, but we also received a metascore of more than 90%, and this is quite rare for an MMORPG to get such a high score. I’m so proud of the actual contents that the game has offered with Stormblood, the [latest] expansion.
New leveling seems more tedious if anything.
>tfw my 75 year old grandmother with MS and parkinsons and cancer can no longer play because of this patch
Thanks a lot blizz you fucking assholes
It's not even hard. It's just fucking long. Why the fuck would they increase leveling time by 500% for the pandaria content?
Who the fuck wanted that shit
>fix a major complaint
>wowwwwww you took too long CHANGE IT BACK FUCK YOU BLIZZARD
But it's not hard. It's just longer.
>clearly talking about WoW specifically
>realizes he's a moron and tries to backtrack
mein magen
Glad they made leveling longer. Maybe less fucking altfags shitting up my game.
You will play your one character and you will like it.
Nigga it took them all the way from classic to fucking Cataclysm to fix rogue's vanish
It was pretty shitty seeing people complain about having low ilevels but somehow made time or spent money to level 12 alts
bruh look at this dood
eu.battle.net
The new levelling system is so needlessly hard that it's taking groups over one HOUR to complete dungeons they could do in 5-10 minutes before the patch.
Zandalari Paladin confirmation when?
Rule #32 of MMOs: You can never revert or roll back QOL changes without massively pissing off the entire playerbase.
It won't take longer to level up- and if it does, it will be swiftly changed to speed up the pace significantly.
It should be hard so people bother to learn the game's basics. It's still not. They removed the proving grounds requirement to queue for heroic dungeons because then they could simply lock people out of mythics and quests, but that still puts them in the system so they eventually move up without knowing how to play.
It's better than ever, suck my cock.
Future Nightborne players, WW@?
An important clarification: The XP rates themselves haven't changed. When people say levelling is slower they mean is that they can't one shot enemies anymore and they can actually die, meaning they have to try over again.
People complaining about it being slower are just covering up their own incompetency.
...You're using GameFAQs to argue about popularity in 2018?
>tryhard
you're literally saying you don't want to play most of the game so you can get to the end to raid.
You're the tryhard faggot here, this update is for people who actually enjoy questing and shit; not some random dipshit like you just random dungeon queues up the ladder, tryhard faggot.
Get some self awareness stat boosts, cause holy fuck you're dense.
the issue is that old content is not hard, it's just more tedious now. enemies are HP sponges now.
That's a good thing. They more whiny babies crying on the forums, the better. It's a proven fact.
No, XP rates have changed too.
I like the changes, my friends and I really enjoying this, buy you're wrong on that aspect. Go check MMO-champion.
pubg isn't even there.
gamefaqs is irrelevant.
Can't wait for the classic servers, desu. The people who want it are in for a surprise.
It was too easy. Newbies weren't actually learning their characters and it made the whole process faster, but braindead
Oh no it takes 1 hour to level to 20 now as opposed to 30 minutes this is a travesty
>Major complaint
WoW's major audience are casuals now. Nobody who asked for this stayed, and the people who stayed will be leaving.
>Based Oberführer Hazzikostas continues his purge of normies
BfA is gonna be great.
oh boy I sure do love fighting enemies with fucked up HP values that provide 0 challenge and only waste my ticking subscription time
>go to fight Hogger at level 1
>he's scaled down to level 5
>he hits you for 5 damage
woah levelling is fixed
>how do people fuck up this bad?
They don't know the fight, and they don't have mods. That is how.
You think that kind of fight would have mechanics that anyone who played recent MMOs would be familiar with, no?
>Nobody who asked for this stayed
sounds like it was making people quit and a real problem that needed to be fixed then
>and the people who stayed will be leaving
lol