New XP changes on beta to lengthen level times.

[Kiljaedon]

I was just reading up on the beta forums about how they increased the xp required each level by roughly 80%. And from my understanding a good portion of quests are collect. From what I have read its a huge number of quests compared to what it use to be. 40% or so of all solo quests are now collect. I honestly feel that a boxed team might hit 80 faster then normal players if you spend your time in the dungeons. From my understanding there are easy dungeons with linear 1-3 man pulls that can be burned down might let us have the advantage over hitting 80 before the others do. It will be glorious not having to fight for spawns the first few months of the game with the swarm of people trying to tap monsters first before you do. I guarantee you I will be in all instances while the fray are outside slaughtering each other for collections safe and snug.

[Biz]

Yep yep. I've been on Operation Gear Tank for a bit now.

[Syro]

Proof please....

[Kiljaedon]

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...=2000&pageNo=1

Seems like proof enough for the xp changes.

Unlike the Burning Crusade Beta I was in when they changed the xp curve so that they could test level content without everyone jumping to the 70 mark the blues posted on the reasoning of the changes. But once they ultimately tweaked the near final numbers on what would be pushed to live with the Burning Crusade Launch all of the blue posts mysteriously vanished. Almost like it has now. The post has been live a little while now without a single response so my magic eight ball suspects that will be about the change they plan to make. According to alot of beta testers right now it is around 13-14 hours a level and requiring them to clean out nearly every zone to finish level range the area was made for.

[BobGnarly]

I've haven't went past 71 yet, but it's not 14 hrs per level. It is slow, and I'd say slower than BC, but it's not that bad (yet).

[Aradar]

Instance grinding from the get go eh? Good idea.

I did this BC and it worked out perfectly, as I reached honored with each faction I moved on to the next group of faction instances but if you had to grind even past getting rep, that would suck.

[Stabface]

Eh, 14 hours/level = ~6 days /played from 70->80. A bit slower than the initial TBC 60->70 but to be honest not that bad.
I pushed pretty hard in TBC, a Rogue geared with full T2 + TF, and solo it took me around 4 days /played or so.
I just recently finished casually leveling a Warlock solo on a new server with some RL friends and it took 6 days /played total, wasn't that bad at all.


My biggest concern is that there are 8 instances from 60-70 but currently only 5 between 70-80. Maybe they will implement more, I'm not sure what's planned... but time is quickly running out if they aren't going to slip the release date.

[Kiljaedon]

Yes but the point i was trying to make was the huge increase in collection based quests when boxing. Plus the first few weeks most areas are crowded with the rush from 70-80. I am thinking instances will be the way to go to hit 80 unless there is a huge gap in instances like you were speaking of.

[mikekim]

Lets not also forget that when the XP cap moves to 80, the existing dungeons will give easy XP :thumbsup:

[Los]

But as always the newer instances would give more xp, same difference when tbc started.

How did i see a gm put that, he had compared it to water, its the same water just more of it to get .