Woot! Mounts at level 20 for 5 gold, epic land at lvl 40, 150% speed normal flyers at level 60 in 3.2!!!

[MiRai]

Content is too easy? How's Algalon going for your guild?

I am so glad they have Algalon in Ulduar...something difficult in this game. Just wait until he gets nerfed after all servers have Celestial Defenders.

[Marathon]

Thank God mounts I can actually afford without hours of farming

[Enndo]

Well.. this is good and all.. but its another case of blizz screwing over long time customers who had to wait til 40 and pay 100g you didnt have by than, than pay 1000g at 60 which back than was hard to come by (no dailys back than) so that they can please new customers. Like RAF, all though great for boxers, i remember putting in a ton of time and energy to level (while also forcingyou to learn your class). Just like with current raids, they made them so easy for new players that they are boring for long time players. This game is going down hill just because blizz is more worried about pleasing new customers than caring about anything long time customers have to say. While they're at it they should start toons off with enough money to at least by your first few spells from trainers lol.

[stoat]

150% flyers are great, no need to spend 30k now. Kind of sad this is announced now though, just bought epic ground/regular flyers a few weeks ago.

[Starbuck_Jones]

I don't see this a screwing over anyone. The game is aging and if they don't make changes like this to keep it accessible to potentially new customers then the atrophy of customers will increase, life isnt fair but you dont see me complaining that kids in Jr. High have cell phones when they didnt exist when I went. Makeing it quicker for people to get around as well as level through 4 year old content is in everyone's best interest. No established customer outside of just doing it because they can would want to slog through the old school grind to 60 when the running average was about 10 days played time before all the XP changes. Speed levelers could do it faster, but everyone I played with 10 days is about what it took. That's about how long it takes now to get to 80.

What they need to offer is flight point training for vanilla wow. A new DK magicaly gets every FP in the game, yet if you want to make a new Hunter or other class, you have to spend hours getting your flight points, Hell I dont even have like a 1/3 of them on my guys.

I would like to see a pair of new starting zones for each faction that is quest chained like the DK starting area, but this one is for all other classes so you can just start a new guy at 55 like the DK's and start retooling some of vanilla wow to the level 80 game. Why is it we can defeat old gods, Aspects, and Epic evil, but we cant take back Gnomeron from a bunch of Troggs?

[Taliesin]

Just in case anyone missed the philosophy they are trying to adhere to, about 2 years ago now they stated that they wanted to slowly accelerate the lower content over time so as to keep the general time it takes to hit max level roughly the same even with the release of new expansions. This means these types of updates will continue to roll in as long as new content is being rolled out. Reducing the xps needed for levels 1-60 was the start, then 61-70, and I expect to see a similar change for 71-80 around the time the next major expansion is set to hit store shelves. Same goes for mounts. I won't be surprised if they get tweaked again another year from now or so.

The majority of people leveling up are not spending the time to actually enjoy all the original world storylines like people did at release. I'm kinda glad that Blizzard is adapting the game to how people play today, rather than how they did 4 years ago. If they hadn't made all these changes up until now, I would absolutely dread trying to start any new character in this game. RAF would be the only thing that would come close to saving it for me. The game has enough new time sinks being added in that help offset removing some of the older ones.

I'm glad they are making changes like this. It helps keep this game interesting to me. I don't intend to be the 80 year old guy sitting on my porch yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

[Zal]

i'd still buy the epic fliers, buts that me because i'm retardedly rich. Also like starbuck said it is good idea to keep the game easier for newbies to level considering blizzard just lost about ~5 million subscribers from The9 no longer hosting servers in china.

[Enndo]

You guys both make great points but my point that long time players had to spend a ton of time doing stuff new players get to basically skip is also valid. A way to correct this would be if blizzard made achievement points useful. Like being able to get a mount with them or something.

[Taliesin]

You guys both make great points but my point that long time players had to spend a ton of time doing stuff new players get to basically skip is also valid. A way to correct this would be if blizzard made achievement points useful. Like being able to get a mount with them or something.

True. I've always felt they should add some sort of non-game impacting rewards to the game for achievement points to make old content hold at least SOME value, even just for novelty. New mount models, pets, fun gadgets, titles, or whatever. It at least gives a little incentive to go and look at the older content, even if people still don't really even pay attention to the story behind it all.

[Turenn]

blablabla, this is just new content. What came in the past or how things used to be don't matter at all. I think it's great that they lower the cost and level requirements of mounts. Many of you sound like those retarded MC raiders back in the day. I'd rather have new content, less time leveling alts then denying some lowbies their cheap mounts. Wow is evolving into a casual game more and more, and I think it's a great thing. Remember when you had to farm hours and hours just to have gold for repairs and consumables? and in those days there were no battle and defense limits....it was expected that you showed up with all the buff available.

I just feel like this is turning into more of a real game now then it was in the beginning. It's maturing and one of the highest wish from all players whilst leveling up is to get a mount sooner and cheaper. Great work blizz