wow New Players Can Skip Leveling in Battle for Azeroth Zones from 10 to 45

[Stan 5,019]

Chromie Time is disabled for new players, and it is recommended to level from 10 to 50 in Battle for Azeroth zones, but what are your alternatives when you don't want to?

Battle for Azeroth zones are perfect for leveling and offer a good chunk of experience, but if you don't want to level in those zones, you can totally skip BfA content and level up your character in the old zones, up to level 45. Do note that the leveling process in the old world will take longer, as BfA leveling experience is more streamlined. You will still need to level up in BfA from 45-50.

Here's a look at level scaling of the zones in the game without Chromie Time.

• Vanilla, TBC, and Wrath zones scale from 10-30;
• Cataclysm zones scale from 30-35;
• MoP zones scale from 10-35;
• WoD zones scale from 10-40;
• Legion zones scale from 10-45;
• BfA zones scale from 10-50.

Source: Reddit

[Lithari 194]

Or, this is an idea....you know, not FORCE them into BfA and allow them to use Chromie time and in my opinion, you should allow people to STAY in Chromie Time when they reach level 50 and not FORCE them out of it.

[Frogspoison 63]

4 hours ago, Lithari said:

Or, this is an idea....you know, not FORCE them into BfA and allow them to use Chromie time and in my opinion, you should allow people to STAY in Chromie Time when they reach level 50 and not FORCE them out of it.

This is Blizz. According to Blizz, you don't play your way, you only play the way Blizz meant for you to.

[Lithari 194]

3 hours ago, Frogspoison said:

This is Blizz. According to Blizz, you don't play your way, you only play the way Blizz meant for you to.

I know, i know, I am not really a smart person, but even i thought of this the moment Chromie Time was a thing, but Blizzard, being Blizzard totally misses the opportunity to use it the best possible way.

[Gortan 37]

7 hours ago, Frogspoison said:

This is Blizz. According to Blizz, you don't play your way, you only play the way Blizz meant for you to.

Yes. Because, you know... They made the game. A game has rules. Ergo, they make the rules.

[SidonisAntares 288]

5 hours ago, Gortan said:

Yes. Because, you know... They made the game. A game has rules. Ergo, they make the rules.

However, when you make something to streamline old content to get people caught up to Shadowlands faster, force all new players into one expansion, and allow existing players to choose other expansions, you are funneling veterans away from new players while isolating new players into a zone that doesn't have any real benefits in the game play experience to a new player compared to more popular zones such as Legion/WoD/MoP.

Combine that with the separate but equal dungeon queues with the 15 minute restriction on them before seeking out other queues, and you're actually giving new players a worse experience than veterans since its going to be mostly newbies playing with each other for 40 levels and bumbling their way through it.

Bumbling while leveling is okay for a brand new game, and okay to a degree for an existing game, but if your entire goal of streamlining the leveling experience is to get people to Shadowlands content faster, this is counterproductive to that.

As for the remaining in Chromie time at 50, while I understand the desire to have that lvl 50 talent in the old content, there is also nothing stopping anyone from going to Org/SW and turning off XP gains while 49 if they want to remain in Chromie time.

Edit - if it's not the lvl 50 talent point, I know for a fact from having just leveled a warrior through Chromie Time in Legion that all end of leveling content becomes available at lvl 45, such as Uniting the Isles (WQ), Suramar, Broken Shore, Argus, etc. So you don't need to be lvl 50 in Chromie Time to access that content.

Edited November 9, 2020 by SidonisAntares