Comments on: Why Can’t I Drive 55?

By: Lienra

Lienra — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:01:34 +0000

One of the biggest concerns I’ve seen, and one I agree with, is with the problem of inexperienced players being handed higher level characters. I play a decent resto druid, but that’s because I’ve leveled with her and have a decent understanding of how to work in groups. When I hit 60 and moved on to Outland instances, it went incredibly smoothly, with 12 instance runs before I saw a wipe that could be blamed on my healing.

It’s expected that death knights are not going to be very experienced, but you’d assume that a level 70 warrior understands all of their abilities. Some people don’t learn, particularly those who’ve just coasted along on easy to level classes, but I allowing people to start new characters at 55 risks creating a wave of “ebayed toons”.

That said, I think they will need to speed up leveling, since WoW is becoming quite unfriendly towards new players. The fact that boost requests for the lower level instances have become incredibly common is a bad sign. People are either wanting to rush to Outland, or they’re having problems finding groups.

By: Rhene

Rhene — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:27:51 +0000

Change your Name is what I meant to say.

By: Rhene

Rhene — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:27:13 +0000

With one computer if you got her hooked you have to change your nate to Really Party Time Druid.

By: PTD

PTD — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:55:01 +0000

Believe me, I have tried to get my better half to play the game, but she has an utter disdain for anything video game. I can’t even get her to look at the computer, much less play WoW. Even if I did, though, we only have one PC anyhow.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:28:02 +0000

The one hitch with either power leveling or starting at 55 that I can think of (apart from all the lost world experiences and “ability training”) is reputation.

Reputation is a grind even at the best of times (like when you pick up up “accidentally” from doing all the low level quests. But to have to turn around at level 55, 70, 80 and go back an try to get Stormwind etc rep for a mount would drive me crazy. I was thinking about this while listening to TwistedNether about those Elekk mounts.

As for multi-boxing to take advantage of the increased leveling speed though family & friends… well, then you would also need the 2nd account and subscription. Any chance of getting your heavily pregnant better half to continue playing PTD?

By: PTD

PTD — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:01:55 +0000

@gnome

Exactly! A lot of people don’t understand how our time limitations affect our ability to level, either.

@astromoose

Wow, thanks! I was just trying to think of something that might make a LITTLE sense in the lore of the game. I hope Blizz is reading my blog, too!

@Dechion

Yeah, I just got that email this morning and have been reading it. It does sound great, but the problem is all my friends that would play already DO play. Hehe. Could you multi-box and take advantage of that, do you think? That would be crazy.

By: Dechion

Dechion — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:43:20 +0000

Good one PTD,
I am sure you heard about the new invite a friend right? I read about it yesterday and will likely post about it later. Triple experience for the first 60 levels or 90 days as long as they are partied wth an alt from the original account and both are present at the kill.

Oh, and a shiny epic Zevera mount to the referring account.

By: astromoose

astromoose — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:32:28 +0000

That’s the best thought-out idea for the mechanics of a non-DK lvl55 new character I’ve seen to date. Bravo, and fingers crossed that the powers that Blizz are reading!

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:24:55 +0000

Great Idea. I know you have similar time limitations to myself. So while following a grinding guide and levelling to 55 might only take the average wow player a couple of days… you and I are still in the 2 month grind.. don’t nothing else but trying to get an additional toon ready to roll.

If you are going to rush to get the toon to the end game, then you might as well take a bit more of the grinding out of it.