Leveling in World of Warcraft is being accelerated, and even more so than initially thought. In comparison, even the early days of Legion seem like a joke.
The upcoming Patch 8.1 Tides of Vengeance for World of Warcraft brings many improvements to the leveling system. At the center is a significant reduction of the required experience points needed for leveling up. In most areas, the XP requirements are reduced.
On Reddit, the user Valrysha took the effort to compare the changes in experience points not only with Patch 8.0 and 7.3.5 but also with Patch 7.0, which many considered the “golden age of twinking.”
A quarter less XP needed: The comparison between the necessary XP between Patch 7.0 and Patch 8.1 is particularly interesting. Here too, the difference is enormous. Overall, the necessary XP across all “old” levels (i.e. between 1 and 110) decreases by a whopping 28.62% – in the direct comparison between Patch 7.0 and Patch 8.1. This means the necessary experience points to reach the maximum level are lower than ever before.
These new values are further favored by the scaling of all areas. This ensures that quests are always “at the appropriate level,” thus granting full XP, giving leveling an extra boost.
Why are there these changes? Since Patch 7.3.5, leveling in World of Warcraft feels more sluggish than before. Back then, all areas were adapted to scale with player levels, while simultaneously the required XP per level was drastically increased. This caused significant displeasure among players who have since been reluctant to start new alt characters.
When these changes go live, leveling Twinks through questing in Patch 8.1 should be faster than ever in World of Warcraft. It looks like a good time for everyone who likes to have many characters. You can find Valrysha’s complete table with all the changes in our sources.
Patch 8.1 is coming next month, by the way.
We have introduced the best leveling areas here:
Are you looking forward to the changes and will you level new Twinks with Patch 8.1? Or are you not interested in this at all in WoW?
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