The time walking in World of Warcraft is active and allowed you to reach the maximum level in no time. Blizzard didn’t like that.
In modern World of Warcraft, the main part of the game takes place in the endgame. Before a character reaches level 60, many activities like Mythic+, rated PvP, or raids cannot be enjoyed at all. Many solo content such as world quests or the storyline campaign also requires the maximum level.
Especially on second characters, leveling can often be annoying and time-consuming, as you already know the areas. So a method of “Turbo-Leveling” came just in time.
What’s going on right now? In World of Warcraft, there is an event every week that focuses on a specific type of content. This week it is the “time walking: The Burning Crusade”. Players can sign up for the old dungeons from the first WoW expansion and still get good loot that they can use at the current level.
What was special about it? What stood out the most was that the dungeons dropped a hell of a lot of experience points. Characters between levels 50 and 60 received a whopping 300,000 to 450,000 experience points per dungeon – which takes about 20 to 30 minutes. That’s in many cases more than a level per dungeon.
In the WoW subreddit, for example, “powerfulnoun” explained that he leveled from level 55 to 60 in just 3 dungeons.
Combined with the current XP bonus from the Darkmoon Faire, it was even a little more.
What happened then? As soon as the topic gained some attention in the subreddit and over wowhead, the hotfix came. Blizzard released an update just a few hours after the Turbo-Leveling became known and drastically reduced the XP gained after a time walking dungeon. It now takes much longer if you want to level up using this method.
This is how the players react: Some players are angry that some have “revealed” this trick in the subreddit and believe that it was the first to attract Blizzard’s attention. As usual, the “Fun Detected” meme is brought out, where players accuse Blizzard of immediately “fixing” fun content while important issues remain for weeks and months.
Did you want the event to level up characters? Or do you already have everything at 60 that you want to play?
