Blizzard has accelerated leveling in World of Warcraft. A large part of the leveling journey now requires significantly fewer experience points.
Since patch 7.3.5, leveling in World of Warcraft takes much longer than before. While some players enjoy the increased duration, there are also many who do not want to spend so much time on alternate characters to experience the endgame content. Blizzard acknowledged this criticism from players regarding patch 8.0 and has reduced the necessary experience points for leveling in the range of levels 40 to 100.
No exact indication of the amount of reduction. Blizzard has only revealed that the required experience between levels 40 and 100 has been reduced. However, the exact amount of the reduction has not been mentioned. According to initial reports from players, it roughly amounts to values between 10% and 20%.
Levels 60-80 were the biggest annoyance. Most of the problems players faced were in the level range from 60 to 80. Here, players had to roam Northrend or the Outland and leveling was significantly slower. Many players felt like they were “running into a wall.” Many fans were worried that newcomers would be deterred by this level range. The shorter stay in these zones should reduce the problem.
Display is still faulty. If you are currently leveling a character and do not see the changes to the required XP immediately, you do not need to worry. The display will still be faulty until the next patch, but the necessary experience points for leveling up should be calculated correctly after the hotfix.
In America, the hotfix is already live, while it usually goes live for us the following night – during maintenance on August 1, 2018.
Do you think it’s good that fewer experience points are now required? Or should leveling take longer instead of happening faster?
