In World of Warcraft, leveling is fast. But one player sets records in Shadowlands. Now he needs less than 4 hours …
With World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, the leveling experience is completely redesigned. The player DesMephisto is currently testing in the Alpha and is breaking one leveling record after another. Just a few days ago, we reported that he leveled from level 10 to level 50 in 5 hours and 37 minutes (equivalent to level 20-120 in the live version). Now he has easily broken this record as well.
What kind of record is that? DesMephisto leveled a new character as an allied race in the expansion “Warlords of Draenor”. He only needed 3 hours and 37 minutes there – which makes him a full 2 hours faster than his old record in the areas of Battle for Azeroth.
Why is leveling even faster? Since the last update of the Alpha, the feature “Chromie Time” is active. Players can now choose an expansion of their choice and level solely based on this expansion.
DesMephisto chose Draenor here. There are particularly many treasures lying around and there is a high density of bonus missions that grant a lot of experience points. Additionally, especially in Gorgrond, there is a series of elite enemies that drop individual quest starters, thus promising numerous XP “on the side”.
Will it stay like this? That’s rather unlikely. Blizzard wants all options to provide approximately the same leveling speed, and one must – more or less – play through all areas of an expansion. Therefore, it is to be expected that the XP in Draenor will scale down significantly and the required time will increase in a future patch.
It must be clearly stated that the current scaling does not look final yet and many nuances are still not optimal. For instance, the garrison hearthstone can only be used starting at level 35, even though you receive it around level 12.
Would you find this new leveling speed good and reasonable? Or should Blizzard drastically extend the duration of the leveling phase?
