If there's one thing that grinds my gears about current-day World of Warcraft, it's that you gain experience way too fast and there's no option available to halve the amount of experience you get so you can slow down a little.
I mean, it's great if you want to start a new character and get it to end-game as quick as possible... but, I don't. I want to start a new character and learn all of its abilities, slowly. Not jump 10 levels within an hour and get overwhelmed by all the new things.
It's for this reason I've never boosted a character, neither have I spec-changed a character I already have. I'm a pretty slow person who needs to level something right from the start and slowlyyyy learn and understand what I'm doing and what each ability does, and what each talent point will do for the abilities.
There are other people on the Blizzard forums, on Reddit, and on the MMORPG forums asking for an option to slow down the experience, so I'm not alone in this wish... but, of course, there is the influx of people who can't understand why we would want it to slow down, neither do they understand that what we're asking for is an option to do so. We're not demanding that everyone suffer with what we want; we merely want the option available.
"Go play Classic, then."
"You know there's an option to turn off XP gain, right?"
Neither responses are helpful.
There are a couple of constructive suggestions that would be amazing if the developers popped their heads into the threads. Suggestions such as a hardcore character, or "mythic" levelling. There could even be a cosmetic reward, mount or achievement at the end. Those playstyles are implemented in the private server: Ascension, so I don't see why it would be so difficult to implement in proper retail World of Warcraft.
Another idea could be an "anti-heirloom" that you can equip for stats that upgrade as you level, but it greatly lowers the experience gained as opposed to increasing the experience gained like they used to.
What brought on this complaint/rant? I'm trying to level a class I've only slightly dabbled in before (warlock) and I want to get the hang of it in the hopes I'll have something else to gear up alongside my warrior once the next Mythic season starts, but I feel as though the entire experience is rushed — I mean, I can literally be level 50 within a day — and it's overwhelming and I don't want to play a class I don't fully understand.
What I do understand now is why there are so many people out there who don't know the basics of their chosen class. I can only assume it's because of this ridiculous haste in levelling. I pity any brand new players to this game.
Until next time! ⚔️