🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 05:51:54 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <be5ber...@mid.individual.net> 
>  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>> Instant 90, well, ok, it's just one character so fair enough 
>
>This is just silliness. Leveling is not at all interesting, challenging,
>or rewarding. it is just a slog to max level at which point you can
>start gearing up. Making you slog 100 levels for all but one toon? No
>thanks. I've still not leveled a panda past about 35 because I just
>cannot face doing outland and northrend again.

Yet some of us do find it interesting, and think the world would be a
poorer place if everyone bypassed it on every alt, and particularly if
newer players never even saw all the storylines and places that make
the game so interesting. One boosted character is quite enough IMO.
Personally I'd have zero connection with an instant 90 character since
I'd spent no time on it, and it wouldn't feel like mine. So your view
is not the only one ;-)

>Once I get a toon to max level I should be able to start any toon I want
>at about Max-15, that I would do.

I guess perhaps fair enough if it's conditional on having a max lvl
character, but since this works for returning and new accounts with no
high lvls, one is plenty. I reckon it's more intended for
newer/returning folk than us who've been playing all along, anyway.

>The last time I ground through Northrend was for my worgen lock, and it
>will be the *last* time I do it too. I leveled my Paladin from 45ish-85
>purely tanking instances just to avoid having to do zones for the 47th
>time.

Northrend and Outland, I'm with you, although I can still find variety
by picking zones I haen't done in several years, but 1-60, no, those
were freshened up not that long ago, it's easy enough to find a path
you've not done far too many times there. Unless you levelled tons of
alts after Cataclysm; many of mine were before it so only a few have
done the redone zones. In any case, this whole thing isn't really for
altaholics (it's just a handy bonus for them), it's for people who
haven't seen everything yet, so why on earth should it give everyone a
permanent bypass to stuff they've not done and so aren't bored of?
Once works fine there.

>>and I for one still enjoy levelling, but one is a fair enough idea to
>>get people up to speed if they want it. I don't much like the idea of
>>making an instant 90 of a new character for me, as I'd have no
>>connection to it, but what I *may* do is use it on my draenei priest,
>>who is stuck at 71 atm. That being said, they said something about
>>clearing questlogs and I still have the original questchains which I
>>*believe* will lead me to Hand of A'dal/Champion of the Naaru, so tbh I
>>don't think I can risk losing those. Oh well, I'll just have to get
>>levelling the normal way, because I really really want to play that
>>character on Draenor! 
>
>I don't think it is possible to finish Hand of A'Dal anymore, even if
>you still have the quest.

It is, at least people have been doing it up until very recently. You
have to have the *original* questline, not the one which replaced it
(same quests but different quest ID markers), and I have the
originals. It may not work out, as I don't know how far on in the
chain you had to be to be able to reach the end, but I am definitely
on the right line at present, it just remains to be seen if I can get
to the end or not.