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In message <da56ha...@mid.individual.net> 
  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 02:13:08 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>>In message <da4q0h...@mid.individual.net> 
>>  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Some pretty interesting stuff in the panel just now (when I finally
>>> got through the nonstop buffering, for a paid stream it was awful...),
>>> IF the reality lives up to it, then I think Legion will at least be an
>>> improvement on WoD,
>>
>>That is what is known as "damning with faint praise."

> Well, it's me trying not to get overly optimistic after being so badly
> let down last time. I actually really like the sound of it! But I also
> liked the sound of WoD....

>>the only interesting thing that I've heard so far is that Blizzard will
>>no longer release subscriber numbers.
>>
>>Yep, that's a sure sign they're doing well!

> Or they're bored of the feeding frenzy and screams of "WoW is
> dying!!!" every single time, no matter whether it goes well or
> badly... but yeah, timing on that change is interesting.

>>> Scaling mobs/zones below lvl 110, so you can do the levelling zones in
>>> any order (hooray, might be the first expansion since Wrath that it's
>>> actually bloody playable on my server then, if we all spread out
>>> across 4 zones instead of 4k+ people all trying to do the same few
>>> quests at once), and rewards likewise scale. I especially like the
>>> sound of *everything* then being usable as max lvl content, always
>>> found it a shame that you rarely go back to some pretty cool zones,
>>> just because they're low lvl.
>>
>>This applies to ALL the zones? I was told that this was for the starting
>>zones (up to level 98 or so) only and that it specifically did NOT apply
>>to the new content.

> Other way was what I understood - new content only, not old content,
> at least there was no mention of anything below the Legion zones. It's
> *definitely* for the new content, since they made a point of it being
> that you can do the new zones in whatever order you want, instead of
> always having to take much the same route. 

OK. As I implied, my info is second-hand.

> I look forward to that one on two fronts: one, less overcrowding in
> the Horde starter zone on my server, and two, much as I like questing,
> it gets boring doing the exact same stuff on each alt, and you always
> have to do a big chunk of the first zone in order to get high enough
> to reach the 2nd or 3rd zones, it'll be nice to vary which zones I do
> now.

Yeah, it sounds like an improvement. I doubt I will be buying it, though
maybe I will. Maybe.

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