This is a great boost for players interested in pulling friends in World of Warcraft for the first time. While that still sounds like a long time to spend grinding quests, that’s a very reasonable time sink for a more traditional, single-player RPG. Assuming the XP values stay the same, inexperienced players could jump into World of Warcraft and reach the most modern expansion in less than 20 hours. Leveling through an expansion typically only takes 6-12 hours, depending on your skill or knowledge of the area (some players are much faster). But players can visit a NPC to change their leveling track to another old expansion, like Wrath of the Lich King or Mists of Pandaria. The game defaults to the current expansion, Battle for Azeroth. For the remaining four levels, players can choose whatever experience they’d like to play through. Image: Blizzard Entertainmentįor the first 10 levels, players will either play the new player experience, Exile’s Reach, or opt to play their race’s starting zone instead. In 2019, Blizzard announced that players would choose a specific leveling period when crafting a new character - rather than playing through the game’s seven previous expansions. While it’s possible Blizzard could be inflating XP gains alpha testing, this speed lines up with some of Blizzard’s initiatives from BlizzCon last year. For players starting at level 1, the opening experience will take an additional hour. Finally, they reached level 50 - the level needed to start the new Shadowlands content - in 12 hours and 16 minutes. They hit level 30 at four hours and 57 minutes, and level 40 at eight hours and five minutes. So at level 20, their time read two hours and 33 minutes. By choosing the Dark Iron dwarf race, they started at level 10. Reddit user DesMephisto timed themselves leveling over the weekend and broke their time down into 10 level chunks. Now that players are in the alpha, we’ve seen confirmation of a 12-15 hour leveling experience with no XP items. For new players with no items or knowledge of what to do, leveling from level 1 to 120 can take nearly 80 hours.Īt BlizzCon 2019, Blizzard announced major changes to leveling experience - to go along with the level squish. Some players can drastically lower that time, but it’s still an extremely long experience.
Even with some items increasing my experience gains, and my knowledge of old zones, it’s taken me over two days of in-game time to reach max level before. In my own experience, current World of Warcraft leveling can be a multi-day slog. And with the squish, players have discovered a much shorter journey from starting the game to reaching max level. In addition to testing new zones and content, they’ve also started experimenting with the level squish changes, which takes World of Warcraft’s current level max of 120 down to 50 - up to 60 with the Shadowlands expansion. Players have been testing the new World of Warcraft expansion for nearly a week now in the Shadowlands alpha.
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