World of Warcraft is to become significantly more beginner-friendly with Shadowlands and also offer incentives to veteran WoW veterans to create and level up new characters. The popular online role-playing game wants that too Reduce grind and accelerate progress to maximum levels to reach.
Proof is provided by a player who is already playing the WoW: Shadowlands Alpha. In order to document the rise from the new char to the minimum level of the addon, he streamed the run on Twitch. Although changes to the speed of progress are still possible, the time required is currently considerably reduced.
This is how it works faster
For the release of the upcoming WoW expansion Shadowlands you do not have to bring your character to level 120 beforehand, i.e. the level cap of the current addon Battle for Azeroth. Over the course of its seven expansions to date, the maximum level in World of Warcraft has continued to increase, at least until now.
New level squish: With the eighth addon Shadowlands, the leveling of the character levels ends – a level squish ensures that the new upper limit is at level 60. And that shortens the grind considerably.
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Ready for Shadowlands in 12 hours
To start the new expansion, new players will need a character at level 50. This takes a lot less time than the quest grind at level 120, as the streamer DesMephisto demonstrated in his contribution to Reddit.
Get there quickly: The streamer already started at level 10 in the currently running Alpha from WoW: Shadowlands with a dark iron dwarf and had reached level 50 after just over 12 hours of play.
Particularly noteworthy: The streamer did not use heirlooms to speed up the level. Here, players can potentially save even more time by using the heirloom system.
Character boosts are the fastest
At WoW: Battle for Azeroth, Blizzard already offered an abbreviation so that newcomers don't have to play 100 hours before they can even see the new content. So owners could Character boost Create a character at level 110 and get started with BfA.
After all, a big entry hurdle would be something that could demotivate players before they even give the game a chance. You should also be able to purchase a character boost for the Shadowlands expansion in the Blizzard shop. For pre-orders of the heroic and epic edition, a boost is also included in the package.
A release date for Shadowlands is still pending. So far, it is only known that the eighth WoW addon over 2020 appears.