HUGE Leveling Changes in the War Within Pre-Patch 

It's subtle, but interesting that they chose 71 to end chromie time. I would like to think it's blizzard giving you the option to wrap up what you're doing once you hit 70 instead of having to abandon your entire quest log. Convenient! I approve.

i wish they had a chromie questline that was just a "the story so far" type thing. a questline where you run scenarios detailing the most important events/questlines/instances from each expansion up to now. you could run it on any character at any time. it wouldnt be able to get everything obviously but it would help a lot for new, old and returning players. you could even make scenarios that are mockups of warcraft 1-3 events, or shit from the books. would only take a few hours to complete the entire questline.

This is how they reel me in to level alts again.

Please make it so I can set certain mounts to dynamic, and others to classic flying.

Dragonflight as the default leveling experience is actually a good idea imo. It doesn't have the "HERO, YOU SAVED US COUNTLESS TIMES" vibe like BFA does that makes new players extremely confused. I hope they continue to basically make all previous expansions obsolete and only accessible if you want to, and STOP referencing things that happened with the player character before a certain time (I guess in this case Dragonflight)

They missed their chance to call 420 speed flying “blazing high”

I‘m excited! Now all we need is a Chromie Time revamp, or maybe make some type of WoW remix the default leveling style for alts

Nice! Although I do think that switching between TBC flight and dragonriding (whatever it's called) should be instant cast.

It's gonna hurt having to manually switch flying styles. Having dragonflight and normal mounts immediately accessible is really handy.

The best thing I saw here is the "Space Ghosts by the Coast" quest name. Makes me wanna watch Space Ghost real bad.

I'm lowkey mega excited about the reg flying on dracthyr. Being able to just hover with the wings is such a nice change.. plus, flying at lightspeed as a tiny druid in owl form sounds fantastic.

Looking forward to this

If DF is the default 10-70, why can you ALSO do it with Chromie time? What’s the difference? 🤨

Good even though leveling in retail is extremely fast it still feels like a pointless chore and classes don't feel fun until you're 60-70 with the full toolkit of spells.

it didnt get mentioned in the video. are evoker still going to be 1 per realm?

Can you use the warband bank for gold to use the AH or vendors to buy stuff? Or do I have to go withdraw first?

I love dragon isles but I restarted playing in season 3. I am very happy that it will become 10-70 so I can level up alts there and experience it again, hopefully doing the story quests in order this time.

dracthyr going to level 10 probably means that there will no longer be a limit on how many you can make. Right now it is 1 per server.

You had me at "You don't have to do your last 10 levels in dragonflight anymore." I don't hate the content- but god damn if I'm not bored after having to do the exact same 4 zones, on EVERY alt.

Nice!!

does the warbank (tm) work cross realm? and have Goblins got a new perk since everyone has access to the bank anywhere now?

Darn I lost my ability to switch to druid flight form mid air when I ran out of vigor lol

What do you think of the leveling changes coming in the War Within Pre-Patch? twitch.tv/MrGM

I like that flying speed gets faster even for the regular flight style. Personally, I dislike dynamic flying. It's fun once, but doing it all the time is too much work and gets me motion sickness.

waht about secondary professions? like fishing? Will my warbands alts still have to fish to have the max skill?

What is that yards per sec speedometer you get when flying, is that an addon or part of the expansion?

I wouldn't be surprised if the change for chromie time going to 71 is so heirlooms can click over to the new gear paradigm in the future where heirlooms go to 79.

Zeppelins are what could interest me over dragons. They could be the player housing, just park it anywhere. Customization must be a thing, and it could hold your achievements like a trophy case. There could also be 1v1 arena inside and other minigames. How about a game of chess, Warcraft details, as minigames.

This all sounds good. Kinda makes me want to play again.

the scouting maps have never worked for me, any tips? i get an error message "Not ready yet"

So as soon as prepatch hits I can do legacy raids and get all the Transmog? Or is that only on full release?

As a level 60 returning player do i instantly unlock dragon riding when i log in or do i have to still unlock it?

idk if anyone has the answer to this, but when the pre-patch hits, will we be able to move all our bronze to one remix character ?

I wish option with chromie that you can go and scale selected expansion to your character. I wish to do Loremaster on max level character playing new expansion and for relax "switch" timeline and do ex. TBC or dreanor not insta killing enemies. I know there could be an issue with some group quests (as it may require a bit of rework). Just scaling open zopnes to your character level as a Chromie toggle with her could bring much more fun :)

How does the warband achievement work? if i got an achievement on one character will it on my all characters?

You need skyriding in dragon islands to do the quests, one in particular so makes sence you have acsses to it.

Nice video but I don't think I need to level anymore in pre patch 😂 ik have made 12 level 70's in remix and that puts up a total of 42 70's so yeah I think I'm set😬

When this come live guys? I'm pretty interested in leveling but it's very slow

They need to add Heroic/Mythic leveling mode which makes mobs tougher... You get rewards when you reach max lvl or something

Good Content

The only thing that sucks about this is the timing as it means the pre patch & perhaps the expansion launch itself is likely to happen while MOP remix is still ongoing.

Im very sad Zaralek and Emerald dream doesnt scale at all. 6 zones for 60 levels are way better than 4 only. Also you could complete the whole dragonflight campaign.

Losing my ability on my druid to flip into static flying flight form in mid-air in a split second is gonna be very painful.

What day is prepatch?

I wish they’d make it easier to freeze your levels, I don’t wanna over level out of certain zones if I’m exploring older content

I wish they would apply the lvling/xp adjustments whenever they have them fully designed instead of waiting for prepatchs, reducing the xp with the war within is cool and all but it makes lvling alts NOW feel like a waste of my time if in a months time I could accomplish it in under half the time. Which is effectively what is being done, you say its about the same speed it would be now but that's not true, it would be comparable to the 1-60 right now which is only like a half of the lvling time currently. Even on a hyper optimized lvling route right now its about 3-4 hours for 1-60 and then another 2-3 hours for 60-70 assuming you have average luck with dream surges, Cutting the 60-70 xp needed by that much effectively takes like 3+ hours off your lvling time doing an optimized lvling route and even more if your just casually lvling.

Does this mean that you can do the dungeon related quests through follower dungeons mode to level? 🤔

such a blizzard move to make switching the flight modes a pain in the ass just make it instant cast and be able to do it while mounted.

nice you play pandaren is my favorite

will we be able to make more than one dracthyr per server ?

Wonder if warband bank will work cross-faction and/or cross realms. Would finally help getting gold over to new toons.

steady flying at lvl 20 gives me hope cause I HATE dragonflying

Make some extra characters in MOP Remix of classes you want and run a normal raid a day on as many as you'd like. I plan to have a high cape and see if I can go from 30 to 70 on them using the "don't pick up bonus xp" trick. I enjoy playing as different races now because of how easy MOP Remix has been. If they lower it more in pre patch, maybe I'll make something besides blood elves and void elves.

Regarding Skyriding, do you automatically have Whirling Surge and stuff for fresh accounts? Most people unlocked all the skills by doing the campaign but for fresh accounts that leveled up through dungeons you don't actually get all the abilities (and Nokhud/Tindral require a friend to carry you lol). Just not sure if those are going to automatically unlock or what

Sorry if i didnt hear it or miss it this is live now ?

Not related to the video @MrGM but, when i middle click your username on RU-vid, it opens a page with 404 error, this only happens with your channel for some reason lol

I'm interested in the pre-patch but have never done it before. What are the requirements for this event pls?

I'm wondering, does the addition of "Battle for Azeroth" and "Shadowlands" to Chromie mean that Timewalking events will appear too ?

The reduction in XP is the same thing they always do. They do this XP change every expansion to keep the length of leveling the same.

Is chromie time like you experiencing the lore in an abridged version to level up? Idk anything about WoW since i mainly played wc3

You know, I’m a casual WoW player now and have been for a decade since starting a family. I wish Blizzard would allow me to “rebirth” my character. I usually main a Prot Pally, but would like to try the Ret changes coming. It would be easier for me learn the class re-leveling the character rather than creating another one and deleting when I cap. One of the better things I liked playing Diablo 3 was the ability to do that for a seasonal character and try the new things in that season. Let me keep my gear and gold, put it in the bank then give it back when I cap. Similar to the level boost inventory items you get.

Can Jeeves access the warband bank?

Maybe this is a hot take but i would love that they rise the level of older zone to 60-50 to not oneshot things in some old mission like on wotlk

are they gonna squish the dmg numbers ? its kinda strange doing 4mil dps

good changes

i still haven't heard the change where you play more than ONE dracthyr

Just feels like Blizz are trying to make the new patch features looks like a revolution in the game as the things they're putting into the game was things we're asking for years. It's nice thought, but man... this game has more than 20 years. Took all this time to make the characters share some progress? 😅😅😅😅 I hope the storytelling is rewarding, and that there are fewer daily mechanics that turn the game into a job again.

So, dragonriding automatically applies to ALL mounts now? Currently, playing MoP Remix, I was enjoying the ability to choose between steady and dragonriding just by which mount I call out. I don't think I enjoy the idea of having to cast a spell to keep switching every time I want to change my flight style, that sounds like annoying tedium. The rest of the stuff is awesome, though. I have *A TON* of alts I never touched during Dragonflight, because of just how sloggy the leveling system felt, and the fact reputations were still not account-wide. Now that they are, I wouldn't mind working on said alts again.

should of been retroactive. that xp bonus thing. had like 8 level 120s. cmon man.

Is mage tower dead in the pre patch ?

NOOOO!!! My favorite part of making a new character is using the scouting maps and spamming achievements in the chat 😭

neat

I keep going backwards for me. My favorite part of this game is always been leveling. And every expansion it gets faster and faster to level. We have level boost, we don't need faster leveling.

Any word on how the new quest log works? like, if you're quest 3 out of 10 chain on one toon, and then log in with an alt, can you just pick up? ie: the done quests will be grey, so you know they're done on another toon but not the current one so you can redo them, but how will you know what quests you're on as a player, and where in a chain? ie: is it one shared quest log (would be awesome), or more likely each toon has their own questlog like today, just that quests completion is shared. So is there no way for one toon to know where to go picking up a quest chain in the middle? ie: I'd like to be able to just log in and quest with whichever toon I like, and just keep going .. not have to figure out which uests to pick up at. Or does this even work?

I don’t like that we’ve reach level 80 again and millions of health Stat squish 2.0 incoming ?

Can you play the pre-patch without buying the War Within expansion?

Whens the prepatch?

The best use of in-game-time until TWW is speed running every class to 70 in Mists Remix.

Okay so my level 10 dracthyr from timerunning isn't gonna be special lol

I really want to be able to just........play leveling at a nice pace... I guess ill still stick with classic, to enjoy completion etc. Everything about retail wants us to rush to end game, and I dont care about the end, I want the journey back. #FreshClassic ftw

Yo can we get some death knight lore or some more flavor. Hero class has been forgotten lol .

I have 1 issue.... considering Remix.. Pandara.. how/why are Pandaria reps not Warbanded in the prepatch? seems daft, personally.

Doesn't mean all that much for me, leveled every class to max in DF. Disappointed that I didn't get an account achievement for it. :/

will they merge realms? in tww

People are gonna level to 70 in like 40 minutes on mop remix xd

Prepatch: July 23rd

Is having a bank alt still a good idea?

i think the extra xp achievement is a cool idea but i hope u can turn it off. cuz imagine u leveling with ur friend and u just casually level 25% faster

Levelling Levelling and more Levelling, no journey, just Levelling.

Who would even use a flight path at this point? Flying at level 10 lol

I know I know, it's not their focus and I am not pretending that it does need to be BUT you don't know how much this expansion benefits the f2p community.

I Never understood why do blizz speeding up leveling..leveling is still super fun tbh, i dont like getting levels after killing 10 mobs and no, i dont want to play Classic i just want to play retail, want appriciate character that i leveld up

1440p videos please

Early squad 🫡

Can they just let regular flying go faster already.

Well that kills that idea, I want nothing to do with this dragonflight crap again.

Flight path account wide huge QoL +

Really wish they'd change the Toy C/Ds. So annoying, they are toys why a sled needs a c/d makes no sense for example. Who care how often someone uses the vast majority of them. Its for fun

The pre-patch features look good. The pre-patch event looks MEH.