Perfect video thanks a lot! Used to play heavily back in the Wotlk days, returned at the end of Legion and have been thinking of checking it out again. I'm a casual player and love solo content and your video has made me want to get back in! Great video!
As a returning player, this is the video I've been looking for. The only thing I see missing from your explainer is professions. Been playing DF for about a month to familiarise myself, and I still can't get my head around the profession changes since WotLK.
@@Seth10n that would've been a great one to talk about, I'm sorry that wasn't included. I'm working on a features overview for The War Within, look forward to my professions section there.
Something I would like to see covered that has changed since I first played (in BC) is that now monsters seem to match your level wherever you go. This sort of upends the normal playstyle of leveling up for (innate) power and then going to back to slightly lower-level zones to easily gear up or "slum" when learning new classes. Now that monsters seem to match your level, gearing up seems to be the main power track and leveling without gearing up seems to make fighting more difficult. Or at least it seems. An expert analysis on this would be nice to hear. Oh, and maybe cover how this unusual scaling system works as I noticed I can fight a monster and it is at my level and another player can fight the same monster at the same time and the monster is at their level too! Both of us seem to do proportional damage according to our level. This breaks my mind from traditional level-based MMO content I'm used to.
I can't get into the engineering aspect of the scaling as that also cracks my mind, and we've actually been told on multiple occasions that it's the cause of numerous tuning issues, so I know it's not an easy thing to work with. That would've been something good to include for sure, but something interesting to note is that in your initial leveling journey in The War Within mobs are actually set at a specific level. However, once you go back through on Alts the scaling starts. It seems the scaling is to disincentive people out leveling content, and they prefer you to be on an even field with enemies at all times, thus making you more reliant on gear upgrades you get while leveling. That's just my two cents, but I don't know a ton about how it works honestly
i just got the game about a week ago.. very addicted. i’ve finished the dragon flight campaign. i would like to maybe dive a bit more into the story before i go into TWW. Since i’m new i have no idea how that works tho. If anyone has any suggestions or ways i can do that it would be appreciated
This was a very good video with a good overview of the current state of the game. I just purchased The War Within expansion thinking I would get back into the game, and I wished I had watched this first. I am bailing... the game has simply gotten too complicated with too many resources, upgrade paths, grades/levels, etc. I guess this appeals to people who want to play the game *all the time* and get bored without a ton of things to grind to keep them busy. For those of us that don't want to *live* World of Warcraft, the game just doesn't seem appealing to casual players anymore. The last expansion I seriously played was Shadowlands. I personally think Mythic and Mythic+ ruined the game.
@@kawfeebassie I'm gonna appeal to your will to play WoW here and say the casual lifestyle is possible. The War Within is adding Delves, which is a way to enjoy endgame progression like everyone else in short 10-15 minute segments, and you can easily walk away from them too. Combine that with new Story Mode (Solo) raids and dungeons scaling higher for Normal and Heroic queues, you can have fun here
Pretty handy guide. I left at the stwrt of shadowlands and the short blurb at the end helped give a very brief overview, though i completely forgot what renown worked like so that bit at the end of that segment went over my head haha. I will say i wish you had given just a short description on what story mode raiding is. When you were going over the new additions, i had no idea that was a thing, and from this video alone, i still dont really know anything about it besides its on a similar level to lfr.
Gear upgrade system is stupid since it monopolised gearing preventing most people from being able to get that gear without a guild as people won't invite people outside their group no matter how good they are.
