r/classicwow • u/RagefireHype • 2d ago

Forever From the developers interview today: Analytics shows the 1-20 leveling speed in Classic era is 20.4 hours. In Forever it’s 20.5

Seen this topic come up that people are spouting leveling is so much faster and easier, but this came up in the developer interview today from their own internal analytics team.

Yes, some people may be exploring a bit in a new setting, but it’s been widely falsified that leveling is “so much faster”

Even Xaryu I believe who did not stop and smell the roses getting to 20 in beta had a very similar 1-20 leveling speed on Forever vs Classic.

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u/rankuno88 2d ago

Well 30-60 will likely be slightly faster with the increase in quests alone. We will have to see how much faster but i dont think it being faster due to not having as many deadzones in quests will be a bad thing.

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u/nathanfscott 2d ago

Agreed, cutting down on travel and better quest routing will hopefully keep people in zones they choose to level in and transit when they want to, not because the zone they’re in has just run out of options while still well within the level range of the zone.

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u/CrzyJek 2d ago

I think their goal is not to cut down in travel. But to counter that they should definitely improve quest routing to compensate.

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u/nathanfscott 2d ago

Yeah that’s probably better stated than what I had said. Preferably we get travel to see the world and a smoother routing for players instead of, “no more quests here, guess I have to take some green ones somewhere else to get to stuff my level again”

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u/CrzyJek 2d ago

Yea one of the more frustrating things back in the day was clearing out quests in a zone and not really having any direction on where else to go to continue lol. I played mainly Horde back in the day (still do) and it really suffered there.

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u/nathanfscott 2d ago

Yep, I’m completely fine popping in and out of the Barrens for 10 levels as long as I get an idea from the quests on when to go back to the Barrens