“It’s no coincidence that murlocs are one of the earliest creatures you fight. “We also went through ‘What are our favorite monsters?’ The team as a whole did a brainstorm,” Martens explains. Players can fight Murlocs like in Elwynn Forest or Boars and Harpies like in Durotar. The team was also careful to pay homage to some of the things that are considered classic about the starting zones when selecting the various monsters players will encounter on Exile’s Reach. Adding a new zone, put some of our best elements of art and level design, all those things learned over the years that would get us that social experience, and show off a more modern look as well, rather than some of our oldest art.” “If you happened to start in Northshire Abbey, with the current human experience, it’s some of our older art and it doesn’t show what the engine can do or what we can do. Along the way, players will be taught the basics of WoW, and each class has a slightly different experience, including a quest that will teach their basic combat rotation. (The Horde experience is not live yet, but Martens said the storyline and overall arc will be very similar.) Players will aid injured soldiers, reassemble their team, and eventually take on the island’s ogres, who are trying to resurrect a dragon. The Exile’s Reach experience for Alliance players is live on the Shadowlands Alpha and tells the story of what happens to the player’s character following a shipwreck on an undiscovered island.
Those who want to play through Elwynn Forest for the 20th time will still be able to do so, but Blizzard hopes the new story of Exile’s Reach will entice longtime players to switch things up. It should be noted that while new players will automatically be sent to Exile’s Reach upon logging in for the first time, veterans will be able to choose between the island or their race’s original starting zone. We said, ‘alright, let’s make leveling more fun, let’s get more players together.'”
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We wanted to maintain some of that legacy, but with something that was more consistent and full of people and more modern. “We know people that met their significant other in the Undead starting area, or something like that. “Having the different racial, and in some cases, class starting zones, there’s a lot of comfort there,” Martens says. The team’s latest and best attempt at completely overhauling the leveling system and new player experience will come with the release of Shadowlands.
These are all issues that Blizzard is well aware of and the WoW devs have taken multiple stabs in the past at making the leveling process less confusing. This problem is even worse for veteran players using heirloom gear, which gives an additional XP boost. Regardless of which path they choose, most players see their level go up so fast (even before the recent buff) that they don’t have enough time to complete a leveling zone’s story before it’s time to move on. While the XP buff has been welcomed by many, it’s also served as a reminder of how broken the leveling experience in WoW has become for new players. From a timeline perspective, new characters start out on the 16-year-old game’s original continents of Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor, but complete quests that were designed for the game’s third expansion, Cataclysm. Upon reaching level 60, players then technically go back in time to play through either The Burning Crusade or Wrath of the Lich King, but then jump into the future once they get to Mists of Pandaria and beyond.
The XP boost was only supposed to last for one month but became so popular with players that it’s now been extended until the launch of the Shadowlands pre-patch later this year. In late March, the World of Warcraft team at Blizzard responded to everyone being stuck indoors during the COVID-19 quarantine by giving players a 100 percent bonus to the character leveling experience.
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