There’s one thing which just struck me about the planned mechanism for the Hero classes, something us altoholics would love to have.
The Death Knight will enter the world at a high level, geared and beyond the massive grinding swamp of level 21-58 – and ideally even above the level 65-68 swamp (those three were another nightmare on the pallie for me).
I’m currently not really that keen on the Death Knight, and might not necessarily find the future other heroes much more appealing.
What appeals to me, however, is dragging the pallie to 80, completing, if needed, an epic quest…
… and unlocking the option to create any future char at level 60 or 70, geared up, and beyond the Azeroth morass. If they can do it for DK, there’s no reason you couldn’t do it for traditional chars.
I’ve been through the level 55-60 zones twice, thrice through level 50-55, four times through level 40-50 areas, five times through STV and Desolace, seven times through Wetlands / Ashenvale / Hillsbrad, and close to 30 times through the starter zones and the barrens / westfall / Loch Modan / Darkshore / Stonetalon.
I’ve seen it. I’ve done the vast majority of quests so often that because of this, I tend to skip most of the quest texts even on level 70 (which I had never seen so far) simply out of habit and a kind of insentitive boredom the game generated because of endless repetitions.
Grinding through just 10 or 20 levels (in the worst case) to have a different character reach endgame? I’d continue to pay money for a long time for that. And you know, all those small semi-casual guilds who have been stuck in Kara since March or so because they simply cannot field a second team as attrition and the promise of better progress given by guilds raiding 25-men content siphon their T4-geared tanks and healers away, setting them back again and again and again, if you gave them the means to recover lost roles by quickly available alts, I bet they would keep sending good money to Blizzard for a long time too.
Heck, I’ll probably create hero characters simply because of that, come to think of it.
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