Captain Obvious moment: raise the level cap by 5 points instead of 10.
With the +10 levels we got in TBC and we should get in WOTLK, even the hardest raid of the previous endgame becomes hopelessly obsolete. But at level 75, if Blizzard keeps more or less sane itemization policies, T6 could, most likely, remain a decent gear set for the average gamer. Due to the added level, players outside of the top hardcore would have an easier time mastering Hijal and BT while still facing a non-trivial challenge.
Of course, this may not ring a bell with the class designers eager to add two new tiers to the talent trees. There’s no reason why they couldn’t let level 71-75 award 2 talent points instead of 1 though, no?
Related to this, I’m with the commenters to Wowinsider‘s latest Gamers on the Streets feature. Add 1 more profession slot, make engineering secondary.
Oh, and release tanking heroes paired with a healer if you don’t want 90% of the communication in the trade channel to be “LF1M Healer to Ramparts – no more DK please we are 4″.
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Simply not gonna happen. Among the general public people were ‘iify’ enough about TBC giving only 10 new levels to a player while at the same time costing 3 times as much as the vanilla WoW cost, at leas that’s what it was over here in Irlandais.
Looks to me like the 10 levels in WOTLK is a lot to do with justifying the cost. by that time if a new player wanted to buy WoW and level to the end, it would cost the price of 3 games, depending on the seller etc.
Anyway, A solution to the old content getting a kick in the teeth is easily found. eg the 5man instances, when a 5man party enters one of those old level 60 instances the server looks at their levels, sees that they are over level 60, and then just loads a harder version of the instance, even just adding 10 to the mobs levels would be plenty to keep it challenging.
Of course there is one more thing I would consider here, in old wow, back before i didn’t know it existed,there were plenty of max levels running around doing max level things like chilling in org or chastising some noob who just asked some outrageously stupid question, looks to me that the higher end population nowadays is a smaller percentage than what it used to be, and given the amount of new instances and things to spend your life raising, earning, finding or selling they don’t think that the now level 70′s, should be bothered with the level 60 content.
Blizzard is never going to pay much attention to old content when they release something new, They are moving on and expect all the players to follow suit.