10-21-2008, 10:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-21-2008, 10:36 AM by Bob the Beholder.)
Quote:Oct 20 News
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In a topic for discussion, the question of whether or not a lvl 70 should be able to create a lvl55 of any class comes up. There are several good sides to this arguement, coming down to Blizzard claiming that part of what makes Death Knights a Hero class is their ability to start at 55. Is there much class learning done at 1-55 anymore? Is someone who's come up from lvl 1 that much of a better player than someone who created their toon at 55? Interesting questions indeed.
Recent experience for me--I've agreed to level my friend's paladin as a birthday present for him. Starting at level 53, having never played a paladin (and what experience I have from fighting them/playing with them absolutely demolished by the changes in 3.0), I log on and I sit here going, "what is going on? Of course, it doesn't help that this is a character whose action bars are set up by a guy who clicks everything, being played by a guy who can't live without 35-40 keybindings. Stuff is everywhere, scattered around all nonsensically. And the talent reset/ability changes from 3.0 meaning what is there is shot full of holes.
'Course, going from that state to a working knowledge of your basic levelling grind took faaaar less time than going from level 1-55. But still, the learning is still there, to a small degree.
That said, if I could skip 1-55, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I have four 70s, and am predominantly focused on end-game PvP, so just doing the Azeroth grind againd and again and again is not appealing to me.