Level Faster than Ever to 70 in The War Within - Massive Reduction in XP Requirements

Posted 2024/04/17 at 8:25 PM by Anshlun

DragonflightExperience Changes ChartAnalysis

~20% reduction from level 20 to 50

~20 to 40% reduction from level 50 to 60

~75% to 80% reduction from level 60 to 70

Experience Changes Table

Level

DF XP Requirement

TWW XP Requirement

Difference

590

595

0.85%

1065

1085

1.88%

1675

1715

2.39%

2420

2485

2.69%

3305

3405

3.03%

4325

4460

3.12%

5485

5660

3.19%

6775

7005

3.39%

8205

8490

3.47%

9765

8135

-16.69%

11030

9195

-16.64%

12360

10315

-16.55%

13755

11490

-16.47%

15220

12720

-16.43%

16750

14010

-16.36%

18345

15355

-16.30%

20005

16755

-16.25%

21730

18215

-16.18%

23525

19730

-16.13%

25385

21305

-16.07%

27310

22930

-16.04%

29305

24620

-15.99%

31365

26360

-15.96%

33490

28160

-15.92%

35680

30015

-15.88%

37935

31925

-15.84%

40260

33895

-15.81%

42650

35920

-15.78%

45105

38000

-15.75%

45590

38355

-15.87%

46005

38655

-15.98%

46360

38895

-16.10%

46655

39080

-16.24%

46880

39210

-16.36%

47045

39280

-16.51%

47145

39295

-16.65%

47185

39255

-16.81%

47160

39155

-16.97%

47070

39000

-17.14%

46915

38785

-17.33%

46700

38520

-17.52%

46420

38195

-17.72%

46075

37810

-17.94%

45670

37370

-18.17%

45200

36875

-18.42%

44670

36325

-18.68%

44070

35715

-18.96%

43410

35050

-19.26%

42690

34330

-19.58%

47565

36235

-23.82%

52600

38195

-27.39%

57785

40195

-30.44%

63135

42250

-33.08%

68635

44350

-35.38%

74295

46495

-37.42%

80110

48690

-39.22%

86085

50935

-40.83%

92215

53225

-42.28%

194815

55560

-71.48%

214540

57945

-72.99%

234805

60380

-74.29%

255610

62860

-75.41%

276945

65390

-76.39%

298820

67965

-77.26%

321235

70590

-78.03%

344185

73260

-78.71%

367675

75980

-79.34%

391700

78750

-79.90%

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Comments

Comment by KrakenLatte

PRAISE THE TITANS

Comment by paluchrob

Dang I wont even need to stay up all night anymore D:
It seems like sarcasm but I enjoyed staying up all night trying to get to max lvl with a friend.

Comment by maurin

Pre-patch will be wild, let's fill that warband.

Comment by Narhwals

This is without the experience bonus through the warband buff I assume. So if you have a lot of lvl 80 guys you might as well hit max level after your first dungeon

Comment by Clinoclase

Pretty inevitable that this creates issues with drastic undergearing as you gain levels too fast to earn quest rewards or drops

Comment by redfinale

Pretty inevitable that this creates issues with drastic undergearing as you gain levels too fast to earn quest rewards or drops

You....you dont use heirloom gear?

Comment by Wandrd

I think some of yall are misunderstanding the post. This experience Decrease only applies up until lvl 70 with max level increasing up to lvl 80. So no, you will not immediately hit max level. Leveling time will likely be the same as Dragonflight going from 60-70.

Comment by Neutralagent

Neutral to 70 a lot faster if the node XP stays the same!

Comment by Kerathras

When is this happening? In the lead up to the expansion with the pre-patch or only after launch?

Comment by Kerathras

Pretty inevitable that this creates issues with drastic undergearing as you gain levels too fast to earn quest rewards or drops

You....you dont use heirloom gear?

You…you do realize there aren’t heirloom pieces for every gear slot, right?

Comment by Ditju

PLUS an extra 5% exp for every max-level character you have, capping at 25%.

Comment by Hexatomon

If Blizz could also implement smooth item level scaling for heirlooms across the even ten-numbered level gaps/breakpoints (IE, 30, 40, 50 etc), that would be appreciated. It doesn't really matter early on, just having gear with stats on 'em in most slots is a huge kick in the pants in the initial game, but later on it becomes more pronounced, and of course the most so at the level 60-61 step.

Heirlooms as a whole run out of a lot of steam in the last ten levels of DF, by the time you have gained a few levels it starts being significantly better to equip quest reward gear for a level or so instead of heirlooms, to say nothing of crafted gear. This may not be a problem as such, but it makes gameplay fiddlier, heirlooms are convenient because you don't need to faff with them while leveling, you can just focus on getting on with business. It would be better if looms could retain that role all the way up to max level, especially considering the very high cost required to level them up (for all four armor types and even more weapon types.)

Comment by immoralsoul

Pretty inevitable that this creates issues with drastic undergearing as you gain levels too fast to earn quest rewards or drops

I mean... I just dungeon to level and never have an issue

Comment by Lautner

Oh cool, so like all the expansions from before when they become old content.

Comment by Salv

They do this every xpack!

Comment by SpecBop

Pretty inevitable that this creates issues with drastic undergearing as you gain levels too fast to earn quest rewards or drops

You....you dont use heirloom gear?

You…you do realize there aren’t heirloom pieces for every gear slot, right?

You do realize that there is, right? well almost lol

Comment by Dekardcaiin

Cool

Comment by SneezingPixels

Dang I wont even need to stay up all night anymore D:
It seems like sarcasm but I enjoyed staying up all night trying to get to max lvl with a friend.

You still can. TWW levels are 70-80. This is just reducing the XP required to get to the new starting level for the expansion.

Comment by grayshirt

~75% to 80% reduction from level 60 to 70

That is massive. I know there are always reductions when a new expansion releases but has it always been this huge in the past?
The time is takes to go from 60>62.5 today is what the whole DF leveling experience will be like after the 75% nerf? With a Dreamsurge buff that is going to be a ridiculously short experience.

Comment by Savario15

Honestly, at point are we just given a free option to select if we want to start with a max level character or not?

With they always making it quicker to get to max level, the time you play from level 1 to current expansion goes so quick. Even for the most casual or newest player, leveling is so fast that they don't learn anything about their class, spec, or role. They hit the current expansion as clueless as if they had just bought the character at the expansion's starting level, and they're basically naked since they level too fast to gain appropriate rewards.

It really gets to a point where, eventually, leveling will just be a useless time sink for experienced players, and a pointless barrier to entry for new players.

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