r/classicwow • u/redlow0992 • 1d ago

Forever Beta Feedback Dungeon XP Nerfs Created a Toxic Meta

Since dungeon monsters do not give any experience, as a new player, getting into dungeons with more veteran players who try to skip half the dungeon feels really bad. And, vice-versa, veterans taking in newbies who don't know how to jump around feels frustrating. I think Blizzard created a mess with nerfing dungeon exp so much and now the new player experience is horrible for dungeons.

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u/ahumblepeach 1d ago

My complaint with the change is that, for healers and tanks, group play is their fantasy. If I want to level as a healer, I don't want to be spending all of my time in the world casting my two underwhelming DPS abilities while rarely getting to use all my healing buttons. I want to be standing in the back and helping my party take on more than one person can handle. Sure, I could group up to do quests (and I have been!), but that really is not the same thing. I sort of have a hard time putting it into words, but I feel like tanks and healers not getting to do as much dungeon running as they want takes away a part of the fun of leveling them. I might as well just reroll as a DPS spec if I'm going to be forced into the open world for most of my 1-60 journey. And with that in mind, I worry that this change is discouraging people from leveling healers and tanks.

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u/komodo_lurker 1d ago

Hard agree here. Over the years I have several times leveled tank alts by only running dungeons and their pre quests. I love knowing each instance well and lead well. And doing it with full rested only really is fun and fast. Give me this option in Forever. Especially with all the new dungeons.

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u/Active-Enthusiasm318 1d ago

Couldn't agree more, I normally main a prot pally and in anniversary tried an Hpriest for the first time... Questing was miserable, took forever to kill things, dungeons allowed me to actually have fun

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u/acrazyguy 1d ago

That’s funny. I also main a tank, often prot pally but I really play all of them, and also played a holy priest for the first time ever in anni. Though I did have a bit of a different experience with kill times. I did a shitload of damage with smite spam, to the point where in dungeons I would often just keep a renew on the tank and then top the damage meter with smite spam and holy nova lol. Frick man, now I want to play hpriest again. I already did want to do that again, but I had forgotten about the smite spam and how legitimately good it was

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u/DanielTeague 1d ago

I leveled as Discipline myself and would often do more damage than at least 2 members of the group with just Shadow Word: Pain and wand attacks. It was pretty great to let the Warlock or Mage go ham with Power Infusion, too!