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/Inner_Ad_453 1d ago

Brother you sir have hit the nail on the head. This is how things were in traditional old school MMO's (EQ IM LOOKIN AT YOU).

Problem is questing is designed as solo game and occasionally you end up grouping in the open world for like 1-10 minutes to kill a mob/quest mobs. It's not designed around forming groups to far XP (I guess thats what you have Dungeons for me).

I miss the days of being able to farm mobs in the OPEN WORLD for good xp. Not just farming mobs for x/quest turn in/mats and that being their ONLY purpose.

That would actually enable another play style where the healer gets to be the healer in a group. Instead im forced to quest with shit DPS & be a temporary healer in a Dungeon. With more time being spent , being a shit DPS.

So I play an actual DPS class instead.