Can we have a 2x EXP event at launch day

[reddeffect]

Why does anyone even think this will happen...

[Badtank]

I really don't want to get into the whose fallacy is it anyway game but the slippery slope of people leaving because of jacked up rates is not likely to be higher then the amount of people that will shy away because of 1x. Not only that people that come after the first 1-2 months are going to have a fucking hell of a time, and god forbid trying to do dungeons outside of a guild. No private server in the world is going to every get a community large enough to realistically support a leveling group, outside of a leveling guild, big enough to support natural 1x rates outside of launch. People leveling alts are going to be primarily on a guild need basis and a lot less "for fun" that we see on retail.

I mean i'm really veering into general exp rates at this point and I've sorta left the weekend 2x 420 mountain dew double exp boost topic, but I really think its going to be regrettable in the future. Don't act like every single private server does not suffer from lack of players at end game and the 1x servers often the most. It's a niche community everything that can be done to keep/attract players is a good thing and I just don't see a problem with a variable leveling rate that can be toggled off and on. If you want a 1x blizzlike old timey fuck I love grinding gameplay oh boy level 50 forward funtime fucking have it but why the hell do we have to have that? For what "even ground"? It's a god damn time sink, that's all it is. It's not challenging, hard or skillful to level its just a time consuming process that has to be repeated ad nauseam for every toon you want to level.

Now I do understand the sentiment towards the idea that a 1x rates causes more world pvp and dynamic events( I.E. tauren mill/southshore pvp, STV ganking) but lets be honest, how often is that going to happen outside of the initial launch wave and even if it does, how the hell does a increased exp really stop that from happening? Most southshore fights are were almost always engineered anyway, its just to big guilds looking for a reason to pvp for shits and giggles. A 2x rate in general would not allow you to skip entire areas, it literally just makes the acheing really shitty parts of the leveling process not shitty.

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[Ryanp]

Why does anyone even think this will happen...

The fact that everyone gave lazy answers like "that's not blizzlike" or "that's just stupid" is evidence that no one does.

I was just giving an answer to the question because no one else seemed interested in giving it a proper answer...and I was bored.

[Viper]

Rates are x1.

[Letokteren]

These kinds of threads make me wonder:

Do all of us know what we are signing up for when we wish to play on this server? Or the crowd who says we look at vanilla from behind the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia is acutally right?

Either way: there are many servers with this option or with that feature. But there is no server (yet) for the "muh blizzlike", "vanilla was teh best" and the "muh immersun" people.

And there should be at least one imho.

[Garfunkel]

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Thanks.

I've been intensively playing at ED for the last two weeks. I've been murdered at STV and Hillsbrad and Ashenvale. I murdered a gnome in Stonetalon. I've run RFC, WC, BFD, SFK and RFK multiple times as an enhancement shammy, though I did have to be the healer for a few of them. I constantly (2-3 times a day) see server messages about Ahn'Qiraj war effort raids happening, so there definitely are raid guilds busy with the Scepter quest line and Onyxia's head is getting turned in at Orgrimmar quite often as well.

So I seriously doubt your claims that 1x rate servers suffers from a lack of population.

As to the OP, I'd like to see some facts beside pointless stating that "many" people would ignore Nostalrius due to constant 1x experience rates. Not to mention that there certainly are people who STILL do enjoy the vanilla 1-60 journey. It's not about being the quickest to get to 60, it's all about the journey to get there.

Personally, I enjoyed that journey in retail vanilla back in 2005/2006 - enough so that while I raided as a mage, I levelled up a priest and a shaman, so the few of you who claim that it was horrible and no-one enjoyed, get real and understand that people are different. You honestly cannot claim that 2x rates would bring in more people than it would turn off - because nobody knows. Your gut opinion is just as worthless as mine. All we know is that when a server starts deviating from the "Blizzlike" experience, no-one can tell where it ends. Buy your way to 60? 15x experience weekends? Get purples from liking Facebook posts? Slippery slope is a fallacious argument but not everyone considers these things with nothing but cold logic. I know I wouldn't want to play on a server that plays around with the settings like that. Perhaps I'm a tiny minority, perhaps I'm a large majority, who knows.

You claim that 2x EXP rate would have no significance except for shaving off few hours - if it's so meaningless, why do you want it in the first place? Especially as the 1-20 journey is the easiest and quickest part. I would understand if you advocated 2x rate for the the second weekend or the third, when people are getting to the 40-50 area.

In the end, if you have to grind mobs for XP because you can't find any quests, my advice is to stop for a second and think what you're doing. There absolutely are enough quests to get you to 60 without EVER having to grind mobs. Do the elite and dungeon quests. Do the quests that require you to travel all over the world. I've seen few players at ED complain that they cannot find quests and when I point them to a suitable zone, the reply is "I don't like that quest" or "oh there's only few quests there, I don't bother traveling that far for few" and other similar bullcrap. Enjoy the fucking game - we're all doing this for fun, right? If your goal is to get to 60 ASAP so that your guild can get server first on Raggy, all the power to you but honestly, shaving 10 hours off the leveling process is, in my opinion, utterly meaningless in the big picture, when you have to get 40-45 decent raiders geared anyway.

Rates are x1.

Well, that ends this debate, I guess.

[alucard001]

[Aquane]

Rates are x1.

thank you

[Niceloot]

Already the pandering starts. Make no exceptions. Absolutely blizzlike.

[Moxey]

i dont understand how stupid you have to be to suggest this in here.