Experienced players can volunteer to be mentors in the channel by hitting up a guide recruiter in Stormwind (for Alliance) or Orgrimmar (for Horde). New players are added to the channel automatically to ask questions. (Image credit: Blizzard) Guide other playersĪ new mentoring system allows experienced players to guide new players in the game in a special chat channel. If you have a flying mount and skill, you're able to fly in Draenor and Legion zones, even if you haven't completed those achievements. The alt leveling buff, Winds of Wisdom, ends with the pre-patch, but the Impressive Influence reputation buff continues at least through the end of October. The new Exile’s Reach starting island for level 1-10 characters offers a delightful way for new players to get to know the game (and a new experience for returning players, who can choose between that and the traditional starting zones.) The new level cap is 60 in Shadowlands, and is capped to 50 in the pre-patch, meaning that for a short time, max-level characters in retail World of Warcraft are actually lower-level than their WoW Classic friends (where the level cap remains 60).īlizzard has said the 1-50 leveling experience should be about 30 percent faster than the 1-120 experience was previously. Earning the heritage armor of each race still requires leveling it from scratch (rather than race-changing or boosting the character.) Enjoy the new leveling squishīlizzard revamped the leveling experience for Shadowlands, and many of those changes are available now as part of pre-patch 9.0.1. For example, earning Void Elves and Lightforged Draenei requires completing the Argus campaign earning Vulpera requires completing all their storylines in their zone and unlocking Mag’har Orcs and Dark Iron Dwarves requires the completing of the Horde or Alliance war campaign, respectively. Reputation requirements to start an Allied Race character have been removed, so you can pick one of the ten allies you like and get leveling, but only after you’ve completed the related quest series for that race.

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