I'm going to try my best to level in a relaxed fashion. This way I can enjoy everything the game has to offer. However I usually get competitive / don't want to be left out, so if other people I know start cruising by my level I might have to catch up in whatever way possible.
I am gonna relax, why rush? :)
Leveling is like sex: the ending is the best part but you'll want to take a long time to get there.
Yeah, it's just as silly as asking "casual or min/max?"
You know that most players fall somewhere in between, nothing's black or white etc.
In my experience, casual players don't enjoy this game any more or less than any other category of players, they just say to themselves that they are taking it slow to enjoy it better because they are envious of the other category of players and can't commit as much as them.
To answer most of the casuals here: you don't want to fall behind the server in terms of leveling. People aren't going to rush Scholomance and BRD 24/7 forever. Once the large bulk of players gets to 60, they spam those dungeons for a few weeks and then they're done, no reason to go back there and waste anotger 2-3 hours - and you won't see another bulk of players as large as the one from the game launch hitting 60 and spamming dungeons all the time.
Same thing with raiding - you think once people are done with 3 tiers of raiding they're going to prefer a pre-raid BiS to a guy that's been raiding for a few months? Unlikely.
Same thing with low level dungeons, elite quests etc.
I am going to take it slow. Experiencing everything all over again and leveling professions at the same time.
I will only play and level one class and since level 60 is the end and we know all the content, I am going to take my time doing it all.
I don't need or want to do everything in one month.
Slow and steady enjoys the race! :-)
Aim to tank as many dungeons I can during leveling. Focus on the community!
Also, ain’t a student no more. Got them obligations now..
In vanilla I did things relaxed and loved it. When Burning Crusade came out, I was one of the first ten people on my server to hit 70. That was fun too. But my best leveling memories from Vanilla were all the complexities of getting 5 man groups together. I see no point in skipping the best parts, since my other favorite parts were the Honor Grind, and world pvp, which I won't be able to do well in until I have my pvp gear (warlocks scale too well with gear, and don't start off very good).
I am a relaxed player myself but this experience will be even more relaxed and different for me. I can only play a couple hours a day to keep my playing time in the off peak hours. Satellite internet sucks but at least I can play the game so I'm happy about that. It's going to be fun again and I can't wait for my daily short fix.
I'll be trying to maintain a balanced experience, doing profs and dungeons with it questlines as I level.
Going Orc Warlock to help groups with summoning.
Yeah, it's just as silly as asking "casual or min/max?"
You know that most players fall somewhere in between, nothing's black or white etc.
In my experience, casual players don't enjoy this game any more or less than any other category of players, they just say to themselves that they are taking it slow to enjoy it better because they are envious of the other category of players and can't commit as much as them.
To answer most of the casuals here: you don't want to fall behind the server in terms of leveling. People aren't going to rush Scholomance and BRD 24/7 forever. Once the large bulk of players gets to 60, they spam those dungeons for a few weeks and then they're done, no reason to go back there and waste anotger 2-3 hours - and you won't see another bulk of players as large as the one from the game launch hitting 60 and spamming dungeons all the time.
Same thing with raiding - you think once people are done with 3 tiers of raiding they're going to prefer a pre-raid BiS to a guy that's been raiding for a few months? Unlikely.
Same thing with low level dungeons, elite quests etc.
Lul true on somewhat level about dungeons but there is always gonna be somebody runnin or u can get a group up always. In 1 min? Maybe not but u are not in a hurry so why care, do it next day etc. There is always gonna pop up some fresh guilds who do the content u want to do or can. Made me lul
Kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place in regards to this. I want to level at my own speed as fast as possible but my friend really wants to level with me too :3 still have time to decide on that tho..
I don't want to rush the experience of leveling, I've waited 14 years to experience a fresh official vanilla WoW server, I'm going to savour it. Dungeons, world PvP, helping friends and guildies. I get the appeal of speedrunning, but not as a first character on fresh blizzard server and not to get to end game content ASAP, leveling is a fun social activity and I can't wait!
Yeah, there was so much more to the game than just being "first" at whatever objective. I think that's where those obessessing over 'world firsts' or 'realm firsts' lose sight of things. Sure, if that's their thing they can go right ahead, but to me... being 'first' in Classic means little to nothing when this has pretty much all been done by those who've came before in Vanilla.
Speeding through with the odd dungeon with friends. I've done the content to death for years on private. I just want to get to the portion of the game that I enjoy, which is endgame and high level PvP. I personally think the leveling process is overrated. Didnt like leveling the first time I did it. Have done it many many many times since. The only thing that salvages leveling for me is taking the odd break to do a dungeon with friends or ganking others as I level.
I've played private servers enough times to know where everything is by now, this time around my play time will be restricted, so because I have little choice, I have to speed level.
I have seen players speed-level hardcore mode... Miles ahead of everyone else and hardly leaving their toon logged off. Not something I could do.
I can't take time off work to play.
I find if I speed level for too long my mind gives up and I'll drift doing other things like professions, but there's nothing wrong with doing that because it's helpful later on, and I never run a dungeon if I have no quests for it or don't need gear.
Quite relaxed I'd say, I enjoy doing professions and such while leveling. If you get gold for Qs at level 60 then I'm probably going to take my time and try do all the Qs in the zones I start aswell.