The Current World of Warcraft Is Great for Beginners - Raiditem

The classes have been streamlined, the combat balanced, the graphics updated time and again… but despite all that, it's always been difficult to get new people into WoW. The reason? Levelling a character for the first time in World of Warcraft is, and has always been, like pulling teeth.

It's fine for veterans. We have the heirloom items that boost experience, we know which areas have the best and fastest quests, and we know the optimal routes through each zone as well as which professions to level. For the new player, though, it's all a mystery, and most people understandably can't be bothered to read a dictionary-sized wiki just to play an MMO.

For a newbie, who is used to the quality of life improvements of modern gaming, getting into WoW can be a nightmare. However, that has changed recently with the introduction of level-scaling across the whole world. WoW is now more accessible than it's ever been.

This has a few important consequences: firstly, no more leaving an area before you finish its storyline. Most zones have an ongoing story threaded through them via questlines, and it used to be all too easy to end up hitting the effective levelling cap for the zone before you finished playing through the story. Secondly, you don't have to start a new character to play with your newbie friends. As long as you have a character that's in the same level bracket (e.g. 20-60), you can group, do quests, queue for dungeons, play in PvP battlegrounds.