![]() ![]() In that game, you get to choose, on each play session, which of the five Acts of the game you want to play on. The second big advantage that Threads of Fate gives for leveling is in how closely it mirrors something like the Adventure Mode system from Diablo 3. Quests, World Quests, Dungeons - and the ability to change zones on the fly A wise person once said that variety is the spice of life, and I certainly concur. Repeating the same questing content over and over, with no variation, with no choice, tends to get tiring. So much that Cataclysm repeated that idea by giving us Hyjal and Vashj’ir as starting zones to choose from. ![]() Later on, it’s all about the burden of invariable repetition - and the joy of choice. But that is mostly applicable to launch and the following few days. There were other factors that weighed on that decision, such as removing bottlenecks and spreading out the playerbase for a better experience in general. It’s no coincidence at all that, for Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard decided to introduce the concept of having two different starting zones, in Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra. But for the start of your journey in the broken continent, you were always locked to the red peninsula. Once you got past those initial levels in HFP, your path opened up a bit: depending on your level, you could go to Zangarmarsh or to Terokkar, and after that, you had a choice between Nagrand and Blade’s Edge, and so on. I remembered all the many, many comments of how sick people were of questing in Hellfire Peninsula again in order to get through Burning Crusade content. And as I started thinking about why that was, a lot of changes made in previous World of Warcraft expansions suddenly made much more sense to me. On the third character, I simply couldn’t stand it anymore. By the second time, it had already begun to lose its luster. It was a lot of fun the first time I did it. And I quickly learned that the whole idea of linear storytelling every single time is not for me. This is likely to be the main reason why Threads of Fate was even introduced, in the first place: to allow you to change up the order of leveling zones on your future characters. Shadowlands saw a return to a linear storyline that progresses through every zone in a fixed order, diverging from how the previous two expansions, Legion and Battle for Azeroth, had done it. From reading what people have to say about it, I have a suspicion that a lot of players are writing off Threads without using it to its fullest potential. Once I had tried leveling a character to max level by using both methods, I found out that, for my particular preferences, Threads is vastly superior. And I ended up activating Threads on all of them - even on some that had already done the campaign all the way to level 55. Yet despite all the warnings, I always found myself picking Threads of Fate, on every new alt. Both options have compelling factors attached to them. We have already discussed what the main differences are between selecting Threads of Fate or just leveling through the standard story Campaign once again. ![]() The time has come for many of us to level our alts, as Shadowlands is entering the lull period where we have accomplished most of what 9.0 had to offer to our mains and are eagerly waiting for 9.1 - or we’re simply in the mood for a change of pace. ![]()
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