WoW Classic's Season of Discovery devs announce plans to slash mount prices in half, ramp up XP gains to 100%, and create an eventual 20-player Molten Core
Season of Discovery phase 2 has been chugging along, bringing players to a level cap of 40—also leading to a harsher demand when it comes to Classic's old XP and gold grinds. In case you missed the boat entirely, SoD is a version of WoW Classic with a smaller team that's all about mixing things up: Smaller, phase-by-phase level caps, new abilities, low-level raids, taking rogues and healing mages, and so on.
In a recent developer update, the SoD team unveiled a few plans for the future, both immediate and distant. First up—XP Santa is here ahead of schedule. Discoverer's Delight is a catch-up mechanism for returning players, which lets them get to season-current content just that bit faster. Previously, this was a 50% boost that stopped at level 24—the past season's cap. Now it'll be a 100% boost that stops at level 39, just one level shy of the current phase's ceiling.
«When we first concepted Season of Discovery we knew we wanted alts to be a major fixture of the experience, and so we decided to add an XP buff, Discoverer’s Delight, into previous level bands at the beginning of each phase,» the update states. "… but if you went into phase 2 with several characters at 25 already, it can be a little daunting to level them right now."
Blizzard adds: «We had always intended to increase Discoverer’s Delight to a 100% buff from [levels] 1-39 when phase 3 launched, so this is merely moving this change forward from the start of next phase, to a midpoint of this current phase.»
In addition, level 40 mounts are half-price. In Classic these things would run you a pricey 100 gold—20 for the riding skill, 80 for the mount itself. These savings coincide with a buff to cash rewards from questing across the board, in an attempt to «make questing while levelling a bit more lucrative». Which makes sense—faster levelling means fewer quests, and fewer quests makes for a poorer character. Bites if you'd just spent a pretty penny for a pony, though.
Lastly, Molten Core's going to be
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