Classic+ keeping the leveling scene alive
One of the major flaws of modern WoW is the leveling world has big time dropoff once people hit max. Leveling alts shouldn’t be mandatory, but it should be encouraged. I think most of us vanilla enjoyers agree that leveling was the core of the game but has been completely taken over by endgame. I love endgame too, but both areas should thrive in an ideal world.
My solution to this is the Steamwheedle Cartel. An otherwise ‘useless’ faction in vanilla with the reputation meaning nothing. We can change that.
The various goblin cities and their rep bars should be combined into one reputation faction of the Steamwheedle Cartel. This faction will act as such. A moneymaker that offers jobs for profits.
First, I propose that there are enough quests, dungeon rep gains (new dungeons) and turn-ins that can get you exalted relatively easily similar to cenarion expedition in TBC. You can then buy a tabard and send to an alt to increase your experience gains by a % (controversial?) No heirloom items, this is the only exp boost in the game. Wearing this tabard will now have MOST quests reward a token (think badges). Not all quests because we know some are just talk to this guy. The tokens can be turned in at NPC’s in the goblin cities for sums of gold. More tokens should be rewarded for the difficulty of the quest, dungeon quests, and if it’s the last part of a chain. My philosophy is you should simply be able to farm gold by just leveling alts in the open world. The only real avenues in classic are gathering, alchemy, enchanting mats, some other niche profession stuff, orbs/dark runes. A big part of the community has a major problem with gdkp, selling boosts and dungeon items but that’s kind of a natural byproduct when there aren’t many other ways to make gold. This encourages less dungeon spam, less boosting, bots can’t really exploit questing for gold especially chain quests and ones that require groups. It makes the goblins more useful and will keep open world leveling much more relevant.
There’s much more you can do with Steamwheedle rep. I encourage you to comment and share your ideas. Definitely open for people to point out potential flaws in this. It’s probably not perfect but I think it would be a decent concept. This can also be used for some sort of GDKP comprise with raid boss kills rewarding gold from the goblins. Of course not every rewards needs to be gold with this faction but this should be done in a way so OP items aren’t being gatekept behind it so people ‘have’ to do it. Plus goblins are the mafia guys after all. Is this idea gas or trash?