I completely agree with Nain, a fast leveling (xprates > 1) kills the vanilla experience. First, fast leveling will not leave space for zone conflicts, like killing some guy in STV/AH/Hillsbrad and starting a fight in that zone, why? becasue you level so fast that chances of people of aprox same level, or even in the zone level (upper and lower bound) meeting decreases a lot. Fast leveling, makes people move out of leveling zones way too fast, no World PvP. Fast leveling makes doing dungeons useless, you level so fast that gear is useless.
People say you starve from different levels, thats not true, I've managed to level from 1 to 60, without ever grinding, just doing quests, why? because I'm not an ****t who only does yellow/red quests and moves to higher level zones as soon as I can, If you knew how to play, you'd at least 2 or 3 zones for your level bracket before moving to a higher level zone, why? so you don't freakin quest starve and be forced to grind your ass out.
Second, consistency, people in high level servers, get bored of their characters really fast, why? because its so easy to level another char, so why bother participating or commiting to a guild or a character.
You guys say, make it optional, yeah? ok i'll level x1 and every1 else is doing MC or W/E while i barely have enough people to do 5 man runs, or be forced to run with a higher level character(BOOOORING). Make it optional, I guarantee x1 fans will not play, they'll just wait for Rebirth to come back. On the other hand, give a x1 server, prove it can hold DDoS, and give it some time, show quality, show good scripting, players will come. You say that won't happend? Rebirth had 100-200 players for years, last year it started grwoing from 300 to 700 and even 800, then DDoS and Blizzard law suit. So x1 servers,need hype, need time. People are going away from ED, bc of the bugs, and rebirth is down, so options are valkyrie or nothing(vk is RU mainly) and is quite bugged too. So to bring all the players from ED, TRB and VK, you need time, and quality, and you'll get a really NICE community here.
I can see from the videos that a lot of effort was invested in this server, and in every dungeon, high exp will make everything invested in low level content(dungeons and quests) worthless, because people won't even bother doing those.
Twinks? no twinks here, way too easy to level, no low lvl bgs here. Even in TRB with 400-500 players you had constant lvl 10 19, 20 29, BGs, during a week and twinks. Nobody likes twinks, but helps economy, making twink items expensive, helping you get your freakin' mount or epic mount.
Want to help people? Publish leveling guides, and advertise it as don't quest starve, don't grind to death, just follow this steps to reach 60.
BGs? you need people for BGs, high exp doesn't imply you'll get a lot of people, in the other hand quality and x1, have shown (TRB, ED, VK) that population tends to grow by itself.
And if you really appreciate the Staff and its Work, don't demand or criticize their decisions in such a biased way, "people are lazy, people won't level on a x1 server", or assume they are wrong and that you are right just because their decision isn't in line with what you expect. You didn't see any post of people begging or demanding x1 xp, people like myself, who are searching for a new home(server), with x1 rates, are just expectant to see what the staff decides, and we won't QQ, we'll just continue to search and move on.(This is in response to "what are you thinking ...." title of the discusion).
Regards,