Leveling

If you're a new Heroes of the Storm player -- playing for the first time for the Malthael's Bargain event, perhaps -- some mechanics might seem strange or unintuitive at first.

Technically speaking, we've done two expansions that weren't on Azeroth.

Looking at Heroes of the Storm and its 2.0 redesign gets me thinking about other games.

I know we're not even half done with Legion yet, but one of the things that keeps popping up in my head every time I see a Hunter with Hati or use Strom'kar's Warbreaker ability is this notion of just how much time and investment we put into these Artifacts.

I'm not talking about "Hey, it's a new expansion, level through these new zones and see new quests/do new things" leveling -- I honestly think that's some of Blizzard's strongest game design and has been since Mists of Pandaria.

It's probably not a surprise that I generally read the quest text.

I see many players racing to level 110 and I know there are valid reasons for it.

I know there are plenty of players out there who have already hit level 110.

It's been almost a week since Legion went live and a lot of us have been playing.

Okay, so I'm not super fast at leveling.