I recommend making the vanilla content XP rate whatever the majority of the population wants (poll), but please make the TBC content 1x rate. Obviously a lot of us want that nostalgic feeling, and I think having the TBC area a 1x rate would be beneficial and would also have people doing quests/dungeons together more frequently. I'm sure this is a doable task.
Is funny to see how the ppl is in QQ mode for legendary in shop when the ptr hasn't been released yet, the official release can be next month like december, the tbc got 4 season and the legendary will be available in the last season, so 3-4 months per season u will see the first legendary MAYBE in 2019.
Hello, in my opinion, if this is supposed to be blizzlike, it would be wise to keep xp rate as it was on retail as well.
One of the good reasons for it is that people will levelup faster and won't bother, ignore, skip lower level dungeons which is a big part of "blizzlike", making low level gear unimportant for leveling progress/not impactful as it should be.
Increasing xp rates would also hurt the overall population balance in some zones.
I've been playing for a bit in a tBC realm 2x. Although I'm only level 18 at the moment, I've found that I still feel my character not enough geared for an optimal leveling experience. I can't do a damn dungeon without getting carried the first time. And that was in a 2x server. It's this feeling of the game not made for the velocity you level up. You should fix this, either from one side or the other of the balance.
Why not just add in a option to change your character's leveling rate between x1-x5 into the character settings on the website? Ive seen people do it this way aswell as giving players the option to use a command ingame to change the rates aswell, .xp 1 would be a example. This is a far easyier solution than adding another realm that will be x1.