New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Penthea]

Playing with a friend of mine, returner from ARR content, I can already feel how demoralized he is trying to catch up in time.

I just lvled up an alt from 1 to 50 in two days this week. You can easily get to 70 in two weeks. ShB is still two months away. They have plenty of time.

They feel like they are just wasting time.

If they feel like playing through the story and learning the game as intended is a waste of time, then I don't think this game is for them.

I think there needs to be something in place, to alleviate this feeling. In WoW a new player has a boost, but can reach the relevant (expansion) content, and can go back and do older content at their own leisure.

Or they could...play the game from lvl 1? Also as others said New Game+ is coming in ShB, so that will sort that particular issue out.

The more expansions and story content, added just make this worse, and worse.

I know quite a few new players who loved that there was a huge amount of story for them to get through. They had a blast going through the content from 1 - 70. The issue isn't that there is too much content. The issue is players being too impatient.

Sure some quests need to be streamlined but to imply that boost are necessary is just condoning impatience.