Faster respawns in low-level zones for launch

Blizzard adjusted respawn rates for many areas across the world ahead of launch. The goal, Blizzard says, is to support the large number of players expected at launch without hard bottlenecks on spawns. Some contention for spawns is still expected and intended; the point isn’t to remove it entirely.

The rates are faster in lower-level zones, fastest in the starting zones, and slow down zone by zone as players level and spread out. When the first rush of new characters has passed, Blizzard plans to bring the lower-level zones back to more typical rates.

Blizzard also adjusted experience on various quests, changed some quests’ prerequisites and level settings to improve the flow between them, and added missing point-of-interest markers to various quests.

Why it matters: expect faster respawns in starting zones at launch, with Blizzard planning to dial them back down once the initial rush passes.