It definitely felt very nice- but the problem could be that questing is just so slow. Rested XP upped or extra XP gains could be considered. I was surprised how nice the leveling felt. A lot of my friends played without major complaints of leveling pace.
It looks very retail coded right now.. I hope the team considers retexturing the Octo pet to look more like a Classic style pet. It is pretty jarring to see a retail model on a Classic+ server.
Agreed- this would be highly lore friendly. It'd be great new skin for undead. I argue this would even enhance the RP community, by a lot. Please consider this Octo team
I decided to make a formal suggestion here for the devs- as practically all of the players I see agree that the phases need to be longer. I see most say 1-2 months longer per phase, bare minimum, for a total of 3-4 months for each phase. (source thread; https://octowow.st/forum/viewtopic.php?t=472 ...
I'd advise the team to stretch out the roadmap a bit more too. If they want- they could add small custom content patches between the phases to maintain the hype. For example, Octo team can add patches updating existing content per Turtle's plans: