2.3 Patch Leveling Improvements

[bryant]

In the next WoW patch, the amount of experience required for each level will go down, and the amount of experience you'll get per quest will go up.

Whee!

Edit: between levels 20 and 60.

Comments

[kaitiana.livejournal.com]

Awww, crap. The tedious level grind is part of why I stopped playing WoW, and ended up toying with CoH again. The huge timesink required in the upper levels of WoW. CoH is starting to bore me again, so that may very well tempt me back into the evil goodness that is WoW. Crap.

[bryant]

Hee. CoH lost me to WoW when levels 40-50 were suddenly far more painful to solo than levels 1-40.

[rfrancis]

Really? I find levels 35-40 to be the pits of CoH, and indeed, we recently bailed it again when, lo and behold, our primary hero and villain characters were all around level 37-38. But yes. It's a problem. (On the other hand, getting back $30/month is less of a problem.)

[kaitiana.livejournal.com]

Funny. I just hit 36 with my highest CoH char and that's when my attention suddenly waned. No wonder!!!

[bryant]

Well, this was a couple of years ago. When I hit 40 suddenly there was much more grouping for the main lines of quests, and I'm kind of a story guy so that turned me off.

[rfrancis]

Yeah, the portal missions are kind of a neat storyline but you've got to group bigtime since they're just sick with archvillains. Ah well. I can't say I didn't get my kicks out of CoH, and who knows, we may occasionally fire it up for a month once in a while. I mean, I keep thinking about going back to do some Diablo II. :)

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Is your icon from...Underground or Underworld or...argh, I can't remember now. But I loved that game. Never played it, but the book itself was really well done.

[rfrancis]

Sadly, no. :) It's much worse:

http://www.ready.gov/america/_downloads/biological.pdf

That's right. It's from the Department of Homeland Security!

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Ah. The book I was thinking of does a very good job emulating that "government warning graphic" style.