2.3 Patch Leveling Improvements
Sep. 26th, 2007 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryantIn 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.
Whee!
Edit: between levels 20 and 60.
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Date: 2007-09-26 10:20 pm (UTC)On the one hand, that's not fast per se. On the other hand, it's very quick compared to most MMORPGs. On the third hand, Blizzard hasn't yet solved the problem of what non-raiders should do when they do hit 70.
I get to be competitive on my server, but I also dedicate three nights a week to raiding, and I'm not nuts enough to think that's an insignificant commitment.
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Date: 2007-09-27 04:39 pm (UTC)Prolly the second hardest challenge in raiding, IMHO. There are a lot of people who are happy to do 4-6 nights a week and want to progress hard; setting up one of those groups is supremely doable.
Setting up a three night a week group that is serious about not wasting time on those three nights? Very very hard. I didn't succeed in my attempt to do that.
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Date: 2007-09-27 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-27 05:53 pm (UTC)And now I go off into my own la-la-land, which may or may not be interesting to anyone. :)
It's because of the difficulty of finding N-1 people with my 1, skill, 2, free nights as me, and 3, want to raid as much as me that I'm hoping in WotLK, Blizzard makes two tracks of tiered dungeons: N=25 and N=10.
My dream would be that all bosses drop badges, which gives raiders a baseline of gear. Best-of-slot are then specific boss drops. If you're obsessive about having best-of, then yes, you need to raid everywhere. But if you want a 90% solution, then you can just do 25s or just do 10s or just do 5s.
And yes, if you do a full 25 and a full 10 each week, and a heroic each night, you'll rack of badges stupidly fast, relative to someone who does 1 10 and 1 heroic. I'm okay with that, and I think it'd be okay for the game as well.
Oh, and you'd need tiers of badges, right. So if you have 17/17 of the first tier, then you're ready to try the next tier. You can start with less, and part of the point of boss drops being better is that you gain that extra margin all that faster.
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Date: 2007-09-27 08:43 pm (UTC)I want to raid with the 24 best players I can find. I probably wouldn't raid if I didn't think I was good enough to run with any guild on the server.
My progression goals are very high. I won't get upset if I don't reach them, but they're high.
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Date: 2007-09-27 08:50 pm (UTC)My point is that, if there are 24 people who are significantly better players than you, they won't recruit you. Sure, you'll want to play with them, but that won't actually change anything.
That said, it's certainly true that we don't have the same progression goals. I've never been inside Naxx and I've never seen what's past Skeram; I will probably never see the inside of Black Temple. That's all okay by me, although it'd be much more okay by me if there were someplace (my main character, a mage) could be making progress, which is why I'm doing the alt thing again.
To be honest, I keep forgetting that Black Temple exists. I'm not even sure what's inside it. Is that Illidan? That's the SMV dungeon?
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Date: 2007-09-27 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-27 09:03 pm (UTC)Yeah, I totally don't believe I wouldn't get pushed out the door due to low dps performance playing my mage.
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That sentence should be taken out and shot. But hopefully you see my point, despite the double negative. :)