if boost to 90 was free I wonder how many people would choose not to use it? Heirlooms to speed through levelling is the next best thing.
if boost to 90 was free I wonder how many people would choose not to use it? Heirlooms to speed through levelling is the next best thing.
Healing/tanking in leveling instances is a joke and I would even say easier than dps.
Leveling dungeons used to be harder. As a result, almost no one did them. They leveled by alternative means (like questing).
If there is one thing that Blizzard cannot stand, it's content that people ignore. That is guaranteed to get them to change things up.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
It would be nice to have harder content queues available for those who want them.
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"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
wow is not about lvl 1 to 100. Its about lvl 100.
Leveling is a small part of it, which will be gone completly soon.
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Do challenge modes?
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Just reread what you just wrote and ask yourself if that is actually the way a game is meant to be played.....
OP , I agree with you. I actually don't do dungeons because they bore me to death...
Dungeons are seen as free XP right now which is wrong if you ask me and it's ruining people's fun.
And please tell me that stomping those dungeons isn't your idea of fun
Yeah, 'cause Wildstar's doing so fantastic right now. Really, that game is basically an object lesson in why hard MMOs won't work in today's market, not when there are so many free-play MMOs out there willing to offer you everything on a silver platter for, say, $6 a pop. EVE already has the hardcore niche pretty much cornered and it was never meant to be WoW's niche.
Well, last time they tried it they out and said that the hard dungeons were a mistake when there were no easy dungeon alternatives. It was specifically namechecked as a bad design choice in the Cataclysm post-mortems and interviews around the following Blizzcon by the same guys who spent all of Cataclysm defending them tooth and nail.There are different reasons for why the subscriber numbers fall and rise. Do you think the game would have no subscribers if they make dungeons harder again?
Point being, a game with a harder leveling curve might be good for you, but we have several MMOs that tried to go for WoW's hardcore audience and banked on people being down for an EverQuest-style leveling experience... and they all bombed. Wildstar lost 90% of its playerbase within months after launch and just got done having a shitload of devs fired.
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They should just remove leveling for people who have allready done it 3 times. its just a waste of time if its that easy as it is now
Points 2 and 3 actually raise a pretty interesting question, which (if I could be bothered) would probably be worth it's own thread.
Instead of making the current, acceptable difficulty level of dungeons any harder - why not add another one?
Like challenge modes? No exactly the same as challenge modes. Set a level cap for each run (ie. Wailing Caverns max level 22) and a gear cap (max ilvl 60 or whatever) and then give 3 or 4x the experience upon completion.
Don't have a group finder, same as CMs people can use the premade group finder. Record the times, have medals, go nuts.
"But that would take so much extra work" - but would it? I mean, does it really take that much time to dial it up a bit? I know balance is an obvious issue but these things aren't giving raid epics or cm sets or anything - if they are a little over/under tuned then so what? Go do a regular instance for a couple levels and try the next one at the appropriate level plateau.
Honestly would make levelling so much more attractive, would pull all the elitist heirloom min/maxers out of the dungeon finder and would provide extra incentives for going back and exploring old zones/learning new tactics.
I mean, I'm not the kind of person who generally comes up with fantasy concepts but I don't really see what this is hurting - and it adds plenty.
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Most of the game in terms of environmental content, quests, bosses, etc, happens prior to max level. And the older the game gets, the greater the gap widens.
You'll get over it.
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Plenty of people did dungeons while leveling, because prior to heirloom absurdity, most of the best items for a given level range were in dungeons. What probably didn't happen was chain running dungeons to level, which I'm sure (at the time at least) was working completely as intended.
It's probably the case that this has changed more because there is more competition and thus more drive to give people exactly what they really want (i.e.: instant gratification), but...
EverQuest anyone? This thread made me think of Karnor's Castle or Sebilis.. actually having to be careful to make it down to the 'camp' spots and then easily trained and killed by others. Having experienced both that and the ease of WoW dungeons I can't help but be nostalgic for the old flair. Maybe I, too, would end up just going with the easiest and most instantly-gratifying (WoW) if given a choice, but damn if I could go back in time and be in one of those groups again...
Isn't there a happy medium?
Instance scaling tech is already in the game. It was leaked into PTR for a short time during MoP. It's something that has been on the "we'd like to do this" list for a long time and supposedly is missing the mechanic to provide incentive for it, ie. appropriate loot.
Besides appropriate loot big problem is finding enough people through LFD who would be interested in making leveling slower for them. Queue times could be easily several hours, maybe even days for dps.
Unequip some of your gear. You just made the dungeon harder. Grats.