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were now to level in dailies form to get back to campaigns @70?
mattsacre
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So Sharandar and dread ring and all the former L60 "campaign" style dailies are now L70 zones. The promised buff up to 70 does not now work (I've tried to test it, 2 stroke croak...no fun 
) So now if we want back into what we once had @ L60 we have to grind out to L70 to get back in to boon up to get to "next" campaign all over again.
So I guess my question is: Since the former campaigns are now a no-go for L60s until we can grind up and regear to L70 to get back in....were do we grind at now to get to L70? Is there no Campaign to run? Is there no daily hub to inhabit?
I need some advice here..is it just to club swinging mobs in mass number to xp from that? Were do we go for the xp needed (and possible gear drops/rewards to replace our former great now outdated purples). Were is the "new" spot we go to now that campaigns are verboten? Advice?
On a side note: Dev's, suggestion here, maybe it's to late now if you can't regress sharandar back, but wouldn't it have been a good idea to keep sharandar L60 campaign zone and dread ring a L63-L65ish? Making well of dragons the "new" endgame campaign? Sharandar is the "introduction" to campaign style play.
Since the nodes from campaigns are gone to L60s until L70, can you clue us into were the L60-70 content is now going to be..and is there some story line or new content planned to fill the new gap?
Thanx
) So now if we want back into what we once had @ L60 we have to grind out to L70 to get back in to boon up to get to "next" campaign all over again.So I guess my question is: Since the former campaigns are now a no-go for L60s until we can grind up and regear to L70 to get back in....were do we grind at now to get to L70? Is there no Campaign to run? Is there no daily hub to inhabit?
I need some advice here..is it just to club swinging mobs in mass number to xp from that? Were do we go for the xp needed (and possible gear drops/rewards to replace our former great now outdated purples). Were is the "new" spot we go to now that campaigns are verboten? Advice?
On a side note: Dev's, suggestion here, maybe it's to late now if you can't regress sharandar back, but wouldn't it have been a good idea to keep sharandar L60 campaign zone and dread ring a L63-L65ish? Making well of dragons the "new" endgame campaign? Sharandar is the "introduction" to campaign style play.
Since the nodes from campaigns are gone to L60s until L70, can you clue us into were the L60-70 content is now going to be..and is there some story line or new content planned to fill the new gap?
Thanx
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I was getting bored with the game having to do same thing every day.
Now I have to go back and regrind to up to 70 to just be able to maginally compete in icewind or tyranie. I think i will go find another game and play. this nerfing and having to go back wards is not way to improve a game.
However....
What I am seeing as the main issue is that this was only supposed to be a "raise in level cap" rather than "raise all lvl 60 content to lvl 70." My impression was that Share, Dread, IWD, and the Dragon area would remain lvl 60, with the intention of being used to level to 70. Not only will this significantly affect new players/new characters, but it had the potential of making the campaigns, particularly Share and Dread, worth something other than just to acquire the boons and/or to be used as a stepping stool to IWD. It's nearly as painful running the same 3 quests day after day as long as you are progressing to some end. So now, rather than using said areas and content to level TO 70, new players are going to have to GET to 70 really before they can do it. They had the perfect opportunity to allow the campaigns to be targeted at more players than just "those at max level." There already needs to be more interesting content in the game for more players other than those who are already at the top. Bumping up current lvl 60 areas to lvl 70 is NOT creating lvl 70 content.
The devs had a very good opportunity to use this as an opportunity to provide usable content for those striving for 70, instead of just the same thing once players reach 70.
Boring campaigns at 60 are still boring campaigns at 70. The only thing that Sharandar and Dread Ring had going for them was accessing IWD, which I think is the best campaign in the game. Now, with these changes, I have to wonder if the requirements to unlock IWD are now lvl 70, or is it still lvl 60 even though the pre-reqs are now 70?
Maybe I misunderstood, or maybe you did...who is to know? Like My OP from what I took from the dev notes shar,DR etc. were "suppost" to be L70 content, but when you entered, you as a L60 player were "suppost" to "buff" to L70, the game was "suppost" to sudobuff you to a L70 lite so to speak. That's what I was referring to about in that 2 stroke croak experiment I was talking about making, it failed miserably btw.
Also in the dev notes IWD gear/boon restrictions were "suppost" to be lifted i.e. no prerequisites as well as the gear restrictions for shar and DR. Being already L60 and having access previously to shar/DR/IWD I can't check the veracity of that. That previous needing L3 boons from shar/dr (per dev notes) for IWD was lifted, however it's moot isn't it? You can't survive shar/dr @ L60 from the L70 content, how you going to make it in IWD? lol.
Yeh, I really think they screwed the pooch on this one, they really had an opportunity to spread the campaign spectrum between shar to WoD making them L61-L70 in progression instead of making them all L70. All it done doing it the way they did is make L70 the new L60. The campaigns stacked up as "end content" at L60 none other then WoD actually being "end content". It would have refreshed old content into a new refurbished content natural progression, as it is, any new content added to WoD is going to be stacked up at L70 again just like it was before @ L60.
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At about 2500 xp per 'quest' (over and over again) I'm not sure 'designed for leveling' is the correct phrase.
Did you notice that for a level 60 in the old campaign areas, your old daily quests only give 1200ish XP each? Not gonna level up faster from those even if you can bull through them.
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Once you get the hang of it, leveling is super fast and easy in the new zones.
Take 4 quests with overlapping objectives plus the kill-all quest, finish them in 15 minutes, get the next 4.
As an example for 4 quests that work together in Drowned Shore first area: Herbal Malady (pick herbs outside and inside mines), Silver Strike (pick up silver in Silver Strike mine), Deepclaw (named "boss" at end of Silver Strike mine), Sea Trolling (kill 35 sea trolls, which are found in and outside the mine).
You can do similar packs of quests in all zones. The most efficient way is check each quest the three quest-givers are offering and figure out 4 that are in an overlapping area. Also keep an eye out for HE quests for the heroic encounter that is currently up, and prioritize quests that reward Elemental Aggregate or Unified Elements.
I didn't notice that, maybe because I wasn't grinding there for xp. I had some non-campaign content I could do at 4k plus, but that is almost done now (and is done for some characters). Those tend to take longer, so maybe the xp per hour is similar but since it was story driven and not all rinse and repeat it felt faster.
Oh well, we'll all get to 70 soon enough so I won't complain too much ...
It's not that bad. This game was always too fast. You could go from 0 to 60 in a few days. I think there are two seed quests given in PE that give 5000xp if you're looking for a quick easy boost. Some of the quests in Reclamation Rock are too grindy I'll give you that. Not doing the 40 galeb duhr kill quest again anytime soon.