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Leveling way to fast unless it gets slower at higher levels
keirkin
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Well looks like leveling is going to be WAY to fast for me unless it slows way down at higher levels. I have been watching a live stream and the person playing it has made it from 11 to 13 in 45 minutes. 13 to 14 in 20 minutes. 14 to 15 in 15 minutes. I really hope leveling slows way down at higher levels or exp gain is really bumped up because it is the beta or something.
There was 4 or deaths between lvl 13 and 15.
There was 4 or deaths between lvl 13 and 15.
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They can like, hack the game and stuff. They're OP, they should be nerfed PLOX!
Different live stream. I have watched them get each level. This person is just playing the game. They are about to make level 16 now will be about 15-20 minutes since they made 15th will be my guess. Quest turn in xp gives over half a level.
Was 16 minutes.
Hope so. Or for me this will be a real short trip
MMO's should be about the journey .....
Showing the media an MMORPG has always been tricky. Unlike a game like, say, God of War, where one can get a sense of the game within an hour or two and make an informed opinion about it as a whole, or even beat the whole thing in one marathon session, MMORPGs usually take days of gameplay to see even a fraction of the content, and often months (it used to be years!) to experience most of it, particularly the "endgame." The media typically cannot spend months reviewing or previewing a game, so anything they write about is always going to be with relatively little exposure. Thus, it makes sense to let them blaze through as much content as possible to at least give them a taste of things like PvP, crafting, etc. You would hate to have them write an article about a game with 60 levels when they only managed to get through 10 of them in 10 hours of play.
All that being said, I am not a fan of slow advancement for the sake of padding out content and making the game feel longer - I want to be engaged and to keep things fresh. Looking back, as much as I loved EverQuest, it took me over a year to get to 50, and a lot of that was spent on my butt, resting between fights. It was a fun year, but I am not sure it was necessary. At the very least, I would not want to do it again. Sitting around in Oasis pulling Desert Madmen and Crocodiles while avoiding Sand Giants was fun, but mostly due to the company. Meditating for a few minutes every other fight was not in and of itself very stimulating.
Of course, advancing too quickly is a problem, too. I like to feel like I achieved something and had time to get a feel for my character and how to play it properly. If I am rushed through content only to each "the end" without ever feeling like I did anything, especially when "the end" has nothing interesting to do, I lose interest and quit.
then again ive seen some games where hardcores max out in just a few days >:)
im thinking something similar as well being ive seen it over and over and even i tend to max level within a month or 2, i do have friends and seen others level in games like wow, swtor ,etc in just a few days...but they generally have a friend help them or what ever as they play the same toon 24/7, personally i think that takes the fun out of a game.
Right now we are looking at about 3.5 hours to 20 if the lower levels go like the ones I saw. Take in to account that this is just normal play picking up quests and doing them, not someone power leveling another character. Unless the curve takes a drastic change from what I have seen we are looking at about 40 hours to max level. If this is the case it is about 5 times quicker than I would like to see. This is normal play as well not someone power leveling you. That is so amazingly sad to me. 1.3 hours a day and you are max level in a month. Very very sad. That is about 4 to 5 times faster than Vanilla WoW was to max level at release without power leveling or exploiting.
I really hope I am wrong about the xp curve at higher levels, if not I will be very disappointed.
But I guess I will find out in 36 hours or so
It might be, one of the bonus items in the founders pack is a 10K XP boost, if thats anymore than a couple quests worth I can see it being problematic.
Neverwinter Official Wiki - http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/
They got exactly to Level 5 and got all of their first skillsets after the tutorial. So XP progression has to be normal. But as someone pointed out: At 60 Levels, the first 30 will be very fast. Then the curve starts to flatten.
Seriously, though, I'd think they don't want leveling to take too long because they want people to buy more character slots and other associated cash shop purchases that come with rolling new characters.
Assume u reach lvl 60 in 1-2 months, what u will do ?? End game seems it wont be a big thing in neverwinter which may lead people to create new character but... theres only 5 classes available and from what i see each class wont have much costumization so they will likely looks the same, that way u will probably just build 1 of each class.
The only thing i see holding the repeatability of neverwinter is foundry
That said 6 hours to level 16 sounds about right to me, and maybe 8-10 hours to 20. It after that that things should slow down. Remember your average person can maybe only play 4 or 5 hours a night, rather than looking at poeple who can play all day, which are the minority think about the average and how long in days that feels. 6 hours would likely be going into the next days play.
It does and it was. Remember they have to see parts of the game in one day unlike others who get a whole weekend...or the entire rest of the game cycle.
It's been stated by the devs they make exp gain high during press events and play tests to ensure that everyone can play all the content fairly fast...