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jimmyhar
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Problem: XP in new areas is too low.
Solution: LOWER the XP in the older areas.
That's what's coming in today's patch, according to the blog and patch notes.
As "compensation" we'll get one week of double XP.
Just a teeny glimpse into the insane decisions being taken by someone, somewhere.
Solution: LOWER the XP in the older areas.
That's what's coming in today's patch, according to the blog and patch notes.
As "compensation" we'll get one week of double XP.
Just a teeny glimpse into the insane decisions being taken by someone, somewhere.
....has left the building, and the game, and gone to play Guild Wars 2.
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Which means daily ToD quests(kill cultists, ghost stories, local dailies for dragon and whatever) will give no longer 5k exp but 3k as all the other ones. The only unchanged ones are the progress ones, which are one time deals to unlock new "help" repeatable tasks for cloaks.
it is not too low, with gwf and some invoking i did only shore and spinward, on pala i did shore, spinward and 1/3 of fiery, though i did have azures in utility slots
ppl hit lvl 60 before finishing whispering cavern, and that was before invoking added a ton of exp in the mix, my alts are 63.5 just from invoking, and i missed a few days cause of a bug
those are the ppl who are whining on forums while ppl who like the mod plays the game instead of voting in stupid polls :P
they added a lot of exp with new invoking system
4 new dds , based around each element, then a raid to defeat the cult. Then lets not rehash another cult for awhile actually. Im starting to feel bad for these blokes =P
I have NO issue with them taking thier time to do that. But it would be nice if they communicated with us a little more.
In terms of exp, blah to that.. it was a nice alternative path to level up with and avoid the first two zones and just do the third. I understand they are giving us double exp, but I think a better alternative, wouldve been to up the OTHER quests to 4-5k each.
The whole concept of some of these lvl 70 quests giving 1.7k exp is ... well not good.
I neither hate or love this mod, its not a mod to me, there is zero end game added here.
Forum users though, is representative of the playerbase, if you also consider the loss of income and downward player population as factors, its clear since mod 3, some mistakes have been made.
I do agree with you in terms of content, they started it off very well, then, it crashed and burned, why didnt they follow through with more Minsc and Boo content driven story?
Im not trying to bash, in fact, I think the game needed a reboot for awhile and it was a "ok" start, just needs more end game content, better story lines and maybe a small rescaling of damage in some area's dds.
considering they had enough work with xbox, increasing lvl cap, adding a new class and redesigning stats i have hopes that mod7 might have more focus on polishing existing stuff and adding some quality story, but then again im hoping for that every module xD, but reboot was really needed
new class, new level cap, reworked stats, reworked difficulty for the new cap, reworked dungeons, seems quite a lot of work, im not saying there arent issues, but its quite a lot of work, and more than we have gotten in any mod
Oh, it was fully tested and tester feedback was completely ignored.
Mod 6 has been a pile of dog <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> from the get-go. It wouldn't have been any more difficult to leave existing content alone and create a new endgame campaign.
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The problem presented was that XP is too low in the new areas. Just how many "non repeatable" quests are available after the main story line is completed? Not a whole lot. So reducing the exp on repeatable quests is a an extremely poor solution to something that should have not been a problem in the first place. There was no problem with the exp rewards in Sharandar, etc. etc. before this mod went live. So why on earth would they make the exp rewards lower?
Did you run Azures and inscribed garments? I did and didn't have a problem either, HOWEVER, without that, the exp is way too low.
(Yes, I am only at level 68 on my main because I am a casual player).
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
Alot of the perception of the new areas could be addressed, by allowing you to take all the quests at once.
But becuase you have to run around and do things 4 quests at a time, often repeating the same quest area over and over and over and over.. its boring.
The 2 first zones are the worst, they are rehashed and do not give any real reason to do them (hence the reason many of us just did ToD dailies instead until 66 , then go to spinward)
The problem is, running the old level 55-60 content I was getting 8000-10,000 exp per quest with azures and inscribed garments. The new content was giving around 5000 exp for spinward quests.
To me that is a complete disconnect. I didn't even bother with the new content till I was already level 66. I shouldn't have to run 5 azures and inscribed garments to get 5K exp.
I should also add that despite having run through the old content (at least 10 different characters to 60) I still like the old content and the way the quests/story line were done.
Making level 60 - 70 be done doing dailies/repeated quests is just a cheap cop out and is not a proper design. I find it boring grabbing the same set of quests over and over again. So the reason folks think the XP is too low is also because they don't want to keep doing the same quests over and over.
Nope. No azures, no inscribed garments, no exp boosters. Haven't done a single dungeon run, pvp match or a daily. Just played the game as intended.
I don't see how that is possible. I started Spinward Rise at 66 running 5 Rank 10 Azures and inscribed garments so something like 90% bonus XP and didn't hit 70 till just before finishing the 2nd set of Vigilance quests. I did this on 3 different characters and it was pretty much the same point on all of them, so you HAD to be doing something extra (way beyond just the vigilance quests).
Most quests were giving me around 5K exp, with a rare few that gave over 10K.