Reducing Power lvlers:

ArcticRain - Raging Tide wrote: »

for example, minimum lvl you can go to FC would be 75.

It wouldn't change a lot of things... People would just have to find a 100+ mobs area where there are not too much people/bots and put the low level in follow mode in the air.
It wouldn't be as easy as leveling in FC but easy enough to be level 75 very fast then go to fc

Anyway even without powerleveling, the quests are to easy and you don't need to know your class to be able to do them. Then you have bh and just by doing quests+bh you now up too fast to level 75-80 to really know your class at that level. Plus the fact that your skills won't be at their max, no 79 skills, no Morai skills, no 100 skills (and I don't even mention New Horizons).
So basically this is as if the game starts at level 100...

The problem is not that much the power leveling in itself but just the fact that even after being 100+ some people don't care to learn how to play their class efficiently.
I suppose you can find people 100+ that never went to FC and still don't know their class as you can find people that have been power leveled from 1 to 100 in a few days but now know how to play their class

Anything that would encourage teamwork will not really have any success, seeing the increase of the antisocial behavior of most people playing this game.
Very few take the time and effort to make friends and actually try stuff out together. "Everybody for themselves".

In any MMO you will find people that have no idea how to play their class, being the majority, power level or not. Most people just choose a class with the name/description they find most fancy and run around for the sake of doing it, without actually caring about what they could contribute or worrying about achieving their class true potential.
And then they focus on the quantity, not the quality, why they rush to end game thinking it will be absolutely amazing and glorious but... It is all like a beautifully wrapped present box, which you open only to find it is empty.

I do agree the game in itself is not fair with this. Most of the compelling content is for level 100+ which is really terrible.

... and yet I find myself thinking... Gosh, has the OP finally reached 105*3 himself, and now wants others to stop being an equal so easily?

Powerleveling will happen. Players will find a way to. Heck, PWI has even made an instance specifically for it - Phoenix Valley. If people really want to grind themselves to the top, I'd say, have at it. If it's fun for those players, who are you to say they shouldn't be able to do that? They're not bothering you with it.

I've joined this game with 2 friends. We've played the game together and are just now nearing sage cultivation. We've had a lot of fun doing difficult instances (Barb/Cleric/Mystic party) with just 3 players working together. Since I played a lot more I've created some alts for myself to solo with - a cleric and a BM the most notable. But I find playing together with a small party of people working closely together to be MUCH more enjoyable then joining a random BH ('though being a cleric has it's moments - last sunday, last one in on a SoT run as the only cleric - first job was to res half the party who tried to rush the boss and failed... that brought me a grin)

Some people are just objective-driven. They see level 105*3 with full T6 nuemas, all titles, R9RR+12 and a full set of S+ war avatars as winning the game. Me? I'm not in a hurry to get there. Once you win the game like that it becomes boring, and then you leave...

Evalria - Sanctuary wrote: »

Anything that would encourage teamwork will not really have any success, seeing the increase of the antisocial behavior of most people playing this game.
Very few take the time and effort to make friends and actually try stuff out together. "Everybody for themselves".

In any MMO you will find people that have no idea how to play their class, being the majority, power level or not. Most people just choose a class with the name/description they find most fancy and run around for the sake of doing it, without actually caring about what they could contribute or worrying about achieving their class true potential.
And then they focus on the quantity, not the quality, why they rush to end game thinking it will be absolutely amazing and glorious but... It is all like a beautifully wrapped present box, which you open only to find it is empty.

I do agree the game in itself is not fair with this. Most of the compelling content is for level 100+ which is really terrible.

I do believe you people complain too much on other players skills
This is just a game after all, people have no actual obligation with it, most people play casually.
And for casual players, not being able to powerlevel just kills the game.
It is not fun taking an eternity to see your character strong.
I think they should even allow for power gearing too (Like the game with T by those guys with E which became fRee to plAy on feb 2013), because people don't want to make terrible effort.

The big question here is: Leveling/gearing in PWI is just a pain in the ***, tremendous effort for a few slight moment of feeling rewarded, and this makes the game stupid and pointless.

In the game I mentioned:
- You reach maximum level in about 1 month.
- You go an instance where you get what there's equivallent to g16 here, its Bind on Pickup and people can just roll/pass on drop (bosses drop an equipment smartbox, when opened gives you class based already made equipment).
- refining there is easy and cheap (compared to PWI) and you never lose refining levels
- never lose exps on dying (lose some gear crystals, which are relatively cheap),
- no need to repair gears
- Extremely low expense with consumables
- Almost no need to farm for coins (Refining items can be farmed on instances)
- PvP is actually balanced and there's even 1 PvP instance for 30~60 which makes everyone equivallently strong (besides player skills/skill levels).
- The game play is funny and graphics are eyecandy. (superficial, but still...)
- In that game, you never feel underpowered for being a f2p user, but you feel the sensation of status for beying a paying user.
- Quests there are very rewarding
- Monsters there give way more money and exps (relatively comparing to PWI), means 1h grinding normal mobs there is actually more worthy.
- Market is not messed up.
- Chances on boxes are not nearly impossible for rare items.
- Rare drops are not nearly impossible.
- Being endgame is easy, having the strongest equipment rasonably difficult ( WAAAY cheaper and easier than r9r3 tho)
- You can reroll adds without losing refines, no matter what gears or refines and you can lock certain adds you would NOT like to reroll.

And with all those differences, I do only still play PWI because I'm not here for the game itself, and not here for myself too.

But I will complain A LOT, because maybe someday PWI turns into a decent game, in that day I will not complain anymore.

I might definitely want to add: Perfect World has started walking the fine path.
With the new expansion it seems easy and cheap to get going and growing along the new contents, now they just need to make it easier to reach g16/r9r3 gears from in-game so everyone can enjoy PvP.
I would suggest a dungeon that allows people to make G16 gears from scratch in about 2 weeks, and a dungeon that allows people to make r9r3 gears from g16 in about 3 months. (maximum of 1 run per day per dungeon, 2 runs with gshop item).
Its RIDICULOUS to make the PvP aspect of the game only accessible to paying users.