Effects of insta lvl 95 pills, the fun and pain of it

I'm not sure if PWE or anybody else realised this already but in this instance the new players are also VICTIMS of the leveling pill. They create their new accounts and toons and then happily take their steroids, and all of a sudden they come face to face with a staggering amount of frustration and trolling and ridicule. If I was a newbie, just the amount of vitriol I see on world chat directed to those of my ilk would be enough to put me off the game. But I guess to a business this is just a numbers game. If you can get X amount of new players and Y% of them stay on and endure through the baptism of fire, and that Y% turns out to be a good ROI (return on investments), all is well.

lanebre wrote: »

Thats his point. Newbies don't have pickaxe

And what if the newbies are stormbringers and duskblades. This new classes have no pickaxe either.

In my opinion it can be good too.
For one reason yes, its really annoying the lots of noob 100+ chars, but for an another reason, the deadly servers now again active...really active. And in my opinion as a tt mat dealer, i think my business going to goes up And it for just me. Ppl who sell g16 service card packs or anything, now ppl going to buy them. I think its good for the echonomy.b:pleased (I hope with time, they going to learn how to play toob:surrender)

bloodedone87 wrote: »

And what if the newbies are stormbringers and duskblades. This new classes have no pickaxe either.

That's a rather invalid point. The main contention for insta 95/100 is they got the level without the gear, or knowledge. A stormbringer/duskblade does not have the option to do this; meaning they got it through playing the game, or that it is an alt of a knowledgeable player utilizing known tricks and twinking to speed their new class through the levels. Which means they'd have access to a pickaxe from their main.

Stormbringers and duskblades should be one of the safest classes to bring along at the moment, simply because they can't hyper FCC or use the insta-95 stone.

Anri_Rose - Archosaur wrote: »

Prepare yourself , the rage is coming.

Haha Crystal babies, the ultimate culmination of powerlvling in PWI.

First we had Oracle babies, and there was QQ and rage but then it subsided as time passed.

But then we had Hyper FC babies, who would lvl so fast that we didnt have time to QQ and rage.

Now we have Crystal babies whose Insta lvl 95 toons come with minimal gears and skills and find their sneak way into the YOUR runs. Where the proceed to cause complete party wipes..

Oh yes the QQ and rage shall be strong in the coming weeks.,

You forgot CS, BH, reflections and a few others.

AEU sucks so much now. So so SO much.

Having 8/9 of the other members in squad be utterly useless or completely incompetent is a royal pain.

morai world chats:

-Hello ,I am new here and lvl 100.What do I do now?

-Hey guys, where do I buy Astral lvl X?

b:shutup

My Blacklist was empty all those years, except maybe 1-2 people.
Now with in 1 week it expanded to 78 people, mostly those russian cyrillic spamers.
When will ur *friends* leave Mars.......? b:cry

OPKossy wrote: »

AEU sucks so much now. So so SO much.

Having 8/9 of the other members in squad be utterly useless or completely incompetent is a royal pain.

This has been all my AEU squads on bushes path since bh got updated to include AEU. b:surrender

The other side of the noob problem is the veterans. You can't assume all who used the pill is a free-loading noob. Some do genuinely want to learn an instance or their new class alt. These people should be taught and guided as they'll add to the endgame population that knows whats going on.
I don't disagree on the ones that have no gear, no culti, and no skills/buffs though, and they should rightfully be kicked and denied from any squads.

I'll take anyone when I WC, if they're new and want to learn whatever instance we're doing, great. Love to teach new people and makes for a new person that knows the run in the future.
If they're looking for a free ride, don't want to learn or are jeopardizing the run, the problem goes away with the press of the kick button.
The noobs who have no gear, no culti, no skills just need to be kicked from squads. Don't put up with their **** and post woes here. Kick them.

The ones who genuinely want to learn, did their culti, have skills and working on gear....guide and teach them and they'll add to the community of people who knows whats going on.

The group of bad ones will get quickly get tired of not being able to do anything and either do what they're supposed to or quit.

Once the stone becomes a pay item, the influx of these new people will drop way off.

Also a funny thing for "pillpeople" -> the rewards when levelling. Most are missing. Less funny is that I see lvl 95+ players aren't able to kill easy dudes like Khewy or Architect. Giving away free ressurections/buffs since the pill-update b:laugh

LOL been playing 6 years now (since shortly after game started). Used the pills to make a couple of alts of classes i like (so I can have one demon and one sage - yes, I'm nuts) or lvl alts I'd had coming along slowly.

Good thing about the pill -- people seem more ready to accept your squad invite when you doing mobs or minibosses. That had gone by the wayside long ago, sadly. Hope it continues.

Bad thing -- Got so used to my mains having their skills and gear that it's sometimes hard to remember my pill babies aren't that good yet. lol And yes, agree with others about pill babies not taking time to learn game, skills, classes, but that will come (hope hope hope).


As for coin -- I'm crazy enough to have enough jolly jones slaves that I make sure my pill babies have the coin on them to max skills as they do each culti lvl. Am too chicken to send them out "naked" without that LOL

Have fun all y'all and try to be patient....maybe....if we can....

Okay, so I started PWI a little before Dreamweaver existed. After DW was born, I made it my permanent home in PWI. This was after I discovered my obsession with character appearance customization, so I made 8 accounts worth of characters, just so I could reserve names and give them unique faces.

But then it hit me. While I was leveling early on, I got to FB59. Something happened that changed me. When I was told that I missed a quest to dig something extra in FB59, it triggered my OCD. I was too insecure to let that go.

Well that playstyle has held me down for YEARS now, as I started leveling every character I had. I deleted some in favor of Tideborn and Earthguard characters, of course starting to level them as well. I only reserved a handful of characters as mules.

I got burnt out. Questing the same nab quests over and over and over again really isn't fun. But I couldn't let go. My OCD held me to be a quest completionist on every single character. I couldn't get past level 70. The ease of the quests and the larger exp and coin pool they rewarded never helped my case, as I dumped my extra progress into genies.

I quit. Not willingly. I just couldn't take it any more. PWI had became stale to me. Even as I started TT... it just wasn't enough to keep my interest. Especially when all my friends were trying to get me to powerlevel with FCC. "You know all the classes in and out" they said. I knew I didn't, I never experienced the higher-end skills after all. But I'm not a PvPer, and I do know my way around the roles(tank, healer, DDer), so I knew I could hold my own in a dungeon. What they said kinda boosted my self-esteem a bit, despite my insecurities.

Then the newest expansion came. I heard about the Illusionary Crystal giveaway. This was what would give me the boost I needed to get over that damned quest completionist nonsense that held me back AND could give me a chance to contribute more to my friends and faction.

So the expansion hit. The bug that happened when the crystal boxes were handed out yielded me to not only have 10 characters boosted, but a couple of them even to level 100. Greatest day in PWI, I thought.

But of course, there were downsides to everyone being given instant level 95 status. I knew that. I knew that it sent so many people to high-level status, despite them not knowing how to play their character. I knew that it was an overall downer on the game as a whole, despite it helping me personally out a great deal.

I rejoined my old faction. I was welcomed back with open arms from the ones that remembered me from over a year ago(maybe 2 years even?). Sweet, I almost felt like an actual part of the group now. Almost. There were still many new faces in the faction. But that's okay, I love meeting new people and working with them.

But then 12/22/14 happened. After I blew through BH39 in an attempt to clear my nab stack of BHs, I came across something called a "Nuema". I guess it was from one of the newer expansions, from the War Avatar one I believe. I had no idea what to do with it. So I linked it to my faction's chat. Apparently one of the members decided to troll me, telling me that if I rightclick it, it'll make me a god. I thought "sure!", it can't hurt. Probably isn't a rare item anyway. So I did. "Nothing happened" I said. "lol new players" my faction mate said.

I cussed him/her out(getting around the censors as best I could), blocked that person, and left the fleet. That comment cut very deep. It hurt. I felt like I could never play PWI again. And it still does. I'm not sure what to do now. I don't have any faction to call home, nor have a group of friends in-game any more. Yes, I had PWI issues before the pill, but holy hell it destroyed my PWI experience pretty quickly.

FML. b:cry


If you read my tl;dr blog post, thank you.

I wc for an opener for TT and got a 4 or 5 replies, being fair i went for first one that whispered me, level 100 sin. I thought good, prob demon BP be handy given my sin alt only has 10. She turns up, I opened, we buff, I pay her 100k and run to the portal, next thing I knew shes still next to me. I thought maybe shes just gna help with first boss so decided to say nothing. So we reach first boss and she gets 1 shoted. I kill and she comes back, by which time i've moved on past next portal.

I said "do you need anything in here" to which she replies "no, im not needing anything" I replied "you are welcome to everything apart from forshuras hooks and any gold" to which she replied "oh, i was after the forshura's hooks but you can have them i suppose"

I'm feeling a tad annoyed at this point and suspected she'd make a runner with my hooks, i was so tempted to kick her but I'm too nice and couldnt do it. Anyways we kill first wurlord and she's like "wheres the drops?" I'm like "we need to kill him 4 times" so in she wades to the whole bunch and promptly dies. I had the 3 killed by time she returned and got myself 4 hooks b:chuckle

Oh and her BP was only level 10 at best

Yea, I dunno. Not that hard to deal with the insta 100. I made a barb and I went and started doing culti. Light sail cave ( the new fb19) had a couple annoying parts but pretty easy just using tiger form, auto attack and devour silly nooks.