dpatten wrote:
Also..
They marketed this as :
20 new zones, 10 new instanced zones and 10 new traditional zones including a huge ship city zone, complete with merchants, tradesman, and quest-givers, where you can gather your party and launch expeditions. The new combat zones are for characters level 50 and over.
Now I don't know how many groups around 50 can survive much in the 2nd/3rd+ zones.. and with some of the spells being in the 50's not all 65...
This seems messed up if they are only catering to the Time level guilds to keep them busy and paying their subscriptions.
It's all relative really. I think that a lot of "lower level" folks have gotten a bit spoiled in the last few expansions because there was content that was "beneath" then level wise, but that due to the market/twinkig they could handle easily.
GoD actually feels a lot like Velious when it came out. It was billed as 30+. Now today, we look at zones like IC and think that a group of 30s would be over kill. But take that same group and put them in Kunark era gear and it was a whole different story...
PoP was similar. At release, how many level 46 people could actually group up even in PoJ? The mobs were shockingly hard at the time. Again, most people didn't consider PoP content worth tackling until they hit 50 (better to just keep whacking stuff in KC at that level for most peeps). But at least PoP had tons of other stuff for lower level folks, so it didn't matter.
Now we have GoD. Same old same old. It's challenging for the level. A group of 50s can tackle the first zone or so (just as those kunark equipped 30s could tackle IC), but that's about it. What did you expect? That the lowest level folks should have full run of the place? We've just gotten used to new expansions that had a wide range of levels, so we could always tackle something a bit lower if we wanted. In GoD, you've got a pretty hard lower limit. Go farther in, and you'll get smacked hard. This isn't really new. It's just that a lot of players haven't seen it since they've been playing.