Leveling Speed = *VROOM*?Follow

This can be a bad thing..

I understand that DAoC is another game that adopt this faster leveling policy..
I have a friend who recently joined DAoC, and guess what..everyone there were all level 50, doing PvP..
there were VERY FEW people from level 1-40

The game looks as if its "dying"

it didnt??

i thought leveling was VERY fast in that game lol..i think i mixed it up with another game..

I dont think the grind is as bad as L2 =P

Edited, Wed Oct 13 04:13:06 2004 by FFMania

it took you 8-9 hours to get to level 10?!? im not bragging or anything but i can get a char to lvl 10 in 3 hours. i think your numbers are off a bit.

I just found a REALLY simple way to explain it for all you people still concerned/angry/complaining about the fast lvling speed.

Okay here we go, Say each game has a % to it. For example, Mario would have 100% platforming(no leveling, no pvp, etc.)

Now(just gonna use ffxi as a comparative since its the only other *big* mmo i have played) ffxi has lets say, 90% level grind(maybe more, maybe less) and 10% lvl cap activities(pvp, dynamis, whatchamacallit, etc)

WoW has more like 50% leveling(which doesnt even seem like THAT much since you will be questing and ACTUALLY having fun while doing so) and 50% lvl cap activities.(pvp, battlegrounds, raids, instances, heroes, etc.)

Now, which would you rather do? 90% lvl grind and 10% fun? or 50% of fun leveling and questing and 50% of the fun lvl cap activities?

wheeee i dunno that just kinda came into my head

And regarding how long it takes you to level to 10, it probably took me 8 or 9 hours the first time, too. I've done it enough now that I could do it in a little over 3. (Takes me 1 hour to get to 6, 2 hours to get to 8, and I'm mostly done 9 by the end of the third.) I can only do this because I know the game, my character, and the area/quests. If I decided to play a class I don't know in an area I don't know, I would expect it to take me at least 4-5.

*Cough. Tries not to show his nerddom* Super Mario 3 had pvp, there were 3 Mario rpgs that wasn't platforming and mostly all of Mario's "other" games were sports with either pvp or rpg elements... *jumps out a window*

Ok. I lvld each class during the stress test to 10 and it took me anywhere between 8-9 hrs to do so. In an area where I knew the quests already, I flew through and I could lvl the job to 10 in a much quicker time (maybe 3-5 if memory suits me). That was only after I knew the area and just flew through it without reading the quests in depth and searching the zones.

So what I said still stands for people just starting the game new to whatever they start in. To put it simple....lvl 10 in day is common and easily done.

No, no, Azuarc, not part 1! I'm talking about part 3 where you get that mini game where you got to kill your opponent by using the center POW block and collect all the coins. Besides, PvP means PvP. You really don't need to kill each other to consider it PvP. It's still player versus player if you are competing. Hell, Tetris has PvP...

I'd just point out that even with the competition to get into closed beta, nobody in stress-test managed to hit the level cap in a week. There were kids with no jobs that hooked themselves up to catheters and iv streams of nutrients and amphetemines that did not manage to hit the end, so I'd say the reports are exaggerated.

The leveling rate is quick- just not THAT quick. I don't know if I could hit 20 in 24 hours- since that would be just a little over a level an hour, I don't think so... MAYBE if I had everything I needed to do figured out before I started, and I did it with two other people to make the kill quests pass quickly... At any rate, if you liked eq1s original leveling speed, you will be disappointed- it's faster. But the estimates provided at the beginning of this thread are a large exaggeration.

i was also hopeing that maybe the level caps could be made higher and higher as the developers release expansions with new areas, mobs, etc. i see no reason why mmorpgs couldnt allow players to keep getting more powerful as long as the game kept expanding. i may be wrong but that would be my dream game

Ya there isnt a big hurry for you like there was in the stress test either...I hear all these FFXI players saying how WoW is gonna fail cause everyone will hit lvl cap in a month or 2...thats just dumb, WoW takes the booring part out of MMO's completely imo....I might play C&D instead of WoW tho....

Amen Vampknight

I dont want to waste 500 hours of gameplay just for the stuff you get to do be CRAP...COUGHballistaCOUGH