People have hit Level 60s!Just as I expected, it is a RogueFollow

Uh, how about no.

I like it just the way it is.

heh, thats why i want this game, so i can get it, lvl up fast, and then show off my flashy character and make my freinds from skool go OMFG U R TEH UBER!!11112!11!11

not really, its just not a level grinding game, theyll prolly up the level cap sometime next year

This seems less of Blizzards problem in game length rather this is a person who simply has no or very very very... little life. Thats like 75% of his time playing a game i guess that leaves time for a little sleep and maybe 1 meal if u hurry. Well at least he gets his money worth =).

i dont understand why people take issue with the possibility of quick leveling...

of course it's possible... but you're also going to miss out on so much. is he even following the storyline? or just finishing levels for xp?

that's totally cool if that's how he plays, but i play every free chance i get and i'm only at level 23. i'm totally cool with that.

Why not carry on this conversation on the thread that was started about this subject the other day.

Edited, Mon Dec 6 18:49:53 2004 by SeomanP

thats cool that they are lvl 60...but im trying to do all the quests i can so i dont lvl up so quickly ;p.

funny thing is theres a 60 mage a 60 druid and a 60 hunter on my server that i have seen and hes getting super excited about it

its gonna take me a while to get up there cus i cant seem to decide which class i wanna play, ive got rogue mage warrior shaman druid and hunter all up to 12-13 and dont know what i want to play

I love the game, but it is sad you can cap in two weeks, I mean whats the point, just my opinion. I mean at that rate you could cap every job in like 1.5 months playtime.

Well being a former Rng/nin on Odin in FFXI, I can say it takes time to level only b/c there is no "REAL" soloing in FFXI except for Beastmaster. I can see a Static party get to lvl 50 in about 2-3 weeks or about 5-7 days of playtime in FFXI if they dont have to worry about money to finance their level grind. In FFXI this was done 1 of 2 ways: 1 buy gil, or 2 have a high character already and u have the cash, so leveling a 2nd job would be EZ compared to the 1st time around.

With WoW, yes u can grind it out but the fun is getting to the final levels and there is still more fun at the end unlike FFXI where endgame is getting kinda blah with less invites, and less higher people and limited endgame quests...Dynamis, Gods or HNM with different timezones and all the usual FFXI partying problems, wife aggro etc that finally made me quit. IT JUST TOOK TOO LONG PERIOD...it became work instead of fun or rewarding.

In WoW, I feel you can grind or quest and the quests are actually fun and give u GOOD REWARDS unlike some other games. That is what makes you good, if you do the quests and complete the storyline, than and killing the occasional Horde member with your 1337 LEET UBER Blue 2 handed Sword of HA HA U DEAD NOW ^^

Its that fun I miss, Im sure that lvl 60 didnt do much PvP did he??? Man thats 1/2 the fun there but in his defense, he got the boring part done, now he can cut loose with a fully loaded character with semi-decent equip and kill as was meant in this game.

WoW is wow in my book, the grind to 60 should then be EZ to a FFXI player, which he probably was and wanted to finally CAP something... I can relate..

Thanks for listening to my rant...

This is the one thing that concerns me about this game.


Hitting cap so soon. I heard about this story and this character, and alot of my friends refused to believe me that anyone could hit the level cap this soon. They told me I was wrong, and no way in hell could someone hit the cap that soon. They refused to believe me. Nice now, that I will have links and whatnot to prove them that I knew wtf I was speaking about.


Speaking from personal experience in all the MMO's I have been, namely, Asheron's Call 2, (( Cough *Sucked* Cough )) I knew by the way people were talking, that this was indeed entirely possible.


Yes, he knew the game really well. Yes he knew how to get there very very quick. The problem that others do not see, is that soon, within a month or 2, so too will they know how to make the best Exp/Hour, Best Gold, Best gear, patterns etc.

This is not a slow game. It goes very quickly. It is one the things that is sadly, keeping me away from it. That and I come to find out IMO people STILL can't do long haired human avatars right like I want to have for my male Character. I'd play a Male Night Elf but of course due to beliefs/history they can't be a warlock. Which is what I would desire to play. ~Grumbles~

I realize WoW is designed to be a casual game, but the problem is the inherent desire for all gamers to want to hit the cap, to get the best armor etc in the game. Not all of us are this way, but most are.

Soon people run out of stuff to do. And then, as I have seen in the past, patches are released etc and the players go through the content in a few days or less, then cry there is nothing to do.


Asheron's call 2 is a horribly prime example of what can go wrong when people level up too fast. People in that game from launch, and for a while after, were capable of hitting level 35 from level 1 in a single day. Dare I say hours. I am not kidding.

WoW does indeed go a bit slower then that I think. I don't think that this game has something as so obviously abused as Fetich Spawn incursions, but still.


I honestly, and sincerely hope Blizzard gives people plenty to do after they cap. Otherwise I see this game stagnating. I should note that Blizzard probably has the resources to keep people entertained and going on, hopefully releasing new quests and content that people won't chew through in days after a patch comes out or whatnot.

Well, I hear some of you say, Just make a new character!

Yes, speaking from experience, I have done that in other various games. Then what happens when you cap those too? Grow bored with it. You've done everything in a few months there is to do, and you are at the top of the heap...with nothing left to do but log in and chat.

I should note that this is very much a worse case scenario. But I am sure some of you guys can understand where I am coming from. I really would like to try out this game. I play FFXI and love it personally, will not let it go. That is just me. And No I Don't play a Mage job in that game. I'm a Mithra Dark Knight. Level 60 Recently.

But still, I think it would be nice to try out this game, log in for an hour or so, play something a little refreshing and get some solo exp, then do whatever else I want to do. You know, play it casually.

Like I said...the only thing concerning me is the fact that people can hit cap so quick. :-/

That is the one thing keeping me from this. It is my foremost and primary concern.


Ah well, my 2 Gold.

Draconis

I guess you missed the Onyxia contest in Open beta.

I've killed a few whelps (which were strangely enough, level 43, whereas there's a level 44+ dragon wandering around Alterac... weeeeird.) before. I've seen Somnus the level 62+ Green Dragon at the Pool of Tears the other day...

Anyways. Have you taken a look at the Thottbot page on his character? Let's just say, his gear is weak. My level 43 Rogue friend has better gear than that. See, when you powerlevel, you can't grind through instances with guildies to get the good equipment...

You know, this is the same "problem" I'm having. I put that in quotes because it's really not a problem at all. It means that more than one class is fun to me, which is always a great thing. I like rogue, priest, mage, warrior, druid, and warlock, for different reasons. In fact, what's even more indicative of that is the fact that I'm even considering levelling up multiple characters of the same class since with talents, the play experience and approach to each fight differs depending on what area a character is focused in.

At the end of the first stress test, I was sure I was going to be one of those folks shooting for the level cap in record time. I even took the time off work to do it. But after playing in OB, my perspective changed a great deal so now I'm at the point where I have to choose a "main" or level multiple toons and keep them all fairly close to each other in level.

From all that I've seen, it seems Blizzard is taking the opposite position to most MMOs. They're concentrating most of their focus to the upper end of the game from day one. So most of the new content and features are going to be focused on the upper half of the level spectrum. What makes them different from say, a Sony, is that they've actually put things in place that allow the majority of the playerbase to GET to those levels quickly (instead of a privileged few). I'm sure there will be encounters that require a great deal of organization (which is usually the domain of the "power guilds"), but if I had to venture a guess, I'd say those will be more the exception than the rule.



Edited, Sat Dec 11 15:37:53 2004 by Jazheira