Dang operator error…

I wonder if this will just change as more people play, but who is to say what would even happen a full year from now. I often just leave empty PQs because they’re impossible otherwise. I have killed 50 or so enemies myself to progress to the next portion only to find myself unable to beat the boss with no other players in sight.

Oh well.

Perhaps over time, if lowbie players begins to dry up, Mythic will do something like WoW did by making lowbie content easier (i.e. Blizzard removing elite enemies from lowbie group quests).

But who knows. I think only time will tell on this issue. Although, I do agree that WAR is more fun to grind through, thus possibly creating more frequent alts. This isn’t a game where you power grind to the level cap so that you can start having fun. This is a game where the fun is interwoven throughout.

If I’m assembling a group ahead of time, why not just put this stuff in a dungeon, or an ordinary group quest? By not having people already participating, Public Quests lose most of their charm IMHO.

That really is the beauty of it all. You can easily level all the way up to 40 is one pairing (mixing pve, rvr, pq’s) Meaning you are basically getting three leveling games in one of you exclude other pairings in your adventures.

Its just a matter of tuning, and I’d imagine the tougher ones will soon be reduced so that a decent group of 5-6 can finish it with proper coordination and effort.

Also, it looks to me like WAR is going to be a fantastic game for alts. 40 ranks, a fast pace, ability to level and get loot in a number of ways, rvr scenario rank boosts — this will all make leveling up your alts way more fun, and the number of classes, where even the most similar seem to have some big differences, not to mention graphically, promotes this. I’m excited about it, at least, and I know some friends of mine are, too. Plus, the feeling of the starting zones — a war going on, and you’re a part of it; brisk movement from camp to town to camp to town and addition of quest goals etc. creating the feeling of a “pace” that, perhaps, based out of a larger hub wouldn’t be there — these things I think are more attractive to a new player entering later in the game’s life, where there is at least NPC and implied movement and importance, rather than the airy, boring lowbie zones of other games.

My only fear is that WAR follows the same sort of path that most of these games do, bumping up numbers… I favor lateral expansion, and if there were never a level cap raise in WAR, I’d be a happy player.