Comments on: Guild Wars 2 – Level Cap, And?

By: Xandey

Xandey — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:53:50 +0000

I know a-net knows what to do… For me GW was a challange,it was dificult to get trough FoW, alone or in a group (before the SC). If they are doing this right, all this balancing is done for a good challange.anyways leveling constantly is good after all I want to spend my time
in PvP,dungeons and this stuff,that means I don’t want to level for months to get the whole, the essence of the game, the challange and fun of course.

By: Callan S.

Callan S. — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:02:37 +0000

I thought it was rather informative to say that if thirty minutes at level 1 gets you to level 2, also that thirty minutes at level 50 gets you to level 51 (I don’t know it takes thirty minutes, just using that number).

By: spinks

spinks — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:36:32 +0000

I think the question may be more why you enjoy the first 20 levels so much more. Because the fact they go by quickly might be a part of that.

By: Game by Night » Removing the Level Curve

Game by Night » Removing the Level Curve — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:35:25 +0000

[...] the diluting of levels…. meaning? Power? Importance? Ravious asks a great question on Kill Ten Rats: “…important question that should have been immediately followed up is ‘how do [...]

By: Gnnahh

Gnnahh — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:56:30 +0000

The 80 is a produkt out of 20(the lvl-cap of gw1) 2(for Guild Wars 2) and 2(both checksum of 20 an checksum of 2)
xD

By: Bhagpuss

Bhagpuss — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:14:44 +0000

If you wait long enough, everything you wish for happens. Flat levelling has been a dream of mine since the old EQ hell levels days.

If, like me, you generally enjoy the first 20 levels of an MMO a LOT more than the last 20 levels, having them pass in the blink of an eye adds injury to insult. I just hope the 80 levels in Guild Wars are all paced at something like the mid-range “take quite a while” pace not the tutorial “over in moments” pace (or the approaching-level-cap “is this ever going to end?” pace, for that matter).

By: darkeye

darkeye — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:39:49 +0000

Would like to see them remove XP from killing mobs entirely, and just give XP for completing events, achievements and dungeons, or collecting traits. Those sound engaging activities, else there is still going to be situations where it might be more ‘productive’ to stay in one area grinding out mobs to get those last few (rep/XP) bars rather than searching for activity or putting together a group. I would have preferred for them to ditch levels entirely, but a small change like that would be good.

Really disappointed they didn’t touch on mob power levels too, maybe for a future post. The whole notion of levelling up to take on higher levels of the same mob is really starting to get ridiculous, just think about the difference between health pools of lvl 1 and 80 in WOW. It’s probably wishful thinking to hope for them to flatten that curve as well, for a situation where increasing in level allows me to take on more and more standard mobs at a time, and being able to solo mini-bosses, then bosses and finally big bosses.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:39:06 +0000

37?!

By: hunter

hunter — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:11:54 +0000

I agree, its far too light on details. Not sure why they released anything at all if thats everything we were going to get.

As for the 80 specifically, who cares, its an arbitrary number just like every other game has an arbitrary number.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:05:30 +0000

For me, just hearing news about a flat leveling curve was enough. Cheers to ArenaNet!