Leveling Speed

Wiki says the following:

On release the developers anticipate max level should be attainable in approximately 45 days if playing 4-6 hours per day.

This is equal to ~225 hours to reach level 50. What is your opinion about it? Would you like it to be faster or slower?

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Ludullu

Slower

Saabynator

I would generally like a slow level speed. Although, if they do come through on all the vertical progression and the - really freaking awesome!, world they wanna make, then leveling speed will be less important. But I am a huge fan of the old EQ1 leveling times. It should take a long time, as long as there is stuff to do while leveling. Every cool thing should not come after max level, it should come along the way.

Flanker

Agree with gentlemen above

TheHiddenDaggerInn

Slower, I'm not gonna lie I will be playing at least 10 hour sessions and I'm sure some will be far exceeding that. I want it to really feel like a accomplishment when I get there.

Flanker

ILLPeonU wrote: »

Slower, I'm not gonna lie I will be playing at least 10 hour sessions and I'm sure some will be far exceeding that. I want it to really feel like a accomplishment when I get there.

Only 10-hour long sessions? You are what... 97 years old? Your enemies are grinding while you sleep, you can't let that happen. No less than 20 hours per day, that's an order!

Saabynator

I would generally like a slow level speed. Althoui

ILLPeonU wrote: »

Slower, I'm not gonna lie I will be playing at least 10 hour sessions and I'm sure some will be far exceeding that. I want it to really feel like a accomplishment when I get there.

Shit. I will probably use a weeks vacation, a couple of days after launch.

TheHiddenDaggerInn

Saabynator wrote: »

I would generally like a slow level speed. Althoui

ILLPeonU wrote: »

Slower, I'm not gonna lie I will be playing at least 10 hour sessions and I'm sure some will be far exceeding that. I want it to really feel like a accomplishment when I get there.

Shit. I will probably use a weeks vacation, a couple of days after launch.

oh for sure , at least a week. Probably best like you said to do that like a week after launch, just in case of hiccups.

TheHiddenDaggerInn

Flanker wrote: »

ILLPeonU wrote: »

Slower, I'm not gonna lie I will be playing at least 10 hour sessions and I'm sure some will be far exceeding that. I want it to really feel like a accomplishment when I get there.

Only 10-hour long sessions? You are what... 97 years old? Your enemies are grinding while you sleep, you can't let that happen. No less than 20 hours per day, that's an order!

Lol not 97, but a old fart none the less at almost 52. Consistency will win in the long run, as a friend of my always refers to it as "Old Bull" When people burn themselves out, and move to the next game I'll keep chugging along making my mark in Verra!

Flanker

ILLPeonU wrote: »

Lol not 97, but a old fart none the less at almost 52. Consistency will win in the long run, as a friend of my always refers to it as "Old Bull" When people burn themselves out, and move to the next game I'll keep chugging along making my mark in Verra!

Haha sounds like a plan!

tautau

Slower...once release date is known, I will give my notice at work.

AnimusRex

Slower.

I think a lot of players are seeing Ashes as the game that will restore their faith in well... games. And so intend to maximise it's value and enjoy every moment. And the longer that takes, the better.

TheHiddenDaggerInn

AnimusRex wrote: »

Slower.

I think a lot of players are seeing Ashes as the game that will restore their faith in well... games. And so intend to maximise it's value and enjoy every moment. And the longer that takes, the better.

Not only that, but it will give them a bit more time to keep adding content, and start to see problems arise as people start to reach max level in waves due the slower progression. when the first group of try hards reach max level, they will start to see any issues that might arise, better to have that happen with a smaller group of players then over 50% reaching max level near the same time.

Aszkalon

Flanker wrote: »

Wiki says the following:

On release the developers anticipate max level should be attainable in approximately 45 days if playing 4-6 hours per day.

This is equal to ~225 hours to reach level 50. What is your opinion about it? Would you like it to be faster or slower?

Maybe it is not wrong to double the Time or do it a bit below double the time.
Like Eighty to Ninety Days, instead of Fourty-Five.

Levelling a Character - especially for the first time - in a completely new and fresh World - should be an Experience that sticks with You.

And People should take it somewhat serious if they want to level more than one Character.

But only my own fifty Cents here.

Flanker

ILLPeonU wrote: »

AnimusRex wrote: »

Slower.

I think a lot of players are seeing Ashes as the game that will restore their faith in well... games. And so intend to maximise it's value and enjoy every moment. And the longer that takes, the better.

Not only that, but it will give them a bit more time to keep adding content, and start to see problems arise as people start to reach max level in waves due the slower progression. when the first group of try hards reach max level, they will start to see any issues that might arise, better to have that happen with a smaller group of players then over 50% reaching max level near the same time.

Additionally, there are always those continuous arguments about "getting to the max level asap" and "paying more attention to exploration/quests/etc.". In my opinion, slower progression may be one of the solutions for this.

Take New World as an example. On launch, you could reach max level in several days (at least that's what it took for me). Reading quest dialogues, exploring other location and stuff like that could be fun, but it was counter-productive because this will basically disqualify you from participating in wars/invasions.

mcstackerson

If you reduced the power given by levels and allowed players to participate in content as combatants at lower levels then I'm fine with having a long leveling experience, I might even prefer it. I don't enjoy having to grind for months to be able to play the game and with the trend of adding leveling boosts to MMOs, it's clear that gating content (usually endgame content) behind leveling in MMOs has issues.

Fantmx

Still too fast

Nerror

Make levelling twice as long and I would be happy.

However, there is a balance to strike for the overall health and well-being of the game. If it takes the casual players a full calendar year to hit 50, that also means fewer players focusing on more end-gamey things, and that will suck for the more time-hardcore players, because the game needs a lot of players at or near 50 to really shine I think. And there is the whole issue with some players getting too far ahead in the gear, freehold. etc. departments. We'll lose the casuals if they feel they'll never be able to catch up. No casuals = dead game.

Dygz

Ashes doesn't really have "end-gamey" things.
You do the same stuff at Level 1 that you do at Level 50.

Sauronplay

The level should be in accordance with the amount of lore there is and also the new expansions, which intrepid will also increase the level, but I also like it slower, since I had an unpleasant experience with NW on this topic.

Flanker

Sauronplay wrote: »

I had an unpleasant experience with NW on this topic.

I can relate to that

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