Reach Max Level, then what?

My understanding is level cap is quite readily obtained in a realively short period of time.
So upward progression is short and simple.

So once cap is reached, what is next ... horizontal progression?

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akabear

I think IS described AoC more as a Themebox than a sandbox.. but with little demonstrative PoC, will have to see the weighting between sandbox and themepark

Hinotori

Ashes will be similar to every other mmo.therell be resource gathering for node wars and sieges with pvp for those, your own gear progression path, your profession path to build. Achievements to chase. Secrets and map exploration. There'll be caravans to run for gold and to move your resource where it's needed. Caravans to raid. You'll need to raid/dungeon for gear repair materials.

There's a bunch of hamster wheels to run on.

Percimes

If seeing numbers increase is your things, you can always start with another character. If you want to set the difficulty bar higher, do so on another server where you don't know anyone.

Savic Prosperity

i imagine for the adventurer level cap you'd be wanting to try to get a max tier node so it spawns max level content to get your best gear and so a lot of time will be spent working on nodes
i dont know if pvp is normalized in any way in terms of if your level matters (like how some games make it where you cant even hit higher level; havent double checked if it was stated in wiki) but im sure a lot of large scale pvp stuff will probably prefer higher level players in many cases

there could be other systems they tie to that level later on as well since a lot of other content wont matter as much for your adventurer level

BaSkA_9x2

Racing to max level removes a lot of fun from playing an MMO, then the people who raced to max level either quit the game after 6 months or start saying "there's not enough content", even if reaching max level takes 100 hours. Each to their own, I guess.

Like every other game, you'll spend months getting BiS gear, transmogs and other rare drops. However, what's actually BiS gear depends on Node development, so once there's enough information out and the Wiki has the actual BiS gear breakdown, people will be able to try and make said BiS gear available, which is going to be interesting.

If you're into professions, you'll be able to max out at most two different professions from one of the artisan trees, so that's a lot of time and gold investment. There's also your house, if you buy one, which I hope will be an interesting feature, not as deep as a PoH in RuneScape, but hopefully interesting and rewarding since to master processing and crafting professions it will require decked out freeholds.

Regarding PvP, you have instanced PvP in Arena (hopefully BGs too, absolutely no reason not to have them), open world PvP ganking, trolling, griefing and some PvX, Castle Sieges which in my opinion will be the main PvP attraction of the game and, last but not least, Node Wars which in my opinion will become rarer the longer time goes by.

Apart from all of that, I personally hope that there will be an Achievement Diary/Collection Log, basically a little UI for general goals for completionist players so you can more easily set goals and get cool titles, cool cosmetics and increase your e-peen size as a reward.

Since I have a life, I'm guessing it'll take me at least 1 year to achieve my modest goals, probably closer to 2 years to run out of content. I would expect that the first "big" expansion will probably be added about 2 years after launch, so I'm happy with that.

Noaani

BaSkA13 wrote: »

Racing to max level removes a lot of fun from playing an MMO, then the people who raced to max level either quit the game after 6 months or start saying "there's not enough content", even if reaching max level takes 100 hours. Each to their own, I guess.

In most MMO's that have released the information, 95%+ of all time spent in game was spent at max level.

If you don't want people complaining about there not being enough content, then the game would need to have 95% of all content be max level content.

Since most games launch with about 25% of content being appropriate for max level (as in, within 5 levels of the level cap - not even just level cap content), those people making that complaint actually have a perfectly valid point.

Rando88

Noaani wrote: »

BaSkA13 wrote: »

Racing to max level removes a lot of fun from playing an MMO, then the people who raced to max level either quit the game after 6 months or start saying "there's not enough content", even if reaching max level takes 100 hours. Each to their own, I guess.

In most MMO's that have released the information, 95%+ of all time spent in game was spent at max level.

If you don't want people complaining about there not being enough content, then the game would need to have 95% of all content be max level content.

Since most games launch with about 25% of content being appropriate for max level (as in, within 5 levels of the level cap - not even just level cap content), those people making that complaint actually have a perfectly valid point.

Well once you hit cap you can't go any higher so of course you'd spend the most time at cap. I don't think it's a valid point if part of the game is the journey to cap and someone rushes through it without sleep. End game is usually just replayable things, it just needs to be fun.

Personally if I spend 250 hours in the game, even if I experience all the content, I'd be able to wait for new content if I enjoyed the 250 hours. That's just the leveling too, then there's getting the best gear and stuff. That's alot to have on release imo, but if you rush the 250 hour part then it's brought onto yourself.

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