So much fun in Beta - wait, what one TENTH XP reduction ?

[Kapyong]

Woohooo ....
EQ is so much fun, Green Beta is even far more fun than I remember it !

Level 20 already ! :)

But some wet blanket tried to spoil my fun with this silly talk about an XP reduction to only 10% of current value !

Seriously ?
Would Project1999 really ruin our fun so badly ?
Why would they reduce XP to only a TENTH of current values ?
That is cruel and unusual punishment !

I'm shocked, shocked I say !

[Lonedrahon25]

Right now Green Beta has an exp increase of x10. Once Green officially launches, that x10 goes away.

[Graventhel]

Right now Green Beta has an exp increase of x10. Once Green officially launches, that x10 goes away.

/whooosh!

[Ivory]

Everyone has fun on a car ride....before it hits a wall.

level 50 is the max ....and the game would get really boring really fast if you get there in a week or two of playing :P

[Lonedrahon25]

/whooosh!

Im in the favor of spreading real information, not satire that SOMEONE will think is real.

[Deathrydar]

Rumors start quickly, don't they? There is an experience boost on green. That will not longer be in effect when it launches on the 25th and you will begin to know what pain really is!

[Graventhel]

Before this goes any further, many of you need to realize that this is satire. Look at the way it is written.

[Lonedrahon25]

Before this goes any further, many of you need to realize that this is satire. Look at the way it is written.

Read my previous post.

[Sinistria]

I was wandering if will be a tenth, the level gained in that time should be a tenth 2 right?
Can it be that slowly?

[AgentEpilot]

They got bamboozled hard chief.

[Deathrydar]

They got bamboozled hard chief.

I did...

[Graventhel]

Read my previous post.

Except he spreads no misinformation here. He is portraying feigned disbelief.

[Lonedrahon25]

My point was someone will look at that and think it will be a tenth of the original x0 modifier...I know what you're saying here, im a step ahead of that.

[Graventhel]

I know what you're saying here, im a step ahead of that.

Are you sure, because it sounds like you are a step behind and are attempting to "catch up".

[Lonedrahon25]

Mk.

[Jimjam]

Woohooo ....
EQ is so much fun, Green Beta is even far more fun than I remember it !

Level 20 already ! :)

But some wet blanket tried to spoil my fun with this silly talk about an XP reduction to only 10% of current value !

Seriously ?
Would Project1999 really ruin our fun so badly ?
Why would they reduce XP to only a TENTH of current values ?
That is cruel and unusual punishment !

I'm shocked, shocked I say !

I'm finding it really hard to level a melee with the xp bonus; I'm outlevelling mobs I can both survive and get melee skill ups against, which means my skills are too low to be able to fight appropriately leveled mobs!

[Deathrydar]

This thread hurts me.

[Kapyong]

But seriously -

This Beta really is huge fun with the XP bonus, and with a low pop too.

One problem is lack of money - platinum is arriving at one tenth of the normal level rate, so everyone is REALLY broke, and spells are hard to afford.

One the other hand, few spawns are camped so there is lots of options for hunting.

[Lonedrahon25]

Agreed, its fun!

[Fammaden]

I'm finding it really hard to level a melee with the xp bonus; I'm outlevelling mobs I can both survive and get melee skill ups against, which means my skills are too low to be able to fight appropriately leveled mobs!

But seriously -

This Beta really is huge fun with the XP bonus, and with a low pop too.

One problem is lack of money - platinum is arriving at one tenth of the normal level rate, so everyone is REALLY broke, and spells are hard to afford.

One the other hand, few spawns are camped so there is lots of options for hunting.

Its really not very fun for those two reasons to me. You hit a wall pretty fast on either melee or caster unless you get lucky with drops on your caster. Or just farm extra greens to catch up with spell money, but that negates the fun of the faster exp since you are just killing the same stuff for longer after all.

[Kapyong]

Yah, it's definitely "easy mode", and unbalanced.

But I'm older now and more busy, I probably won't be able to sink a lot of time into real EQ, so Beta has become a quick taste of nostalgic fun :)

[uygi]

...that negates the fun of the faster exp since you are just killing the same stuff for longer after all.

Maybe, but with the 10x XP rate you’re killing those mobs a lot faster and overall less than you would having to actually XP off of them without a bonus.

I get what you’re saying, but... don’t know how to help you. Maybe die a bunch to lose XP so your cash on hand is more aligned to your lvl?

[Kapyong]

The fast-levellers are already at 50 (magic users, now anon.)

The main bunch is around 15-25 or so.

[Fammaden]

I get what you’re saying, but... don’t know how to help you. Maybe die a bunch to lose XP so your cash on hand is more aligned to your lvl?

I'll just wait til the actual launch to play seriously, I mostly screw around in newbie zones, I have one level 16 as my highest in beta. Cheers to all those level 40+ people if they are having fun and planning their assault on their goals but for me its not that enjoyable when the xp rate is so out of tune from the rest of the game's progression curve.

[Coridan]

The fast-levellers are already at 50 (magic users, now anon.)

The main bunch is around 15-25 or so.

Like my first two months in live back in June 99 my highest is about 8 and I have 7 othercharacters between 1 and 6 lol

[Lonedrahon25]

Like my first two months in live back in June 99 my highest is about 8 and I have 7 othercharacters between 1 and 6 lol

I used to be an Alt-O'Holic myself lol. I know the feeling.

[Kapyong]

Wow,
the top of the main bunch of characters is hitting level 40 now,
many in their 30s.

[GhostCow]

I saw a level 49 Bard earlier

[GnomeCaptain]

Troll OP trying too hard.

[Kapyong]

Unfriendly child trying to look cool by rudely putting someone down.