Alternate Advancement: Good or Bad?

[Branaddar]

Yeah the only way I could see them not bleeding a lot of players is if there's an added bonus to the rollback somehow. Like you keep all your gear/skills or something. I dunno :P

[Alleusion]

It's part of the reason I just can't get into EQLive anymore. Knowing that even when I hit the next level cap, there's still 1000+ more AA I need to earn in order to be on par with the people that didn't quit playing.

My problem is that I found that as soon as I reached the level cap and got near the number of AA's I needed, they raised the cap again. It was a viscious cycle. IDK, maybe I'm in a minority, but I actually liked Luclin. *ducks*

[holkan]

While I can understand people not liking aa's because of their abilities or even because they were released in an expansion they dont like. Saying you dont like them because they're too grindy is LOL this entire game is one huge grind first a level grind then a gear grind.

[Aeolwind]

Originally Posted by holkan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

While I can understand people not liking aa's because of their abilities or even because they were released in an expansion they dont like. Saying you dont like them because they're too grindy is LOL this entire game is one huge grind first a level grind then a gear grind.

I used to have no issues with leveling or XPing or whatever, but after AA made it a necessity I lost all interest in it. You used to have to grind out 10 levels and then relax as you raided & just killed shit. But, when it became expected to be on 16 hours a day, 8 doing AA and 8 raiding, it got old...fast.

[holkan]

Originally Posted by Aeolwind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I used to have no issues with leveling or XPing or whatever, but after AA made it a necessity I lost all interest in it. You used to have to grind out 10 levels and then relax as you raided & just killed shit. But, when it became expected to be on 16 hours a day, 8 doing AA and 8 raiding, it got old...fast.

Thats less to do with aa's and more to do with how fast sony released expansions. Aa's were just something to do when raid targets were dead or you couldnt/wouldnt raid and had the best gear you could get. While requirements for aa's came forth from min maxing just because you had 500 aa's and your friend had 800 aa's didnt mean you couldnt raid or group together unlike being lvl 30 and 50 or what have you.

[Alleusion]

Originally Posted by holkan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thats less to do with aa's and more to do with how fast sony released expansions. Aa's were just something to do when raid targets were dead or you couldnt/wouldnt raid and had the best gear you could get. While requirements for aa's came forth from min maxing just because you had 500 aa's and your friend had 800 aa's didnt mean you couldnt raid or group together unlike being lvl 30 and 50 or what have you.

Oh but sometimes, it did mean exactly that. Certain groups / guilds didn't want someone unless they had X AA skill. If you didn't have it, they could always find someone who did.

[holkan]

Originally Posted by Alleusion [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh but sometimes, it did mean exactly that. Certain groups / guilds didn't want someone unless they had X AA skill. If you didn't have it, they could always find someone who did.

And thats the people not the game. There are some people in this game who wont group with the lower spectrum so they can min max IE a 24 who wont group with an 18 because they wont kill fast enough for his liking etc. Or doesn't want to group cause he doesnt have a gear up to his standard lol. You cant hate the game for that elitist mentality that players bring.

[matahari]

I don't like aa's. That is my opinion.

Plus they came out with luclin obviously.

[Omnimorph]

Well velious will eventually get old, people will leave if they're stuck on the same content for months and months. I don't see a problem with releasing luclin by then. It'll be like what the prog servers should have been like [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Bumamgar]

My dream is that at the appropriate time post-Velious, Luclin will be released, but it will be modified to remove the Nexus spire translocators (keep the nexus portal spells of course for Wiz/Dru), and without the bazaar function.

My greater dream is that at the appropriate time post-Luclin, PoP will be released, but it will be modified to remove all PoK books/portals (other than the PoK port spell for Wiz/Dru, and the portal to PoTranq).

My ultimate all time dream is that at the appropriate time post-PoP, Gates will be released, but it will be modified to remove all instancing. All the previously instanced zones would be converted to static zones (including Tipt, Uquaa, etc).

My dreams don't include LoY or LDoN, but if they did, clearly they would be un-instanced versions of said expansions.

Realistic? Probably not... but a man can dream!