I wanted to open up some discussion into a controversial concept: maybe starting new players at a higher level.
A couple of days ago, I created an untwinked cleric to see what leveling up was like since the last time I leveled up was in 1945, shortly after the cessation of hostilities with Nwaij.
So far, (lv 23), I have run into only one opportunity to group with anybody else and they didn't want to group with me. I have made my way mostly by clumsy soloing and through the charity of high end xp groups allowing me to leech off of their xp. It's nice to level up, but this experience is very little fun, and the only way I can keep going doing it is because I know that there is the 65 experience waiting at the end.
If you are a new player, and faced with this mountain of leveling alone, I don't know how you're supposed to do it. Yes, the quests are better than ever and there are more newbie things to do, but you are doing them all alone, or with a box (which would have been a good idea in retrospect but alas). I don't like boxing anyway and trouble with zoning made me decide not to at the time.
My proposal? An option to start newer players at a higher level. Level 50 maybe? lv 55?
Would starting at a higher level trivialize a lot of lower level content? Sure. But effectively this content can't be done on tier anyway because there is nobody to do it with. :'(
A couple of days ago, I created an untwinked cleric to see what leveling up was like since the last time I leveled up was in 1945, shortly after the cessation of hostilities with Nwaij.
So far, (lv 23), I have run into only one opportunity to group with anybody else and they didn't want to group with me. I have made my way mostly by clumsy soloing and through the charity of high end xp groups allowing me to leech off of their xp. It's nice to level up, but this experience is very little fun, and the only way I can keep going doing it is because I know that there is the 65 experience waiting at the end.
If you are a new player, and faced with this mountain of leveling alone, I don't know how you're supposed to do it. Yes, the quests are better than ever and there are more newbie things to do, but you are doing them all alone, or with a box (which would have been a good idea in retrospect but alas). I don't like boxing anyway and trouble with zoning made me decide not to at the time.
My proposal? An option to start newer players at a higher level. Level 50 maybe? lv 55?
Would starting at a higher level trivialize a lot of lower level content? Sure. But effectively this content can't be done on tier anyway because there is nobody to do it with. :'(