"Unfortunately, players who think they're hardcore already want to bypass the hand-holding early stages of the game to get to the deeper content immediately."
Why not allow players who wish to bypass the early stage the opportunity to purchase a max level character (With weak gear for that level)?
Blizz did something similar when they introduced the Death knights. You had to have a max toon, then get to start at level 60. The mistake they made was they should have let all classes start at 60 if you already had a max level toon, because Death knights glutted up the 60-80 level instances.
I enjoyed the attunements in TBC. The one thing I would improve on is to make the attunements good for the entire account after you run them once. Nothing sucks more than trying to grind a few ALTS thru the same long quests just so you have some back-up toons for Raid nights
Also, a good attunement quest line would also help improve your gear. Rep grinding is a horrible method of attuning, escpecially if it involves redo the same 5 quests for 27 straight days.
Should blizzard sell gold for RL currency? How about $5 to get exalted with a faction? $35 to start with a max level toon? $20 for a raid set thats -1 tier of current content? $30 for top tier PvP set? $10 to instant max a profession?
Lets just say the officers slow down their progression to let this individual 'Catch-up' with the rest of the group. What's to stop this player from taking another 'Break'??
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Oct 13th 2011 10:56AM (Massively)Why not allow players who wish to bypass the early stage the opportunity to purchase a max level character (With weak gear for that level)?
Blizz did something similar when they introduced the Death knights. You had to have a max toon, then get to start at level 60. The mistake they made was they should have let all classes start at 60 if you already had a max level toon, because Death knights glutted up the 60-80 level instances.
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Sep 26th 2011 10:03AM (Massively)Also, a good attunement quest line would also help improve your gear. Rep grinding is a horrible method of attuning, escpecially if it involves redo the same 5 quests for 27 straight days.
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Jul 1st 2011 11:26AM (WoW)Should blizzard sell gold for RL currency?
How about $5 to get exalted with a faction?
$35 to start with a max level toon?
$20 for a raid set thats -1 tier of current content?
$30 for top tier PvP set?
$10 to instant max a profession?
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