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High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:08 pm
by Ryme
I've been hesitant to bring this up too early, but I do want to give intermittent players and transmoggers a bit of warning, in case you're interested. Sometime in May we'll be coming out with content geared to high-level characters. I wouldn't call it expansive, but there will be a handful of zones at varying levels (no catchphrases! please!), starting as low as 30-ish and going up to 70-ish. This is all "optional" material as far as ascension/retcon will be concerned, but I figure right now before retcon is implemented is when we've got the greatest proportion of high-level players, and I wanted to throw some challenging fights and some powerful collectible gear your way while so many players are up there.

Sorry I can't be very definite about the release date at this point, but I wanted to give everyone a week or two or three in warning in case they'd want to level up a bit in anticipation. On the other hand, if transmogging is your thing, most of the high-level content won't be applicable to the quest-centric levels (up to 10 or 15 or wherever it ends up), so don't feel compelled to break from your routine if you're having fun. This stuff will be around for a while.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:11 pm
by zillow
I am excited!

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:12 pm
by the SUPERnaturalist
irk! must speedlevel!

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:24 pm
by Harry Dresden
Hmmm...guess I'll put of the transmogging for a while. Glad the heads up didn't come a week later. :)

Can't wait to see what you come up with Ryme. Is Cris working on the writing again for some of this?

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:05 pm
by the SUPERnaturalist
it's gonna be so uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuber....

/twitch in excitement


/prolongs suicide (<- jk)

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:08 pm
by the SUPERnaturalist
Ryme wrote:I've been hesitant to bring this up too early, but I do want to give intermittent players and transmoggers a bit of warning, in case you're interested. Sometime in May we'll be coming out with content geared to high-level characters. I wouldn't call it expansive, but there will be a handful of zones at varying levels (no catchphrases! please!), starting as low as 30-ish and going up to 70-ish. This is all "optional" material as far as ascension/retcon will be concerned, but I figure right now before retcon is implemented is when we've got the greatest proportion of high-level players, and I wanted to throw some challenging fights and some powerful collectible gear your way while so many players are up there.

Sorry I can't be very definite about the release date at this point, but I wanted to give everyone a week or two or three in warning in case they'd want to level up a bit in anticipation. On the other hand, if transmogging is your thing, most of the high-level content won't be applicable to the quest-centric levels (up to 10 or 15 or wherever it ends up), so don't feel compelled to break from your routine if you're having fun. This stuff will be around for a while.
OMG! that means more than 2! maybe even 3!
>spasgasm<

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:17 pm
by Olaf
It really depends on whose hands we're talking about, and how big the things being held are, doesn't it?
A handful of basketballs is only 1.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:39 pm
by Satan
You must have small hands. Everyone else can hold /3/ basketballs! >.>

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:53 pm
by Jesus
I'm all jazzed because I'm level 70-ish.

More with the -ish, because now I'm motivated to get the logos rather than just sit on the levels.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:31 pm
by Muhandes
Great news, really looking forward to it.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:28 am
by darkzumi
Awesome, Ryme! I can't wait for it!!!

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:30 am
by Strlikecrazy
Awesome news! Now have a purpose and a reason not to go back to transmogging! :D

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:21 am
by Hannahmaus
Yay, so looking forward to it! :)

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:19 am
by Corrupt Shadow
Ryme wrote:... I wanted to throw some ... powerful collectible gear your way ...
Oooooh, better than IotM gear? Hahaha! In my dreams.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:39 pm
by MagiNinjA
That's really stupid to say, considering Cris tested it.

I don't think he's saying that it's only 30-70, but rather, it's better to be in that range for these quests.

Not to mention that powerlevellers DON'T make up the majority of the playerbase, I'm quite sure.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:52 pm
by Satan
I think the level 70-ish should be decently hard even for us that are 'up there', and remember, there are epic items to be had from the zones, so it's not a complete waste.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:01 pm
by Ryme
Kirbytheslayer wrote:Figures.
You'll give Quests to the low-level players, and the players levels 30-70, but you forget about us high-level players.
What're we supposed to do if we're level 95+?
Go ahead and do the high-but-not-quite-your-level-of-highness stuff. The things there still ought to be beneficial to you. At least one of the zones ought to remain a challenge.

Also, just so you know, there was some push for things to go even higher, but when I checked the stats there weren't all that many people even at level 70. At the time we first checked there were all of 4 people over level 100, and maybe 2% of the players had enough XP to hit level 70. I don't mind developing stuff that will appeal to niche players, but there's "niche" (a couple percent, and several percent more that can get there once they have a reason) and there's "niche" (all ten of you now).

I can't tell you how much I appreciate players dedicated enough to play to level 100 or anywhere close, but developing for that level is developing at the expense of everyone else, which is nearly every player of the game.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:57 pm
by Cristiona
Kirbytheslayer wrote:You'll give Quests to the low-level players, and the players levels 30-70, but you forget about us high-level players.
Don't underestimate how things swing at high levels. Remember: the castle is level 15, but level 50 characters can still get rocked there. I wager a level 100 character could still get their ass kicked in a level 70 zone.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:10 pm
by Jesus
Kirbytheslayer wrote:What're we supposed to do if we're level 95+?
Be on a leaderboard, of course.

Or two, in your case (:

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:19 am
by Lxndr
Heh. I finally transmogrified two weeks ago. I'm still level 11. I was 73 before.

Oh well. I'll get there eventually.

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:51 pm
by neocamp22
The question is, should I powerlevel to get back onto the leaderboard in time for the high end content? >.>

Re: High-level content coming soon-ish?

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:43 pm
by MagiNinjA
If you really want to gun for the glorious XP board that everyone admires and praises, then sure.

Otherwise, I find no point.