SR Sunday 2/18 Mana Tombs

[LochnarITB]

My point was that they allowed leveling to happen too fast. They gave too much xp per quest. It is not about choosing one path or another. That still would have happened. The problem is that a part of the populace rushed to 70, purposely skipping a great deal of content. Those people then put pressure on other players to rush to 70. The pressure is both direct - "you're still in terokkar?" "you're only 63" - or indirect in that end content will be exposed to them, before they wanted, by good meaning, unthinking guild mates and friends gushing over the coolness they are seeing (and "don't listen" is not an answer and can't be done in anything but pure solo isolation). It would have been better to lower experience and slow the leveling, with progressive levels of raiding along the way for those that don't care for solo questing. It just strikes me as a gaming version of "instant gratification" rather than "appreciating what you earn". YMMV.

[edit] strikes me

[edit2] Today was an example of accelerated leveling for Lochnar. I was somewhere near 100k to go to 70. A group of us did Ring of Blood(iirc). Some of us then ran off to finish a couple group quests I had. I mentioed in chat that I would probably ding sometime today. As I was typing it, I looked at the display and saw that I had only 3k to go and that I would ding with the next turnin. I was shocked at how much xp I had received in the Ring of Blood.

[edit3 sigh] I looked