Quest XP nerfed - then add content

[Axeleef]

On friday, after the patch, I actually felt like I was getting somewhere with my 15 Ranger.

As a casualy player, mainly solo-ing, I was struggling to find quests to level. With the XP boost on Friday, I was actually making good progress.

Now its back to travelling all across the map to find quests (my days of grinding / farming XP are long gone).

The trouble is there are two opposing views here and who shouts loudest gets the Sigil ear. Hence the nerf over the weekend.

I think the solution is to ask a player when the character is created whether they want a normal or hard experience. If you choose hard, you get better item rewards and drops but less XP.

[Sheazy]

Originally Posted by Axeleef

On friday, after the patch, I actually felt like I was getting somewhere with my 15 Ranger.

As a casualy player, mainly solo-ing, I was struggling to find quests to level. With the XP boost on Friday, I was actually making good progress.

Now its back to travelling all across the map to find quests (my days of grinding / farming XP are long gone).

The trouble is there are two opposing views here and who shouts loudest gets the Sigil ear. Hence the nerf over the weekend.

I think the solution is to ask a player when the character is created whether they want a normal or hard experience. If you choose hard, you get better item rewards and drops but less XP.

Personally, I thought the XP boost was WAY over the top. I went from just barely into level 18 to almost level 20 in about an hour and a half. That's just too fast imo. That's even faster than WoW. So when they brought it back in line to something more reasonable (again, imo) I was very happy.

That being said, Sigil has said time and time again that the majority of the content in this game is group oriented. That's simply part of their vision of the game and I really hope that doesn't change (yes, I'm part of the camp that believes an online game is best enjoyed by playing it with other people). I do recognize your playstyle is a popular one, but any one game can't be all things to all people. Personally, I think it's time people realized that and stopped asking/demanding/begging for changes in the core ideas behind this game in order that it better suit their particular way of playing. There are plenty of other mmo's that cater completely to the solo/casual playstyle - I hope Vanguard doesn't become one of them.

[TheKnight]

Another patch already? I'll go check it out...

[Sigurd]

No clue what he means because I played only a lowbie for more rose-smelling and did alot of diplo on the weekend.

I just logged in on the other pc and no new client patch, nor announced server one on notes.

Doesn't mean there WASN'T a serverside patch, but just trying to find out what the fuss is about. Personally, for the record, I hate the 'rush to max' and find it limiting. Nor do I want it to be fast to max level, imo (and I know it is just that) 9months to 1 year is great in the first year of the game, maybe going down to 6-9 months in latter without egregious twinking or powerleveling, then of course a speediest of 2-4 months is ok in those cases for new alts if you engage in speeding them through)

[Rithrin]

Quest XP was nerfed? When did this happen? or is this simply just asking for them to turn it down? And no need to get into a discussion about whether it should or not, we have that covered in another thread.

[Sheazy]

Originally Posted by Rithrin

Quest XP was nerfed? When did this happen? or is this simply just asking for them to turn it down? And no need to get into a discussion about whether it should or not, we have that covered in another thread.

In last Thursday's patch, quest xp received a huge increase. People were averaging 2 hours or so per level, even up into the 30s. On Friday there was a dev post over on SV saying that they had increased it more than they intended and had done a serverside patch to reduce it back to where they meant it to go. This was still higher than it originally was, but significantly lower than the brief period of insane quest xp.

[tehgeek]

Seems ok to me at 13. Anyhoo, it's not really a "nerf" if they are fixing something that was higher then intended, and still higher then before the patch only a few day(s) beforehand.

[FEDS-91]

Originally Posted by Axeleef

...Hence the nerf over the weekend...

I wasn't aware of this. To be honest, glad to hear it. Things were overboard.

Originally Posted by Sheazy

Personally, I thought the XP boost was WAY over the top. I went from just barely into level 18 to almost level 20 in about an hour and a half. That's just too fast imo. That's even faster than WoW. So when they brought it back in line to something more reasonable (again, imo) I was very happy.

That being said, Sigil has said time and time again that the majority of the content in this game is group oriented. That's simply part of their vision of the game and I really hope that doesn't change (yes, I'm part of the camp that believes an online game is best enjoyed by playing it with other people). I do recognize your playstyle is a popular one, but any one game can't be all things to all people. Personally, I think it's time people realized that and stopped asking/demanding/begging for changes in the core ideas behind this game in order that it better suit their particular way of playing. There are plenty of other mmo's that cater completely to the solo/casual playstyle - I hope Vanguard doesn't become one of them.

I honestly couldn't have said it any better myself. The highlighted part is really I think something that should be perpetuated by like minded folks.

[FEDS-91]

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[TheKnight]

Crud, I had an opportunity to really level up but I missed it