Perception

Delvie · 06-01-2005, 11:51 PM

Anybody else excited by what's been released about this so far? The idea of learning a new skill from something you're fighting sounds very innovative to me.

I'm thinking that this will have people hunting things at or above their level hoping to learn a skill that is useful to them. Which brings up what does this do to the whole concept of power leveling? Will overpowered critters/NPCs have skills that are perceivable?

Pirotess · 06-02-2005, 10:45 AM

Welcome to the forums Delvie. I'm definitely excited about the perception system. It seems to me that it has the potential to slow down the people that typically insist on racing to the level cap so they can see and experience more of the content developers put so much time and effort into.

As to your powerleveling question, it seems to me that it would result in much the same effect as having your character artificially leveled by a GM. I would think you couldnt perceive or comprehend the skills of drastically higher mobs because your perception skill wouldnt keep pace with your level. You'd technically be LXX but you couldnt hope to ever perform like a LXX that had gotten there on their own. I think its another great example of how the perception system is going to slow people down which is good in my opinion.