Level Increase?Follow

I would like to see an increase. Someday I would love to see someone solo Mata Muram and live to tell about it >=) Ok that's asking for too much but by raising level cap, some smaller guild may be able to handle more of higher level mob without depending on high end guild.

However instead of level cap increase, why not add a new race and/or class? I'd like to try for a Froglok Beastlord and a Gnome Monk =)

I think the reason new expansions seem geared to higher levels, is that Sony is afraid that without ever increasing level possibilities, that the high end players will get bored and drop out. Oops, there go the profits. Never forget, Sony is in this for the money, not for any altruistic reasons. In any business model, you need to retain your existing clients, but to increase profits, you also need to attract new ones.
In the long run, I think the current approach is short sighted. I certainly enjoy the game, but am I going to play it for 20 years? Sooner or later, my mouse finger will develop arthritis.... They need to either attract new customers, or give high end players a reason to retire their characters and start new ones.

Depending on a high end guild? How so?

Would need to also make new zones with mobs lvl 75-85, just to keep raid guilds satisfied, as well as creating new AA skills and spells that are actually worth the subsequent difficulty of attainment that would have to be placed on them to satisfy raid toons.

I would rather see some actual creativity in the storyline, the FV war and the Troll/Froglock war was cool but not signifigant enough for everyone to want or be able to get envovled.

I would like to see a new playable race or two (Dragorn, Shissar, or another race already in existance) and a new class or two. Not hybrids or copies of the older classes, but truely original classes created through an event in the storyline.

The addition of content that makes religion important, (i.e. an deity related epic piece of armor maybe)

All of us want the graphics, pathing, spawn rates, and challenge of old world zones to be upgraded so lvl's 1-60 aren't so boring. Would also like the drops of old world named and raid mobs to be on par with the difficulty rate.

Instanced raid areas and zones so guilds don't have to share raid mobs with other guilds, just put those raid encounters on a mm type timer to simulate a respawn for all participants..

well i dont really care to see the level increast to 75. i would much rather see more content for toons 30-60. i have a 70 shammy and 5 other toons from 40-55 but in less u box or have a high end toon hard to find a grp most times now days. i understand that sony has to do things to keep high level players interested but does that mean they should forget about lower level toons? you figure most lower level toons have a high level main anyway just my 2 cents.

Warning: heresy to be stated.

-Have the boldness and vision to actually retire things in context with storyline. Eliminate races and classes. Certain expansions could see thier continent sunk (or moon blown up) and not truly hurt the game. Take quests and drops out of the game...

Oh no I cant kill Seru... too bad. He is gone (as an example).

BUT, provide new things to forward the game and storyline.

Warning: deeper heresy.

Rethink the level layout of the continents. Pok gone. Lowbies play on Antonica. Quests let you get further. Iksar start as hated exiles... they need to xp and quest just to get back to Kunark. Use the keyring feature and add stategic maguses to it...

Make Odus the locked-out area... no one over specific levels in specific zones. This caters to the casual player.

Make Legacy of Ykesha zones the mad xp place. This is for the powergamers and PLers.

Make Velious and Kunark the quest & tradeskill intense places (and move the abyssmal sea boat to one of the docks).

Make Lost dungeons the loot and spell quest route... but put lots of spells on the vendors as an alternative to the impossible (for the casual player) raids some of the older spells are now on.

Planes of Power gets redone to encompass all the other expansions. Keep some as all access traditional. Recognize the flagging that has been done but set up a new flagging system of individual tasks for each tier of plane. Go nuts and make the zones insane. Provide an open (with flag) version of each zone and an instanced version --for the high end raiders.

Provide high end instanced versions of all zones (even low ones) for the serious raiders and give a good reason to want to do them.


ERRRRR, maybe just let people take their main to EQ3 with its level scaled into the new game (i.e., level 70=level 25, 69=24.75...) and dont make the mistakes that weren't forseen all those years ago (camping, kill stealing, lfg all the time, the arms race, powerlevelling, etc.)

I don't think we need a level increase. What IMHO is needed is fixing broken quests...ie Grimmling and updating the graphics to the like of Lavastorm. Higher levels mean more grinding and more catering to higher level Guilds. Why would anyone want to start playing a game where all that happens is geared towards the end game? The free taste of EQ was a great idea now if they would just go with that mentality and boost the quality for the lower levels maybe EQ would see an increase in peeps.


Just my 2 cents worht there

increasing the level will just make the casual player even more outcast. as it is you can't get ANYthing in high end without a serious raiding guild. Even the causal guilds sometimes get stuck on content that's "old" increasing levels and even putting out new expansions excludes a LOT of people from the new content and gear and items. I've been disappointed with the rate of expansion release. it's too fast.

Not for a LONG time.. maybe in 2007. I'd rather have some new low and mid level zones that aren't hellishly hard to 1) get to, 2) kill in. Solo/duo zones would be great for the 20s-50s. Fix stuff and upgrade graphics before upping levels. Also... can you PLEASE stop upping the number of different raiding areas. It's hard enough to get into Time without using the alt-access piggy mess, let alone Anguish, Tacvi (or whichever is highest in GoD), and whatever high-end raiding zone DODh came with. We don't need another THEME for a while... just fix/add onto the OLD ones first! You'll keep many more players because we'll be happier with stuff working!

New quests that can be done midlevel without having to go through a zone of all red-con mobs would be great.
New tradeskill quests that don't require a load of hard to get parts if you're not level 70 to farm... and make the quest reward worth it... for lower levels and NON raiders. Something like the Blessed Coldain Prayer Shawl (best quest in the game, imho).
Spells that you don't have to do missions to get... for all levels. Make them purchaseable (with plat not crystals or ldon points).
Have ALL spells (god, omens 69-70, higher-end-PoP, dodh) questable so you don't have to have a super uber guild group in order to get them. I am a PoP raider in a PoP-only focused guild, but the DoDh and omens spells would be useful to me also! I'd like a way to get them - I don't mind if the quest is involved, but make it so I don't need a 12khp tank to get it done. I'd tradeskill (not research, mind you) for a chance at these spells. I can't get my omens 69-70 spells because the mobs are perma camped by guilds and they won't let someone not in their guild who even helps with the kill have a chance at the runes. Give me a way that I don't have to kill those mega-mobs or romp through RSS and MPG getting my butt eaten by ************* mobs. Don't make it like pulling teeth.. make it like getting a dental cleaning.

In all - make all spells attainable for the non-raider. If it weren't for the ego-headed uber raiders always wanting to get everything first, I'd actually enjoy a new expansion and not have to wait until that expansion is a year old to enjoy it.

I'll take more levels if I can have more spell gems for some of the new spells...

I would love to see this. Create a DoN style task that makes an entire zone (including any and all zones and cities) an instance. Then make hardcore raid encounters in them. Wars, tough battles and strategic playing to beat. Can you imagine a raid on Kelethin or an epic battle in the Karanas or the Ros? Give them various difficulty lvls for the casual to hardcore raiders. The loots can be adjusted accordingly and players will get to experience all the old zones. You can even have group tasks this way too.

This would allow SOE to release a new expansion and still upgrade the older content at the same time. Only those who get the new expansion would have access to the quests and instances. This is why SOE doesn't revamp zones as much. It costs them money but they get nothing in return. Making an expansion to do instanced quests in these zones that aren't being used could be a win-win situation.

I liked the Mistmoore revamp because I enjoyed the zone in my lower lvls. However I also missed the lower lvl zone on my alts. So why not make it both? I really like this idea.

I didn't read the entire thread because there are just too many words........but I think it's fair to consider that the reason EQ is still around is due in no small part to the high level players. If the high end wasn't so popular, EQ would have died long ago.

If you don't think there are that many high level players out there, think about this: I checked EQ rankings the other day for level 70 Rangers, just out of curiosity, and found that there are over three thousand of them. Add in the rest of the classes, and you have a hell of a lot of people potentially looking for new goals.