Thoughts on Isgard Lockout.

[Hiruke]

In which case all will be good! They just need to make the leveling transition from 50 to 51 smooth. Right now about a third of the quests are at 50. They need to continue to allow people to level past 50, otherwise they will piss people off if they get stuck at 50 and have to do 30 more quests to continue to gain xp.

What? You don't need to finish the 2.55 story to level past level 50. Once the xpac is released, you can level past 50, period. (Whether or not you need the xpac, I'm not sure, I didn't pay THAT close attention to the wording... but it was explicitly said you don't need to do any quests or anything special to continue to accumulate xp once the xpac is out.)

Long story short, all those level 50 quests will end up being really good, assuming they add an xp reward to them.

[Rendecrow]

What? You don't need to finish the 2.55 story to level past level 50. Once the xpac is released, you can level past 50, period.

Good! I'm glad that you can continue to level past 50 without having 2.55 done! (can continue past 50 but cant go in the new areas). I was not sure about that, but now that you explained how they are doing it, it seems they are taking a step in the right direction!

That being said, I've never heard of an MMO expansion being gated behind a 250+ quest chain before! O.o I understand building off of the previous content and keeping it relevant, but there will be a lot of new players with the expansion, and I get the feeling that they may feel a bit annoyed at the quest line. You reach 50, but then can't go to the new areas and got to keep running around the "old world" for a week could really burn some people out.

[LunaHoshino]

That being said, I've never heard of an MMO expansion being gated behind a 250+ quest chain before! O.o I understand building off of the previous content and keeping it relevant, but there will be a lot of new players with the expansion, and I get the feeling that they may feel a bit annoyed at the quest line. You reach 50, but then can't go to the new areas and got to keep running around the "old world" for a week could really burn some people out.

The 2.1-2.55 storyline is still new to those players, though. Yeah, it's old content for us, but I don't really see how they would get burned out on something that is still new and exciting for them.

[Rendecrow]

The 2.1-2.55 storyline is still new to those players, though. Yeah, it's old content for us, but I don't really see how they would get burned out on something that is still new and exciting for them.

It's because I think most new players will want to get to level 51+ zones and will feel awkward when they are level 52 to 54 and still running around level 50 zones. I've seen it in WoW tons of times, new players always want to go for the higher level zones even when there is still quests and content that they have not seen in a lower level zone. These players may feel "trapped" in the old world and this could discourage them from continuing to play the game.

[SDaemon]

It's because I think most new players will want to get to level 51+ zones and will feel awkward when they are level 52 to 54 and still running around level 50 zones. I've seen it in WoW tons of times, new players always want to go for the higher level zones even when there is still quests and content that they have not seen in a lower level zone. These players may feel "trapped" in the old world and this could discourage them from continuing to play the game.

Why? level 50 players currently run through every low level zone in the game, for a myriad of reasons. New players would be doing very quick and easy quests in between dungeon and trial queues as they progress through the story. Also the Astral quests only number like 100-ish. Large portion of which are redundant dialogue quests that take a minute or two.