Naoki Yoshida's Comment in Regard to Jump Potions/Boost Potions

[Melchkt]

Has the team considered how being able to level alts so quickly would affect the specialist system?

Powerleveling your crafters is relatively easy provided you have the gil, and now with the hurdles of reaching Idyllshire (or whatever the next hub city happens to be) removed, it'll just become commonplace for players to create alts for other specialists.

Mind you, that already happens even today. Content skip potions will just make it easier.

[SendohJin]

Because Data provided by YoshiP already shows 30% of new players in China/Korea buy them. So it safe to assume a 15-20% in west markets will buy them.

when 1 out of 5 people becomes everyone, you know you have someone that doesn't understand facts.

[LisannaTargaryen]

the potion removes the gates. the dev time for it otherwise is impractical.
I think you're the only one who knows making 1 item takes the same amount of resources as editing 2 expansions worth of main story quests.

Never stated it takes the same amount. But instead of asking to fix the leveling experience we applaud them for being lazy.

[Velthice]

I am beyond excited for this! Also to all the doomsayers:

[LisannaTargaryen]

Has the team considered how being able to level alts so quickly would affect the specialist system?

Powerleveling your crafters is relatively easy provided you have the gil, and now with the hurdles of reaching Idyllshire (or whatever the next hub city happens to be) removed, it'll just become commonplace for players to create alts for other specialists.

Mind you, that already happens even today. Content skip potions will just make it easier.

At least they didnt say anything about boosting crafters. So that front is safe and rewards players who put time on it.

[SendohJin]

Never stated it takes the same amount. But instead of asking to fix the leveling experience we applaud them for being lazy.

They're not lazy, every minute that they are not rewriting a quest i already did they can be writing a new quest i have yet to do.

if you want to pay for them to rewrite the whole game start a gofundme and pay for it yourself, leave my sub fee alone.

[PeekayTom]

That's the thing WoW is not only WoD or Legion. 10 years full worth of content getting skipped cause of bad design practices. When ARR launched Yoshi said they wanted to fix past mistakes. And they fixing them. HW is much more concise experience with not a lot of Fat. For that reason idm skipping ARR all together. But they should go back and fix ARR questline. Make most of the quests optional and boost the exp gain. The 46-50 pain is real.

see how the community feels even 2 years after.

I can agree to that last couple of sentences, but I don't see why another option altogether is a bad idea.

[8bitbadguy]

I like it and I'm gonna buy it!

[jazzcatte]

Jump potions will be a good and timely addition to the game. It would be cool if there was also a tutorial of some sort to familiarize new players with their class at level 60, but regardless I'm glad they're being added. I'm looking forward to friends being able to catch up to all of us at endgame without spending months working through the 2.0 story.

[PeekayTom]

Jump potions will be a good and timely addition to the game. It would be cool if there was also a tutorial of some sort to familiarize new players with their class at level 60, but regardless I'm glad they're being added. I'm looking forward to friends being able to catch up to all of us at endgame without spending months working through the 2.0 story.

Updating the Smith with a level 50/60 version of your class seems good. Like, a tutorial dungeon that's completely optional. Could also give Mentors a bonus for running that dungeon, helping people figure out their classes.