Will 8.0 Expansion Cap @ L55 ?

[Daralii]

I've never played WoW, so what does level squish actually do?

Reduced the number by your character's portrait, but because things related to mob levels or stats got missed (because attempting to change every number in an MMO is a large undertaking), entire expansions got bricked because some mobs that were the objectives of unskippable quests became unkillably strong.

[MayuAmakura]

You do know that nothing will happen? It's way too much for them to change their formula. Level squish would mean that they have to redo every boss, dungeon mob and stats for everyone which isn't simple. Doing just "cut 50% for everything" won't make it right due to some abilities and things scaling differently. For YoshiP and their team this would be "huge" job. So no we will just see 110 level instead. They haven't changed anything with every new expansion.

[Veritas-Ancora]

You do know that nothing will happen? It's way too much for them to change their formula. Level squish would mean that they have to redo every boss, dungeon mob and stats for everyone which isn't simple. Doing just "cut 50% for everything" won't make it right due to some abilities and things scaling differently. For YoshiP and their team this would be "huge" job. So no we will just see 110 level instead. They haven't changed anything with every new expansion.

Yeah but Yoshi P even said there was a problem with the trajectory that is happening and that some form of rework needs to happen to keep the game relevant and appealing to users.

He even suggested that there was "A Realm Reborn" level of work, so that could mean rewiring the game in new ways that doesn't equate to L110.

[Derio]

Honestly there should be another stat squish and the next expansion level cap should be 50. However I'm not sure they will do that because they made such a big deal of lvl 100 being a big milestone for the game.

[Asari5]

maybe they should make a new level scale for 'chapter 2' of the story where we all start at lvl 1 again. as a universal new starting point. new players wouldnt have to play the whole chapter 1 (2.0-6.55) leaving it as optional content.

that would lead to a lot of questions needing a solution though xD.

[DPZ2]

I wonder why so many are fixated on "level numbers". It doesn't make the leveling experience faster.

Consider that each expansion should provide as much time for completion as a normally priced AAA game. I've seen estimates that run anywhere from 45 hours for Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 to 103 hours for Witcher 3. [Here's a typical article from The Gamer for RPG completion times: https://www.thegamer.com/longest-rpgs-ever-made/

Estimates for completion of the MSQ for each expansion of Final Fantasy XIV run around the low end (40-50 hours) without doing anything extra.

Does it really matter if you're rising 10 levels in an expansion, or 5 levels, if the amount of time to completion remains the same?

[Veritas-Ancora]

maybe they should make a new level scale for 'chapter 2' of the story where we all start at lvl 1 again. as a universal new starting point. new players wouldnt have to play the whole chapter 1 (2.0-6.55) leaving it as optional content.

that would lead to a lot of questions needing a solution though xD.

I would like that, honestly. Take us to a new expansion where we have to re-level up to L50. But if you're going to do that, make the AoEs available at a lower level than 30+. It's really problematic that we don't have an AoE for dungeons at any of the lower levels.