Thread: 3.0 & Weapons / Armor.

Originally Posted by Meier

Whatever it may be, I hope they stick to what they said, not raising the ilvl and giving us some horizontal progression instead.

Where did SE say that? Just wondering as never saw em say anything about horizontel progression. Only thing I remember is they said about slowing down the power creep with ilvls, not stopping it.

For progression in the expansion:

If they make the content in the expnsion for levelling require 120ish ilvl then it would make it double difficult for new players or those who decide to switch or just level up the new jobs. Which would be discouraging for new players and leave a negative impression.

If they make it so a fresh 50 can level up without gearing then its made less than trivial for those who did.

Only way around it, in my opinion, is to make 51-52ish mobs scale slightly from level 50 mobs, while having easily obtainable gear to equal ilvl 120ish then push the mob difficulty higher with lvl 53+ mobs to give a slight challenge to everyone equally. (We all know they wont make things too challenging:P ).

In other words, first couple of levels into the xpac are to get everyone geared up equally. Which will probs be a combination of quest rewards, dungeon drops and crafted items.