Thoughts on Isgard Lockout.

[Rendecrow]

I think the 2.55 lockout is both good and bad.

The good: Most current players will already have the quest chain done or at least finished up to 2.0. It won't be hard to finish the questline, and it is pretty cool that it will continue to follow you all the way to 60.

The bad There are a LOT of quests at level 50. A new player who is leveling would quickly hit a wall of quests and find that they will have to grind countless quests before they can continue to level past 50. Unless they are going to change the level requirements of some of the story quests or let people continue past level 50 without completing 2.55, this will become an issue.

[Dualblade]

The bad There are a LOT of quests at level 50. A new player who is leveling would quickly hit a wall of quests and find that they will have to grind countless quests before they can continue to level past 50. Unless they are going to change the level requirements of some of the story quests or let people continue past level 50 without completing 2.55, this will become an issue.

If I remember correctly there was something about non ilvl synced dungeons having a cut off of lvl 53. I myself have been assuming that players will continue to lvl even between 2.0-2.55 and 53 was where I was thinking ilvl 90 would be...so if its true I can see the future!

[Rendecrow]

If I remember correctly there was something about non ilvl synced dungeons having a cut off of lvl 53. I myself have been assuming that players will continue to lvl even between 2.0-2.55 and 53 was where I was thinking ilvl 90 would be...so if its true I can see the future!

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.

[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.