Expansions: Do We Really Need 10 Levels (vs. 5)

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Personally I like 10 levels. WoW tried to do xpacs with only 5 levels and it just felt so unsatisfying. I WANT it to take some time to get to max level. I WANT to feel like there's a sense of distance between where I am and where I'm going.

[Zephanoa]

Currently we have a structure that is vertical so it makes sense that we have levels. 5 or 10 levels? Doesn't particularly matter really to me. I can see though where it would make sense to just do 5 levels instead, especially since we -usually- don't get a new skill/trait at every level. Its bloat and meaningless bloat at that, I think if we wanted more levels we would want to space out the capability of getting levels with like... each patch? A good example would be like to at 5.0 71-72, 5.1 72-74, 5.3 74-76, 5.4, 76-78, and 5.6 78-80. I think instead of going vertical or horizontal, why not both?

[Blanchimont]

10 levels with each would just be consistent. If they chose that for the first, that should be the same for all. The problem that I foresee is that like with other games, the expansions are going to make the exp curve get out of hand since 50 to 60 took as long as 1 to 50. It was quite a grind from 58 to 60 for my Monk compared to the dungeon grinding that I could do with my Paladin and White Mage. I'm just worried that 60 to 70 is going to take as long as 1 to 60. If it is, then we are going to be in for a grindfest.

[Maero]

10 is fine we need some sort of grind before people start saying they are bored i guess?

[Jeatac]

I was hoping for 20 levels!

[Xenos88]

Id say go for another 50 lol

[Saerydoth]

It should ALWAYS be 10 levels per expansion, as long as they are adding levels. Blizzard tried the 5 levels per expansion for a few years with WOW and it was a miserable failure, really messed up 2 expansions.

[Makeda]

Guild Wars did it best.

No levels. No gear power creep.

Just more story and content.

The game has other problems - but it does this part right.