Scaling mechanics

[HPDelron]

Something to look forward to.

Your "Something to look forward to" is another persons "Disappointing", another person's "Unfair", another person's "Confusing", and yet another persons "Tease".

There are a lot of ways to look at someone else getting cool toys and power you don't, when you're doing the same content at the same level. Some of them positive, the vast majority negative.

What you're saying here isn't "Wrong" in the strictest sense, it's just one very narrow (and my guess is quite uncommon) way people could look at the situation.

People are using jump potions already anyway and not knowing mechanics/classes.

..and? If people are paying more to jump the deep end right off the bat, that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep the shallow end tidy and accessible.

If there was solid data that only small number of players were opting to not use the Jump potions, maybe this point would have more merit. However "Jump Potion 1st Timer" seems more the exception than the rule, and we should hardly be sculpting the game's core teaching tools around that exception.

So long as there is a meaningful number of true sprouts, we should leave these low level experiences intact for them. They should be free to have the same experiences we did. If these folks start to become rare maybe it would be time for the dev team to reconsider the utility it preserving it for them. However we aren't there, we aren't even close.

The game is supposed to be dull to veterans? What?

Not "The Game" generally, but the "Leveling Roulette" specifically? Yes.

It's one piece of optional content with no unique rewards. It is intentionally kept in a state that anyone with even a passing familiarity with the game would know is dull for veterans. It intentionally kept in this state and therefore by definition intentionally kept dull for veterans. It is not kept in this state because "being dull for vets" has value in and of itself but because the other properties of that state have merit. Specifically the preservation of the low level content for newbies.