I do hope they dont do this often.

just like i hope they do a good job while adding these , for now i have my questions , lets see how this actually work tomorrow.

Every 6 months is ludicrous!

Worthwhile content can't be created that quickly and after a couple of years or so new players will be entirely unable to 'catch up' without some sort of artificial help, such as 'rested XP', which will cleary cause outrage in many of those who think being at level cap is something you need to 'work at'.

There's no NEED to raise the cap at all, FFXI for years had a cap of 75 yet character progression continued by other means.

It look like ESO veteran levels work more like gear levels than normal levels.
Main effect of higher veteran levels is that you can wear better gear and get the soft caps raised.

In short we will not get better gear without higher VR levels.
Sideways expansion will be new sets and new skill lines.

Main problem is lack of ways to level from VR1 to VR10 outside of quests and grinding.

Because this is a "skill based game", there really is no need to raise the level.

They can add more places to explore and add new skill lines to the game. No need to have us keep leveling.

I hope one day a MMO will learn that we really do not need to level. There are other things they can do to make us feel great about our characters.

Voted never again because there was no at every expansion (note not content updates, proper expansions)

david271749 wrote: »

There is no way to tell how often they will increase level caps or how many levels they will add with each increase. The first was ten levels. The second appears to be two levels. Some say the next will be three levels. Let's go by increments of ten.

There was no option to put "when Zenimax believes its time for one, because it goes well with their plan of the game".

We know get a raid zone. A new zone thats VERY hard. A slight raise in VETERAN levels (not level 51). Seams fine to me.

So far I am very happy with how Zenimax shown how they take care of the game, how they work with it, LISTEN to their player base and they have a long term plan.

Even if some people here think I am full of ...junk...I speak from experience playing everquest from start to the highpoint. Everquest did almost a perfect job in expanding levels, AA, new zones, new raids, new content when it was time too.

Zenimax seams to have learned a thing or two from the EQ team :-)

I just sit back, enjoy the ride, play the game and annoy @Nox_Aeterna

david271749 wrote: »

Blackwidow wrote: »

Because this is a "skill based game", there really is no need to raise the level.

They can add more places to explore and add new skill lines to the game. No need to have us keep leveling.

I hope one day a MMO will learn that we really do not need to level. There are other things they can do to make us feel great about our characters.

Love this.

Same

10 levels per 6 months.
That's an increase of basically 1.6 lvl per month.
Considered they said they plan on releasing "fresh content" every 4-6 weeks, I think it's manageable.

I think every 6 months is reasonable. Only for the simple fact that once some players hit the lvl cap it might get boring for them. New gear and possibly a new area every 6 months is do-able and it will keep people active and give us something to look forward to. I also think that an increase of only maybe 3 levels is sufficient. I don't think an additional 10 lvls is good unless the amount of xp required to reach the next level is very high.

Someone mentioned that increasing the lvl cap hurts new players. I really don't see how it could hurt them. It is the same to a new player coming in at lvl 1 and working towards VR10 as it would be working towards say VR15.

For now because the game is so new anyway an increase to the lvl cap wouldn't be a good decision. They need to wait at least a year before the first jump.

Finally I think the soft cap should be removed. I think the entire attributes category needs to be revamped.

I've heard they've already planned on adding three more VR levels within a month.