Hello guys,
playing true the vet ranks made me think about the impact the vet ranks actually have in the long run PVE wise in this game for new players that will join the game after few months.
So basically 1 vet rank equals 10lvl's. Atm it goes up to vet10 = lvl 150.
Next month Craglorn will be released with a increase of the vet cap to vet12 = lvl 170.
Now imagine players joining the game after 6 month's, and there is a vet rank 18 = lvl 230. I don't see the fun for those players to actually have the nerfs to take on the grind to that lvl. It don't encourages players even trying, because they know it is a long long way to go to reach that lvl to play content together with there friends like dungeons and raids, 4 man content. Most players don't have that much time to play and it will take them forever to reach that cap, but by that time they will quit the game because it is just a long grind, way to much.
PVE progression should be hit max lvl, enjoy the beautiful dungeons and not restrictions on vet ranks like atm and the gear that drops there. It only make's those lower vet dungeon's a 1 time experience before players move on. Players wane play with friends, to gear up for the raids and play some nice challenging raid content together, that is the final goal for every pve player.
For those that ask and what about quest? well i think players have seen enough of them from lvl 1 to 50 and vet1 to vet12 by that time craglorn hits. And Endgame is not about just doing quest and having a blast to have a repeatable felling all the time. Endgame is all about challenging dungeon's and hard trails/raid that keeps players interested, that only matters.
PVP wise i totally see vet ranks fit into the game some kind old school rank system that wow had back in vanilla if i may say it like this. Because it is kinda like that, if u think about it. It rewards u for the grind to max vet rank, has some feeling that u achieved finally something.
This is not a flame war, just some things that i think more players will realize sooner or later also.
What do u think about it? and should zanimax change some thing regarding those Vet ranks for PVE?