What is a character boost?

since you ask, I'd say no. Not that I'd have a freak out session if they added it, but it just doesn't really seem necessary. CP's are universal, so once you actually do get there, you're getting cp's for all of your characters on any one that qualifies. Making the distance from 1-50 takes shockingly small amounts of time in my experience, and I'm a long-time casual player (still only at 560 some odd cp's and I've been playing since early access launch)

I mean, sure, they *could* add it, and it's not like it'd break things overmuch, but I still don't think that standard leveling gameplay or acquisition of cp's is hard enough to warrant a character boost like going from 0-110 in WOW or anything similar.

I wouldn't object to it being added, but I think it should only be purchasable if you already have a level 50 character. Not because I think it would be 'pay to win' otherwise, but because I think it would be a bad idea for new players to buy it.

Firstly it could be highly misleading. Selling an item like that gives the impression it's needed, I can imagine some new players would buy it so they can jump straight into the latest content, then find out they could have done that anyway without wasting the extra money.

But we'd also get the exact same problem Guild Wars 2 has as a result of an item like this. There's always topics on their forum from new players who bought the game, used the boost (which in this case comes with the game) and then ran into one of two problems. Either they want to get into end game content but don't have a clue what that is, where to find it or even how to find out, or (worse) they've found their way to max level maps or raids or whatever and can't understand why their awesome new max level character with the impressive looking equipment and skills which came from the boost keeps getting killed by every little thing because they don't have a clue what they're doing and may not even have learned that important abilities like dodging exist.

And I imagine there's many more who don't get as far as asking for help on the forum and just get angry that they've wasted all this money on a stupid game which is impossible to play and quit without ever actually giving it a chance because they skipped absolutely everything which was supposed to help them learn it.

It might work in games where you can expect your equipment to carry you and/or you can simply out-level the content, and where you'll be funnelled into the correct areas for your character, but this is not that game.

PTW

It only takes a few days to get to 50, I see this as pointless. Its the skyshards/lorebooks/psyjiic quests that take the time.

No for several reasons. First of all, for newer players, leveling a character is a good way to learn how to play that class and get a feel for the flavor. But if you already have a lot of max characters and want to speed level a character, then you can already find different ways to make that 1-50 process much faster anyway.

I also think it could open the door for too many 'convenience' crown store purchases that end up putting the game on a P2W path. Because if we get this, people will continue to ask for more booster stuff.

But only unlock the purchase to those CP 160 and higher

absolutely no point to it. leveling is fast anyways, but more importantly - they are going to have to go through all those quests and all those zones regardless becasue bulk of character growth in ESO is not via pure levels but rather through gathering skill points, leveling skill lines, etc.

I'm fine with this so long as it is character level only and you already got another character to 50.

The reality is that there will still be a lot to do to make that character usable for anything apart from doing crafting writs for full 600+ gold.

It could help speed up leveling undaunted since you can do pledges and vet dungeons right away.

It would also be nice to get max level gear from the start.

The leveling rewards aren't valuable enough to care about compared to the crown cost of the level-up.

ruikkarikun wrote: »

Can you tell me why it's bad? Did you know in GW2 those boosters exist and work very well?

I haven’t played GW2 enough to know how tough it is to level from scratch but my first character certainly took longer than getting to 50 in ESO. Here you can get from 0-50 in a few hours which is hardly taxing and you can get your sky shards, mages guild, fighters guild and psijic all at the same time as well - albeit that will take longer than a few hours but nothing too ridiculous.

I disagree with someone who posted above that it’s P2W, It’s not for me as there’s really no benefit in getting to 50 quicker as you will likely end up with a class with not enough skill points to do anything with it and no clue how to play it.

That’s my main issue, people should learn to play their class, enjoy the game and content around them and it will benefit them game more overall.

Adding a boost to a game already this convenient to level would be nothing more than a cash grab

BlazingDynamo wrote: »

You can really tell who played when character cap was v16 and who didn't lol

What's so hard about getting to lvl50 again?

Getting one character to Vet 14 rank then deciding to level another and have to do it ALL again with the so called experience points you got back then was a real grind. What we have now is much better but a walk in the park!

No, because then vet players have no reason to re-run old content, and it makes the starter zones a ghost town. Well, it's not so bad in ESO because most of the grind for skyshards requires going through each zone, but that's generally my opinion for most MMOs.