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Originally Posted by Daldaen
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Still randomly play. Don't have latest expansion.
Auto-granting was necessary to smooth the progression to the current game. Grinding those first 6,000 AAs was just a hugely tedious aspect of getting to experience the "end-game", and probably 50-75% of those AA lines are necessary to function for your classes purpose. Especially considering there are another 8,000 AAs you need to grind out.
Yea, it was rough for the people who had come back recently and were regrinding AAs but... it was the best decision they could do to encourage new players to actually join the game and create a character to reasonably get to the current content in non-neckbeard amounts of time.
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Autogranting only goes up to 85. And it only applies whne you're subbed. Now, I was playing when it went live. I understand exactly WHY they did it, as you state above, but I don't necessarily agree it's the ONLY way to do it. The point where I think I disagree is AUTO-granting. The problem with autogranting is the player might not be as familiar with the AA's, since they're auto-granted. This is a problem because some of the AA's are castable abilities or effects or special innates. If a player researches the AA's then this isn't a problem, but if they don't then it's. I imagine it's not a problme at first, but if a player levels up really fast, they're going to have a mountain of AA's they're not using effectively. The problem is there're so many AA's. In hte past, AA's were introduced much more slowly because leveling up was a slow process capped by expansion releases. This allowed players to really dig deep into them. My concern is those AA's won't get used by new players at times when they absolutely need to know how to use them.
Another thing is, if this hasn't already been done, why's there no way to list AA's according to whether they have a hotkey? I remember asking this question back when I was playing. I never checked for any replies. I'm unsure if there's any ability to do that now.