Alternate Advancement: Good or Bad?

[Aeolwind]

Originally Posted by holkan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

While I can understand people not liking aa's because of their abilities or even because they were released in an expansion they dont like. Saying you dont like them because they're too grindy is LOL this entire game is one huge grind first a level grind then a gear grind.

I used to have no issues with leveling or XPing or whatever, but after AA made it a necessity I lost all interest in it. You used to have to grind out 10 levels and then relax as you raided & just killed shit. But, when it became expected to be on 16 hours a day, 8 doing AA and 8 raiding, it got old...fast.

[holkan]

Originally Posted by Aeolwind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I used to have no issues with leveling or XPing or whatever, but after AA made it a necessity I lost all interest in it. You used to have to grind out 10 levels and then relax as you raided & just killed shit. But, when it became expected to be on 16 hours a day, 8 doing AA and 8 raiding, it got old...fast.

Thats less to do with aa's and more to do with how fast sony released expansions. Aa's were just something to do when raid targets were dead or you couldnt/wouldnt raid and had the best gear you could get. While requirements for aa's came forth from min maxing just because you had 500 aa's and your friend had 800 aa's didnt mean you couldnt raid or group together unlike being lvl 30 and 50 or what have you.

[Alleusion]

Originally Posted by holkan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thats less to do with aa's and more to do with how fast sony released expansions. Aa's were just something to do when raid targets were dead or you couldnt/wouldnt raid and had the best gear you could get. While requirements for aa's came forth from min maxing just because you had 500 aa's and your friend had 800 aa's didnt mean you couldnt raid or group together unlike being lvl 30 and 50 or what have you.

Oh but sometimes, it did mean exactly that. Certain groups / guilds didn't want someone unless they had X AA skill. If you didn't have it, they could always find someone who did.

[holkan]

Originally Posted by Alleusion [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh but sometimes, it did mean exactly that. Certain groups / guilds didn't want someone unless they had X AA skill. If you didn't have it, they could always find someone who did.

And thats the people not the game. There are some people in this game who wont group with the lower spectrum so they can min max IE a 24 who wont group with an 18 because they wont kill fast enough for his liking etc. Or doesn't want to group cause he doesnt have a gear up to his standard lol. You cant hate the game for that elitist mentality that players bring.

[Randiesel]

Originally Posted by Aeolwind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I used to have no issues with leveling or XPing or whatever, but after AA made it a necessity I lost all interest in it. You used to have to grind out 10 levels and then relax as you raided & just killed shit. But, when it became expected to be on 16 hours a day, 8 doing AA and 8 raiding, it got old...fast.

The bright side of it all that this is *just* an emu server.

Not that it isn't grand; I'm actually having way more fun here than i did in live, but I don't think we're going to have super strict guilds. Maybe we already do and I don't realize it because I'm only lvl 14, but people here have less vested. We aren't paying for it, you can't ebay your character (and if you did I think theres a much higher risk of it getting banned), etc.

I'm in favor of an AA system, I'm also in favor of finding a way to add more content, whether its going beyond SoV, or its some hybrid of old/new content like another thread suggested (adding the PoP zones off of existing zones and eliminating PoK? sounds good here), we're going to need something eventually, otherwise the high end will die out.