WoW the worst power-leveling game ever

paradyme · May 2004

WoW's so called inovations are going to be its downfall. No KSing is such a horible idea, here's why.

1. u need is a high lvl friend

2. u have him take u out to a high lvl hunting area

3. u hit a high lvl monster once

4. u have him kill the monster

6. Voila u get all the xp and he gets none and ur lvl 50 in 2 weeks.

How craptastic is that? That game is gonna be exploited so bad and maxed out in weeks. Go WoW Go

darkman · May 2004

Umm, MANY other games have done the no KSing thing, and truthfully, that is one of the better idea's I've seen. Trust me, play some Korean MMORPG's and you will find out why :P.

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Adreal · May 2004

If that's how it works then there's certainly a flaw in it, but first where would you get a high level friend? When the game comes out, everyone's going to be the same level. That plan wouldn't work...at least for a while. Once the game's been out for a while then, yeah, it'd probably be exploited badly. There's probably a better way to orchestrate the prevention of KSing. Just off the top of my head here's my idea: it's the same plan except that the person who attacked it first has to take off maybe 30-40% of the monster's hp before it can be considered their kill. This would make it so the lower level character would still have to earn his xp by taking a longer time to get the 30-40% off and would prevent (to a degree) the KSing of those annoying high lvl characters.

I also thought about another flaw in that aspect of WoW. Someone could just go around hitting all the monsters in a specific area only once. Then when they regenerate and others come along and kill a monster then that xp wouldn't go to them but to the guy who was "grazing" off of every monster in the area. That would be a major flaw unless it involved timing as well.

Obiyer · May 2004

Originally posted by Adreal

I also thought about another flaw in that aspect of WoW. Someone could just go around hitting all the monsters in a specific area only once. Then when they regenerate and others come along and kill a monster then that xp wouldn't go to them but to the guy who was "grazing" off of every monster in the area. That would be a major flaw unless it involved timing as well.

Well, if the monsters are so much higher level-wise than your character; your little guy will die preety fast. I'm sure blizzard will have a timer on the first hit thing. Worse if the monsters are aggro-mob.

Adreal · May 2004

Ah. yeah, just thought about the way they had it in Horizons (I think?). You had to fight stuff generally around the level of your character otherwise you wouldn't gain much exp from it. That's the way they handled that issue of power leveling.

Obiyer · May 2004

Please don't compare WoW to Horizons. Horizons ranks as one of the most tedious shallow games I have ever have the misfortune of playing. If your a dragon you can't help but to attack high level mobs because when I was playing the quests where unbalanced and at level 40+ they had you killing level 55 Ogres. Don't get me started on the werewolves.

Nugget · May 2004

Well if thats how the current code works, ill nearly garuntee they change it. If thats the case yes it would ruin the game but im sure they will put some anti power level code in there so if a high level player hits the mob iether A) he gets the exp or the exp is negated so there would be none.

Im sure they will fix this if this is how it currently works. because it would be retarded if it worked this way. newbies join the game 3 months after release and hit level 50 in 2 weeks they quit the game.

Birdeye · May 2004

The one thing you need to remember is that WOW is still in beta which means it's not a finshed product yet that's why they have beta testers so they can have someone tell them about the problems they see.

Later,

Birdeye

killerTwinkie · May 2004

If anyone here is playing beta please inform us on how this is currently being handled. I honestly dont like people sitting around talking about ideas on how certain things work when they ca not go find out. Makes things seem worse then they are!

Please, beta players save us!

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ghog69 · May 2004

As of right now, you tap a mob and make it yours. If someone near your level helps, you get FULL xp. (They get nothing unless they are in your group.) If a high-level helps, you get "reduced" xp. They have said there will be a timer on the tapping part to keep people from running around 'claiming' mobs and fighting at their leisure.

Munki · May 2004

Blizzard will fix this, keep in mind, im sure you've heard this a million times, "Its BETA, the purpose is to iron out problems like these". lol

bsherlock · May 2004

Providing they manage to sort this out properly then i think it is a good idea. The however i think that if you attack a mob that is going to be impossible for you to kill alone then you should only get xp based on the percentage damage you cause, modified by the amount of aggro you attract from that creature. For example if you cause 10% damage but the mob attacks you with 100% of its attacks then you should get bonus xp for surviving. But if your mate jumps in and gets the aggro so you can hit it without comeback then you get even less than your 10%.

4 stars sucks i want my 5 stars back!

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