Comments on: Alternate Advancement Slider – Thoughts?

By: Aketut

Aketut — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:37:48 +0000

As far as I know it is limited to 50% on the PVP servers.

By: Stubble

Stubble — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:14:27 +0000

My AA slider only goes up to 50!

By: Aketut

Aketut — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:02:19 +0000

The AA slider is great. I stopped playing my alts because even with disabled combat XP leveling was to fast. Now I’ve played a few days with the slider at 90% and this was very fun. No more wasted XP.

I didn’t know that about L&L items. That is great news.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:23:35 +0000

Wow, 35 AAs by level 15? That’s very impressive. I remember betting someone I could get 50 AAs by level 20 and failing miserably

By: Ferrel

Ferrel — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:33:46 +0000

I love the option to have an AA slider. I also love you for posting this information! I was going to level to 80 and then work on AA. Clearly that isn’t the best thing for me to do. While I think it is kind of silly that you’re basically penalized for being max level it isn’t that big of a deal if you know. I’m going to have to turn off regular exp myself!

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:23:09 +0000

Ahhhh crap. Listen up Stargrace, you HAVE to stop blogging about EQ2, OK? I am currently neck deep in WoW, EVE, and Aion and I simply cannot afford another game, yet I come to your site, read about some new feature or adventure you are having and it makes my clicky finger start reaching for the SoE bookmark in my browser.

Seriously though, I am more tempted than ever to start playing again thanks to the AA slider. I loved that feature in EQ1 and always wished it existed in EQ2. In fact, the way that EQ2 allows you to lock out exp has always been great. I always play MMOs with my brother but he, having a lot more free time, inevitably blows past me. Using this system he could continue playing, dumping points into AA without surpassing me too much in level. Brilliant!

By: Grump

Grump — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:17:57 +0000

I love the slider. I made a level 10 Bruiser the other day and then moved the slider to 100% AA and with in two hours I was up to 30AA. After I hit all the ~10 areas I am going to level up to 14 and lock it there until I can’t spend the AA.

By: Click this. « Gestalt Mind

Click this. « Gestalt Mind — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:30:03 +0000

[...] talking about this particular update. Somehow, some way, it simply didn’t sink in until I read this post this morning. In my shared bank, I have 2 36-slot boxes filled to overflowing with L&L [...]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:07:39 +0000

I love the aa slider. I created a dwarf zerker this weekend and was able to get him level 12 with 31 aa. He’s crazy over powered, but it’s fun. I wish my 80′s were able to do this, as it stands, my warlock is 80 with 179 aa. But if all goes to plan, my zerker should be 100 before 70 (not sure what the pre-80 cap is now that we can get 200).

By: Ysharros

Ysharros — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:38:37 +0000

@GA — You’ll only get 50% bonus xp if you have 5 (or more) max level chars. Before that it’s 10% per 80 (so +20% if you have 2 level 80s, and so on) — at least, that’s how it works for crafting; I may be making an incorrect assumption regarding the combat side of things.

As for the AA slider, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I don’t do combat much, and I really hated the idea of turning off xp so I could try to catch up my AA. As a result, I’ve never really done that and it always seemed to me like a waste of xp I’d been earning. Having the slider ensures I’m getting all my xp, I’m just allocating it differently, and for someone who does the non-crafting side of things as little as I do, that’s a big bonus. Since the AA stuff has become quite important in one’s character makeup, I think it’s good that people will have a chance to accrue a reasonable amount of it without having to become all OCD about it.