The push to wait until lvl > 40 for gearing up

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I see a lot of posts that say crafting doesn't need to be useful until the end game. Alternatively, people don't need money until after 40, since their equipment is going to change so fast, and everyone "knows" not to worry about gearing up until the end game.

 

If you have this sort of sentiment, not only do I disagree with you, but I think at least one dev at Bioware disagrees with you too!

 

Here is my logic.

 

1) If crafting was for higher tiers, why bother creating items that are only useful to lower level characters? I'm not just talking about gear, I'm talking about grenades and other consumables. Why create purple lvl 7 mods? Seriously, think about it. Do you really think the devs run the report "Look at these idiots reverse engineering their lvl 7 mods until they get purples! HA HA HA SUCKERS!"??!?

 

2) Why would a developer post today that people that rush to lvl 50 should expect to be lonely in a somewhat snide fashion? Its almost like they think the person shouldn't have tried to get max level so fast.

 

So I was wondering to myself how the issue could be so contentious. Surely people like to play with their gear? Then I realized, no, maybe some people don't. It goes back to the different types of players. You know, its some sort of list like Completionists, PVP, Explorers, etc Some players are dedicated to leveling. I don't know what category they'd be, maybe Completionists. They want, no, maybe they even "need" to constantly level. And those people wonder what everyone else is doing wasting their time doing things that don't directly help leveling.

 

The same way people who love to switch out their gear, love to mod things, play with different types of looks, etc, want to spend their credits on being the best character they can be "AT EVERY LEVEL OF THE GAME".

 

Yes we know the gear is going to be outleveled soon. Awesome, that means I get to look for new gear! You know when I'll be sad and less interested in playing my character? When I'm lvl 50 and can't find any better gear.

 

Because I don't play the game to be lvl 50. I don't play it to complete every quest either. I play it to find loots and to experience story. When I run out of new loot to find, and no more story to experience, I'll either make a new character or quit the game. And not NERD RAGE quit, just...quit, like I did when Deux Ex got boring, or any other game got boring. Not when I hit the end of the game, or max my level, or whatever, just when I stop thinking I can experience anything novel or interesting. It isn't natural (to me) to play the same game longer than a year, a game, like a movie or a tv series, is meant to end. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Its silly to get angry when it does.

 

I don't know if other people who are trying to make money in their 20s also love to play with their gear and spend far too much time crafting new things just for the fun of crafting them, are also people irritated by the slicing change, but I know at least I am, and constant pressure from people to "grow up and play the game right, focus on lvl 50 since thats the only part of the game that matters" is pretty irritating.

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People play the game for many reasons, this much is true. Many people come from WoW where the game really just started when you reached max level, and leveling itself was, for the most part, tedious and boring. Partially I think that's where the "rush to 50" mentality comes from (and I'm not saying that as a bad thing).

 

Another part of it is that there are some that played the beta extensively and are already familiar with the class quests, flashpoints, etc, so naturally they would be more prone to skip through the conversations and level up quickly.

 

Yet another factor is that some entire guilds came from other games such as Rift and WoW, and these guilds came to experience the operations, so they level their mains quickly to get into raiding.