Folks,

As part of our ongoing effort to tweak Warhammer Online based on player play patterns, we are making some adjustments to the rate and manner of experience gain in certain parts of the game. We continually analyze the data from our in-game metrics tool and as a result, we have made some changes to WAR. These changes will ensure that you will see a noticeable improvement to the rate at which you gain experience in tiers 3 and 4.

We are currently in the planning stages for our next phase of experience enhancements, so expect more on this subject soon. In the meantime, we know these adjustments will make for an enhanced game experience in the later tiers as well as providing additional incentive for people to engage in open RvR action. Again, please keep in mind that these changes are only the first step and we have some additional changes/improvements to open RvR that we can talk about next week.

Quest Experience Rewards
• We have revised the experience awarded for completing quests in chapters 10 through 22.

New Repeatable Quests
• We have added new repeatable PvE quests to all tier 3 chapters (chapters 10 through 14).
• The new quests offered in chapters 10 and 11 may be completed twice each.
• The new quests offered in chapters 12 and 13 may be completed three times each.
• The new quests offered in chapter 14 may be completed four times each.

Skirmish RvR Experience
• The experience earned for killing an enemy player in an RvR lake will be increased by +50%.

Again, this is only the first step, there will be more next week. Also, please keep in mind that on the lower pop servers, leveling time was slower do to the less frequent popping of scenarios and open RvR. These changes will help alleviate that and make it easier on the high pop servers as well so people on those servers, enjoy the bonus!

As I've said from the beginning, we have great tools in place to measure this stuff but it does take time to go through all the data. We will not overreact as we have done in the past but nor will we wait forever before taking action. I hope the steps we've taken today and those we will continue to take over the lifetime of WAR will show our dedication to making this game a fun and enjoyable experience for everybody.

Mark

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Posted by Mark Jacobs on the VN board, also here

Looks like this already went in as hot fix.

bah, cant beleive they are catering to the whiners who want to level to 40 in 5 days. sucks.

They just keep making it easier and easier..

Originally posted by Wolfenpride

They just keep making it easier and easier..

To answer to your question, err hem, Mr. Mark Jacobs

On some servers, it wasn't but on others it was. So, we decided just to apply them to everybody instead of trying to tweak individual servers. Our intention was never, is never to make it a grind to get to level 40 and we thought we had enough quests, scenarios and open RvR action to make it easy for everybody to do so. Unfortunately, for too many servers, it was a little slower than we wanted and on the lowest pop servers, it was much harder than we wanted it to be. So, extra exp for everybody! happy We'd rather be a bit more generous rather than stingy when it comes to the enjoyment of our players.

Mark

I really don't see how its 'catering' or makign thigns 'easier' these have been issues since closed beta. T3 is incredibly slow way too slow infact...slower than the EQ1 Hell Levels which is a huge negative and a grind.

They never said that PvE leveling would be 'slow' they always said that Renown Rank Leveling would take you the longest time to cap.  If they suddenly make RR leveling at T4 mega easy to get to Rank 80 then I could see a reason for complaints.  I swear some people aren't happy unless they have a reason to bitch even if their bitching makes no sense.

Is it just me that doesnt really care about the low/mid level PvE?

Personaly, i look forward to this, I havnt touched my marauder since level 21, not because the exp curve was to steep, but that i didnt have enough quests and i dont like grinding that much (yeah quests and grinding are pretty similar)

I should have named the topic and open RvR improvement as well, since they boost exp in open RvR by 50%.

Good god.. I love the people complaining about this already.

Trying to fix the broken xp scaling in the later tiers? For shame, Mythic!

it was needed on some servers? how bout merging the low population servers. this hardly seem like a solution. no one should have to play on empty servers because you guys released too many at launch.