The real problem is WAR is still growing. This whole ‘lower tiers will be empty’ thing is wrong. T1 was THRIVING last night on Thorgrim, and even on the destro side scenarios were popping within 5-10 minutes, too fast to fit an a PQ between. They just announced 750k accounts, and that number will continue to increase, as new players continue to file in. No need to rush to 40, plenty of action to be found in T1, and early T2. Those at the high end just need to wait for everyone to catch up and fill in the spaces.

I did notice a slowdown at the top of T2 and I’m reading that there aren’t enough quests in T3… but I’m not bored yet. I’m out of town this weekend and missing playing. Missing it a lot.

The reasons boil down to:
a) not enough players… I think / hope this is because the player base hasn’t reached T3 yet, and this will resolve itself soon
b) everyone who is there, is playing scenarios, and they’re only playing one of the SIX scenarios, and it gets really old really fast (even if I’m an ironbreaker, who as you’ll discover has the most fun on that map due to knockbacks + lava). I’m hoping they’ll fix this map, and I’m hoping the new “queue all” button for scenarios will diversify things there
c) the open RvR mechanic sucks… best we can hope for is that they devise good ways to get players involved in that over the coming weeks

I felt the grind pretty much the exact same time that you did, and am unable to motivate myself to level up past the mid 20’s grinding scenarios anymore. I’m currently toying around with alts, including rolling destro characters on another server. I’ll probably buy another month’s subscription to see how things pan out, but if things aren’t fixed I’m going to give it a few months until they are.

I miss fluff dreadfully. Housing, real markets, real crafting, all the stuff that USED to be considered important in games and now, for some reason, are being abandoned more and more quickly. Probably because they’re a pain in the ass to implement and they don’t involve phat money shots of people chopping each other’s heads off. I mean, there’s only so many people who will ohhh and ahhh over a new item of housing deco.

I’m one of them, but I suspect I’m going to have to learn to do without. If anything, I think we will see less and less fluff in games as they pare down to become more and more like console FPSs just with more people.

Now I’m all depressed.

My biggest complaint is also the PQs. I feel like I no sooner cap Influence in one Chapter then POW, next Chapter is here and I have to start all over again.

It goes fast in a group but even at lower tiers now (I’m playing 4 or 5 characters at once) its tough to find a group.

I always figured it would get more grindy later. Yeah scenarios are fun now, but what about the 10,000 time I do them on my 3rd alt, because there is noone around for PQs or world RvR?

They always add the super cool flavor stuff later. Like LOTRO, EQ2, and SWG all have.

I always look at how my dad, at age 63, plays WoW. He plays each character to 70, on a rested bonus rotation, and then QUITS. Doesn’t raid, he never does 5 mans, he just levels, plays the auction house, and then plays another class.

He never once complains. I don’t know how he does it honestly