{"id":1040,"date":"2008-09-10T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2008\/09\/cox-hitting-the-level-cap\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T01:01:01","slug":"cox-hitting-the-level-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2008\/09\/cox-hitting-the-level-cap.html","title":{"rendered":"CoX – Hitting the Level Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doyce comments on hitting 50 on CoX, vs WOW and LotRO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The difference between WoW and CoH is that, since then, I\u2019ve more than doubled my \/played time on Grezzk. That is to say that I\u2019ve spent more time playing Grez AT 70 than I spent getting Grezzk TO 70. And it\u2019s fair to say that I\u2019m nowhere near \u2018done\u2019 with everything I could do with him in the end-game of WoW as it exists today (though perhaps I\u2019m done with everything I can do on the server I\u2019m on). I\u2019m getting close, but I\u2019m not done. (And an expansion is coming out in a few months to give me even more to do.)<\/p>\n

I had thought that maybe WoW had the corner on this end-game thing. I enjoyed playing Lord of the Rings Online with Kate, but I was struggling with the leveling grind in the mid-40s.<\/p>\n

Then we hit 50.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been on LotRO for a least a couple minutes (almost) every day since then, I think. There are 7 \u201cepic\u201d storylines to get through, and a bunch of dungeons to explore\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Certainly (as he points out) CoX doesn’t have a big amount of post-50 content. Are there things to do at the highest levels? Sure — a number of mission arcs run to 50 or beyond. There are police band missions on PI. There are things you can do.<\/p>\n

But … yeah. People generally don’t. I’ve pulled out my two 50s on only a couple of occasions since they dinged. The content (esp. for solo\/duo characters) isn’t terribly compelling.<\/p>\n

But beyond that, what CoX has is a rich environment for alts. With all the different power combinations (and different costume options as icing on the cake), replay of content is rarely a strict replay, but something new. The game not only encourages altitis, it practically demands it.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that there aren’t other approaches that are perfectly legit. As Doyce notes, there’s a cubic ton of content at the top levels in LotRO (and more coming all the time). I mean, there are plenty of level 50s who haven’t even gotten into Moria yet. The very nature of the game and the Ring narrative requires a rich set of content for the top-level crowd. Indeed, it seems that, like karate, it’s only once you become a black belt that you really become a student.<\/p>\n

And that’s pretty keen, too. To each their own, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doyce comments on hitting 50 on CoX, vs WOW and LotRO. The difference between WoW and CoH is that, since then, I\u2019ve more than doubled my \/played time on Grezzk. That is to say that I\u2019ve spent more time playing Grez AT 70 than I spent getting Grezzk TO 70. And it\u2019s fair to say … Continue reading “CoX – Hitting the Level Cap”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay","category-lotro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}