{"id":171346,"date":"2023-07-14T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=171346"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T18:10:40","slug":"much-work-think-reach-max-level-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2023\/07\/14\/much-work-think-reach-max-level-game\/","title":{"rendered":"How much work do you think it should be to reach max level in a game?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honestly, my upward progress in\u00a0Diablo 4<\/em><\/a> has hit a stretch I’d describe as \u201cexcruciating,\u201d except that I feel that’s not really strong enough. Even with the recent buffs to Nightmare Dungeons and the quests from the Tree of Whispers, I seem to take between 2 to 3 days to get a level now. My recent ding of level 84 felt like I was dragging myself, naked and covered in grease, up a pole while carrying\u00a0 another person on my back.<\/p>\n

Diablo 3<\/em><\/a> didn’t feel like this to me. There’s a slog to this particular grind that hasn’t been there for me in a single game I’ve played for the past few years in fact —\u00a0Assassin’s Creed Odyssey,\u00a0<\/em>which has a level cap of 99 and literally thousands of points you can spend after you hit max level, didn’t feel this<\/em> grindy. And part of it is time related — on days when I can sit down and devote two or three hours to leveling in a stretch, I can usually bang out close to half a level in that time, but those days do not appear to be very common for me. So it’s possible it’s not the game (with which I am still deeply in love) but simply my schedule that prevents me from leveling like I did in ye olden days.<\/p>\n

Also it could be that I’m conditioned by all of my\u00a0World of Warcraft<\/em><\/a> experience, because even back before the leveling squish when we were aiming for level 120 I could start a new character and be max level in a few days between Heirlooms, friends to carry me through dungeons, and a general density of options for cutting corners.<\/p>\n

So now, let me ask you guys — how hard should it be to get to max level in a game? Should it take a bit of effort? Should you need to invest sizable chunks of time — say, 3 hours a day for a month — to get there? How much is too much vs. just enough when it comes to difficulty leveling up in a game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honestly, my upward progress in\u00a0Diablo 4 has hit a stretch I’d describe as \u201cexcruciating,\u201d except that I feel that’s not really strong enough. Even with the recent buffs to Nightmare Dungeons and the quests from the Tree of Whispers, I seem to take between 2 to 3 days to get a level now. My recent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75925,75928,24,66854,3],"tags":[539,77492,681],"yst_prominent_words":[8180,25573,8879,8265,8640,9016],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171846,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171346\/revisions\/171846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171346"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=171346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}