What do you think

While I said I would've preferred the unlock to be moved to 35 instead of 20, I really didn't say how I feel about it.

I feel perfectly neutral about the unlock level being moved. Whether it's Lvl 20, Lvl 5, or Level 48.7, I really don't care. Why? I have 50s across both factions, across all of my accounts. Yeah, it was rough going for my first, and it got easier as I went. Now that it's all done, it doesn't affect me at all.

The issue of "it took me X Time to get Y Results and it should take that long for everyone else" argument is pointless. X and Y are Variable

Things get easier as time goes on. Whether it's the natural evolution of skill, or the dumbing down of aspects of the game, the game moves forward. As long as things are introduced as challenges, then there's always a carrot on that stick to keep me chasing along in this awesome game I love so much.

I think Kheldians should be available at level 1 but, once you reach lvl 50, they close the archetype and delete any on your account. That way you have to choose between playing a goofy space squid or having level 50's

Earth For Humans!

I'm with Adeon_Hawkwood. I'm having trouble parsing the OP's original complaint.

After nearly six years as a subscriber, (vet-wise, chronologically I go back to beta) I have one level fifty, blue-side. I barely played on red-side. Despite that, I seem to have unlocked epic archetypes on red-side. Unless there was a rule change that says "Any level 50 unlocks EAT's on both sides" (it could be, I've been lax the last year or so) then I'm benefitting from a nice bug in my favor.

Either way, I'm having fun on red-side for the first time ever as a Soldier of Arachnos. My character looks badass and plays badass and I have a slew of options available as far as his buildouts.

Based on my personal experience, I can only see benefits to making epics easily unlockable for everyone. It honestly renewed my interest in the game when I'd pretty much stopped playing or even visiting the forum. The only real problem is that a brand new player is likely to ask "So, where are my wonderful goodies for levels 30, 40, and 50? What do you mean I only get an aura? Wait, I got to fifty and I don't get anything at all?"

Personally, I feel that Epics shouldn't be unlocked until you've got at least 3 other ATs to 30. I haven't played a VEAT yet, but I found the Kheldians (Warshade, no PeaceBringers yet) to be very complicated. It required the cummulative experience from all my characters' time to figure out a playstyle for it, not to mention, how to build it. Frankly, I haven't created a PB yet because I don't want to deal with that again.

It's not a big deal. I've already unlocked both by getting at least one character to 50 on each side and I'm not bothered by this.

Maybe those leeching healing aura-only empaths will play an EAT and actually play now?

Maybe there will be less kins bothering me with SBs. Yeah, this is a good thing.

My honest opinion? 20 seems early to me. At the very least, it is way early to be playing a Kheldian. At the time, Kheldians were designed around two assumptions: (1) by the time you unlock Kheldians, you know how to play the game, so it's okay with you if we make it harder, and (2) by the time you unlock Kheldians, you've been playing for at least 450 hours, which means that it's very likely that you have plenty of friends to team with you, so it's okay if we hand you an archetype that's only barely playable solo, that gets an average stats boost of 25% or so across the board from being on a big team. I don't think that's going to be true for the vast majority of the people who unlock Kheldians at level 20. At level 20, attribute modifiers have barely kicked in. At level 20, you don't even have your character in single-origin enhancements. At level 20, you've unlocked only 11 of the 18 powers in your primary and secondary powerset; you don't even have a feel for how one character plays, let alone how the whole game's game mechanics work.

I understand the impulse. Right now, the target for "hours to 50" is 250 hours. Someone who plays the industry-average 22 hours a week has to look at people who are "more privileged" than them for almost three months, for three months they have to ask "why can't I play a shapeshifter?" and "why can't I play an Arachnos soldier?" If they have alt-itis (and this game really encourages alt-itis), it could easily be a year or more; it's not uncommon to hear some people say that they didn't get their first 50 for two years.

And there's a practical argument for making Kheldians and Arachnos as common as dirt: the 2% of the player base that plays those characters are screaming for upgrades and improvements (well, to some of the combos), and if you were the lead designer, you'd have a hard time justifying spending big money on a game system that will only affect half a percent or one percent or even 2% of your customers. If you want to see Peacebringers or Warshades or Soldiers or Widows get some developer attention, there need to be a lot more of them. This would do that.

Me, I'd set it at 40, not 20. But I can live with it.

Is "EPICS AT 50!" the new Merge The Servers now?