Have to say that overall I am liking the new level of difficulty. I am used to playing games where it takes weeks or months to fully gear out a character and when I first started playing CoH again after a 5 year absence or so, I was shocked by how easy it was. After getting my Crab to 50, which took all of 3 weeks playing moderately, I was shocked when I was able to get to t3 alpha in roughly 2-3 days. This is a laughable amount of time to max the endgame content on an mmo.
I then decided to level up a farm character since that seems to be the new thing to do. This took 2 days. Between carrying alts and salvage/recipes I have well over a billion inf, and this took about a week.
I was contemplating leaving the game again, simply because it had so little challenge. Then with i20, my very well io'ed main got owned hard on the Lam/Baf trials. I was glad for the challenge so I spent the next few days hitting them hard. Currently I have tier 3 in everything except my warworks (tier 2, waiting for rare) and ageless (tier 1). The trials seem much better now with the level shift and I am enjoying the risk vs reward ratio a lot better than chain running ITF for shards.
I do say that for EXTREME casual players, they need to have some other way to get threads at a reduced rate, but realistically it's not that hard to get the new components at a fair rate, even if you are unsuccessful at defeating the tf.
Anyway, I am loving i20 so far.
Addendum: I am not a kiddie, I have a full time job and a spouse. So please don't throw out barbs about how anyone with a 'life' cannot achieve similar results.
Have to say that overall I am liking the new level of difficulty. I am used to playing games where it takes weeks or months to fully gear out a character and when I first started playing CoH again after a 5 year absence or so, I was shocked by how easy it was. After getting my Crab to 50, which took all of 3 weeks playing moderately, I was shocked when I was able to get to t3 alpha in roughly 2-3 days. This is a laughable amount of time to max the endgame content on an mmo.
I then decided to level up a farm character since that seems to be the new thing to do. This took 2 days. Between carrying alts and salvage/recipes I have well over a billion inf, and this took about a week.
I was contemplating leaving the game again, simply because it had so little challenge. Then with i20, my very well io'ed main got owned hard on the Lam/Baf trials. I was glad for the challenge so I spent the next few days hitting them hard. Currently I have tier 3 in everything except my warworks (tier 2, waiting for rare) and ageless (tier 1). The trials seem much better now with the level shift and I am enjoying the risk vs reward ratio a lot better than chain running ITF for shards.
I do say that for EXTREME casual players, they need to have some other way to get threads at a reduced rate, but realistically it's not that hard to get the new components at a fair rate, even if you are unsuccessful at defeating the tf.
Anyway, I am loving i20 so far.
Addendum: I am not a kiddie, I have a full time job and a spouse. So please don't throw out barbs about how anyone with a 'life' cannot achieve similar results.