50+10? Abandoned or still planned?

I was asking this to someone who might be in the know on the level shift and asked if the devs will still do the level 60(level shift) still? Basically was told at this point the idea was abandoned at this point. Of course this is possibly his opinion so I turn to the forums and ask does anyone know?

When was getting us to 50(+10) EVER the plan?

The number of planned shifts seems to be vague - when the 10 slots were first announced, along with a shift for Alpha, a lot of people assumed that there'd be a shift with each slot.
As far as I know the devs haven't ever said in public that 1 slot = 1 level.

I kind of imagine as of now, the maximum number of Shifts we'll ever get is four, putting us as even conning to the basic level 54 foes of early Incarnate content. My little wild guess also believes we will not get this final shift until Omega, and it will also be the second and last shift that will apply outside of Incarnate content.

Edit: Though I think it might also be possible there will be ways to get additional level shifts temporarily, such as the Ultimate super inspiration or even special level shifts on trials like in the mag.

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Yeah, no such thing was ever planned.

It could also be possible the later tiers could give multiple level shifts. IE a level 2 gives +1 and a Tier 4 gives +2.

If they start giving too many more shifts, they'll need to add some kind of scaled back rewards or exemplaring for the lower level Trials - like getting, say, the current Keyes Island reward table for fighting gray mobs and a green Anti-matter would be unbalanced.

They already have new merits ready to go in the game. Celestial, Cosmic, and Transcendent merits. Try linking them in the chat box some time, they're there.

My guess is that the next incarnate slot will NOT have a level shift and the Omega slot WILL... being lvl 54 seems like a nice number to stop at at least until they expand the incarnate system beyond Omega.

IIRC, I believe one such comment was made in an interview on a game site that suggested that the Incarnate content *along with enhancers* would "be like" (note that this was not the same as "numerically/statistically the same as") giving a character another ten levels of power. Since then, the idea has been markedly conflated to "It's mai powah, and I want it nao!! - with a +10 if you got any." Personally I took this as a warning that most of the level shifting powers where given and that we *might* see two more max.

The first slot used the WTF salvage at first, then it could use the same salvage as the next 4 slots that were introduced. I hope that after the Praetorian iArc is brought to its conclusion that a new salvage type will be used for however many of the remaining slots will be unlocked via the new iContent.

54 is the top of the food chain for normal incarnates currently. Emperor Cole (Hail Cole!) had given himself completely to the well and as such was slightly buffed. By the time we're done I'd like to see 55. Just a smidge (technical term, 1 smidge = 3 pinches = 7 dashes) better than the existing high water mark.

The thread title is a false dichotomy. It ignores at least the third option where +10 was never planned at all.

I expect that Omega will give a level shift and that it will be quite a while before it's available. After the current incarnate system is filled out, who knows?

There was a questionnaire sent out privately to a portion of the player base prior to the release of Going Rogue that suggested some concepts and changes to the game to solicit feedback before making any decisions on them. Among them was the notion of ten "universal enhancement slots" that, as the text states, would (not to be confused with could) grant level shifts for an equivalent of level 60.

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