03-12-2005, 01:32 AM
savaughn,Mar 11 2005, 03:14 PM Wrote:Disagree - on both points. Blizzard went out of their way to put content twenty levels above the regional content into certain zones. For example, there are 5 Horde quests up to level 35 in Gnomeregan that take you through Dun Morogh where the average Alliance player is level 7. Those quests are still green for Horde players up to level 41. Blizz very much intended to draw players of unequal level into conflict and designed their game to reflect that.
Terrible example. Horde players get to Gnomeregan via an instant teleporter in Booty Bay. They never have to actually walk through Dun Morogh except as a ghost during a corpse run. Besides, Dun Morogh is Alliance territory, so the Alliance players can't be attacked by Horde players there anyway unless the Alliance players attack first, even on PvP servers. The only real example of mixed levels in a given area is the notorious Hillsbrad zone where level 30's Alliance players have to go through the area where level 20's Horde players quest multiple times to get to complete their quests in Alterac and the Scarlet Monastery. Hence, that's why Hillsbrad is gank central.
Quote:A lot of the NPC guards in the newbie areas are level 55 - fair game for level 60 PvP'ers. Because of this, Blizz is marking these guys as fair game and practically begging for high levels to go hang out in the opposing newbie towns.
Actually, it's the opposite. The guards used to be lower level than this, but higher level players kept killing NPC's in newbie towns, so Blizzard raised the level of the guards to make raiding newbie towns more of a challenge -- Not an impossible challenge, but something that might take more than a solo player to achieve.