2012-06-07, 11:55 AM
SaptaZapta Wrote:No. It needs to be 200 to give people motivation to get to 200, and to keep level 200's interested.
Throughout the game, people want to level up because they want the next skill, the next set of equips. They want to get stronger. They want to be able to beat bigger and badder bosses.
At 180, none of that is relevant. You have all your skills, pretty much. You're wearing your endgame gear. You can fight any boss. The only way to get stronger is to pour more money (real world or from merching) into your gear. Leveling up is pointless.
But if you knew that level 200 gives you not just a 4% area buff and a fat flightless dragon mount, but access to "the bonus stage"? The exclusive dungeon with special enemies (as people have described above) dropping extra special level 200 goodies, like say a potion that makes you immune to seduce one time? You bet you'd have motivation to get to 200, and after you're there you'll have motivation to keep playing.
I'm 196 and I would love to get to 200 just because it's an achievement. However, what really bars me isn't motivation so much as the mind-numbing boringness of repeatedly PQing and Strongholding to get those last couple of billion exp. I want something that isn't so damn boring; it doesn't have to be fast exp, it just needs to be not boring.

