Why would they reduce the max lvl to 20 and not let us try again to 25 or even more? …
i thing couse they gives us lower drop on legenday but this will me strooonger legs 
Artificially inflate the world boss difficulty so everyone doesn’t hit 20 log off, login for 1st world boss spawn and be done. Defeats the purpose of a “server slam”
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Maybe they didn’t have enough people hit 25 in the first two betas?
Because it’s 48hrs instead of 72hrs and they thought it was more reasonable to hit 20 in 48hrs since they probably saw people had trouble hitting 25 in 72hrs.
HOWEVER - it’s important to note at level 20 - YOU DO NOT GET ULTIMATES…so Ashava with less legendary drops and no ultimates is likely going to be a slightly bigger pain.
But will still be cheesed by Necro and Sorc.
This Slam beta is to re-test all the changes made plus give people extra chance at getting the reward they might have missed during the first and second betas in March.
Necro will be pretty strong but without the added bonus from the golem it might struggle, unless they revert the golem quest back to 20. Sorc will most definitely have no issues since it just needs to do the level 15 quest for the enchantment.
Incorrect.
Reduce level, dangle cosmetic reward. Encourages people to rush to level 20 and encourages people to rip Ashava apart. This will induce a massive surge of players to play all at once, which is the literal intent of this beta - the “server slam”.
Plenty of people won’t rush online knowing that friday is usually a crapshoot. Getting to 20 doesn’t take long and theres a plethora of world boss spawns.
Server and networking issues aren’t limited to initial surges. They need data on consistent load as well.
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Um correct. It literally is the test the changes that they made since they had hiccups during the first 2 betas.
Mainly a stress test but I don’t believe we will have enough points to hit any ultimate abilities. So maybe it will give them more data on lower level skills for further balancing adjustments prior to the launch.
No, Ashavas level has been reduced to level20 also.
EDIT: Guess i remember wrong.
They are only testing the servers so your level is meaningless to them.
The first boss doesn’t spawn for the first 21 hours.
Everything they want to know will happen before the first world boss ever spawns.
Incorrect.
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I could have sworn I heard or saw that Ashava would be level 25 somewhere, but I couldn’t find where I saw/heard that.
Hmm, that’s weird. I’m sure i heard them say that the boss was also reduced in level on the previous livestream.
I’m still holding onto my conspiracy theory: They are also testing how players perform without an ulti for evaluation purposes to determine if we should have a separate slot for ultimate skill.
There are probably factors they might be looking at in the whole picture of things during this beta. We know the level is reduced to 20 and the beta is only available for 2 days.
- How quickly players reach level 20
- How impactful are builds at level 20
- World boss difficulty
- Build performance
Maybe they don’t want to have overcrowded server? Cant see any other reason, the one who don’t care for cosmetics , wont bother. Cba sitting in game trying to get a boss for multiple hours.
Why does that matter? we’re going to be level 20 for a very short time. No class was unplayable in the last beta. If you say druid, L2P.