I wonder if an OW2 level will equal an OW1 level in the amount of effort it will take to achieve it? Will it be easier to achieve a new level in OW2?
I wonder if your level resets to zero again every season? Or would a long time player show “level 6000”, while a new player shows “level 20”.
And would high level players leave a comp match instantly if they saw a group of low level characters on their team (thinking they might not have access to all the character choices)?
They are removing levels in OW2. Old players will keep it just in the profile.
The only levels in OW2 will be the battlepass levels which will reset at each new battleapss.
I wonder if getting a BP-level in OW2 will take the same amount of time as a level in OW1, or whether it’ll be a little easier?
If every level has 10k exp it will be twice as fast as current leveling.
Awesome. That was what I was hoping.
I can only assume, and forgive me for being cynical, that the leveling speed will be tuned to whatever is just shy of acceptable to the type of player likely to spend money on XP boosts. And you know they have the internal metrics to back that up.
The amount of XP it takes per lvl doesn’t matter when devs can easily tune the amount of XP earned from playtime and match completion. Even if it’s 10k/lvl it could take more playtime to get that 10k than it did for 20k XP OW1. Adding XP boosts to the game only gives Blizz an incentive to make normal leveling even slower.
Jon Spector said that a “hardcore player” could get to level 55 of the battle pass within a few weeks so I assume that’s the speed they’re targeting. If you would consider yourself anything less than a “hardcore player” you can probably count on getting less than 2.5 levels/day at most. Though it could be up to 5/day, if you grease up that XP bar with some cash like they’re counting on.
They said “if”. The best information we have on how much grind there’ll be is that it’ll take a dedicated, hardcore player 2-ish weeks to get to level 55.
What “hardcore” means is anyone’s guess, but I personally think it’s probably someone with no job and nothing else to do who plays 7 days a week.
That’s also assuming we gain exp at the same rate.
Obviously even though it wouldn’t make sense to change that if you can change the required number instead.
no. there is reason we have dailies and weeklies mission now
I think people are putting wayyyyyy to much importance on this… 