Has anything been said about whether the level requirement for expert professions is going to stay at 26 after phase 2 launches? If so, no one will be able to work on leveling up any professions until they go out and get a full level of exp. It feels weird to keep gathering professions locked at 150 while leveling from 25-26, and only then being able to start working on skinning, herbing, etc.
The usual level before SoD was level 20 for training 150-225 for the non-gathering professions. Gathering professions could be trained sooner. The trainers now all say level 26 for all professions. I agree they could make the gathering professions 25.
It will take like 4 hours to get that level, I don’t think they need to change anything that will be irrelevant in less than a week.
It’s not like they need to “balance” anything with this change. It would just be a line of code that says “When p2 launches, beep boop beep, swap expert level req from 26 to 25, or back to 20, or whatever.”
I mean yeah, but why bother? Accommodating a few sweaties that will otherwise have zero impact means its more trouble than its worth.
If they do it, great. But it seems kinda like the thing requiring the absolute least amount of attention.
I’d argue the change would accommodate the non-sweaties more. It’s the sweaties who will be on right at launch and get to 26 and beyond as quickly as possible. The non-sweaties will take longer and could benefit from being able to tick up their gathering professions while more slowly leveling up.
The one reason I can think of for sticking to 26 is that ore, new herbs and the best skins will go up in price substantially for the next month or so. Making the remaining bots need to level to get access to new materials is a good thing.
That’s a reasonable take.
That is one good reason. Dangit.