Multiple classes is one of the best parts of this game, but changes made this year with Book and Scrolls has made having multiple characters or switching character classes very difficult and expensive.
There are plenty of reasons to try a new character:
Current class does not fit your playstyle
Current class does not fit your preferred format (PvP, KD, etc.)
You may want to switch gender
Perhaps with some lessons learned from the Refining process there is a path to making this possible.
Introduce a mechanic where we can delete a character and receive a refund on the Glyphs spent to level their scrolls and book.
Letâs say I have a level 50 Mercenary with level 50 Books and Scroll, but I really want to play a Berserker instead. I would be able to create a new Berserker character, level is to 50, and delete my Merc. With the ârecoveredâ glyphs I could then level up my new Berserkerâs Book and Scrolls.
There would still be a cost involved:
Gold to level the Book and Scrolls
Shards to level the Book and Scrolls
Time to level a new character
This would also not change the cost for players that are âcompletionistsâ and want to have all classes at 50 with max Book and Scrolls, but it will provide enjoyment and flexibility during the journey to that goal.
Remember, there are a lot of players who had several alts before 3.0 and had leveled a few gear pieces, who are now sitting on level-50 battle scrolls for ALL their alts. Thatâs already a gift worth hundreds of glyphs that I, as a post-3.0 player, will never be able to afford. It would widen the divide even more if you could convert a little-used alt directly into 200 glyphs!
A different suggestion: why not have the glyph costs count only once across all characters? i.e., if you have one character with a level 47 weapon scroll, then any other characterâs weapon scroll can be leveled up to 47 without glyphs (but all the rest of the normal costs). Itâs not a freebie; as a post-3.0 player Iâll still have to work to reach the same level as the longtime players. But it also wonât be unattainable for me to have a few viable classes. And it would solve OPâs problem too, without the imbalance.
My goal here was to help the post 3.0 playerbase. The goal was not to get a huge pile of glyphs by deleting an alt, as I really donât have a use. Try not to assume someone has sinister motives when they are helping you.
Furthermore, the mythical pre-3.0 player that âwon the lotteryâ in the update is an extreme edge case. Look at the complaints from the long-term/high-dollar playerbase about what they lost in the gear update when you consider it was beneficial for all of the established players.
Your problem statement (top quote), and solution (bottom quote), are the same thing. Is it only OK when you are included in the portion of the Venn Diagram that get gets the Glyph âgiftâ?
I am also an advocate for a single book/scrolls per account, but I do not they are willing to go down that road. This was a suggestion to get some experimentation capabilities back into the game.
The issue with this is that we have suggested it already a thousand times, but due to the devs silence on that it seems pretty clear that they are against it. So the goal of this post was to suggest something that the devs may be more ready to implement.
It is true that players with several classes at lvl 50 battle scrolls would get more benefits from it, but it seems a great idea for newer players too. The ability too experiment and try different things in this game should be a big part of it, but right now that is difficult to do with classes. I believe that having a way to relocate expensive resources such as glyphs would help a lot. This could be done through different means, if there is fear on veteran players abusing the âdelete character â get glyphs backâ mechanic we could get a way to directly exchange battle scroll levels between classes instead, for example. But we do really need something that helps and promotes experimenting and playing with different classes among newer players without huge costs.
Huh? Why the sudden personal attack? I only talked about your suggestion, not about motives. Maybe turn the heat down a bit?
I mean, uh, yes? An update thatâs beneficial to everyone is better than an update thatâs beneficial only to some. Is that controversial? And it avoids an exploit allowing some people to just turn a little-used alt into 200 glyphs.
Well, allow me to be the 1,001th person to suggest something that I think makes good sense.
