Its an interesting idea, but at the moment, our current policy is to 'not take away' from things but to add on. as far as a 'de-lvling' ability, im not sure if it would fall under this catagory or not. In response, I will bring this idea up to the other staff members and ask KP. Thank you for your time and your post.

~Darthas

Would be very nice and usefull.

I totally understand and agree with the 'no take-away' policy, but there already are such mechanics in the game: you can wipe and reset your talent points as often as you want, you can unlearn a trade and replace it with another as often as you want, etc.

So it's not exactly taking away, it's giving you a chance to save tons of time by greatly speeding up faction grinding. It's not very different from buying levels to save time you'd spend grinding xp, imho.

Also, I have absolutely no idea what powers GMs have on The Den (I was a GM on a few low-class private servers and we could do some pretty amazing things).

So I was wondering if you couldn't just make it so that GMs can strip a few levels on demand instead of going through all the trouble of implementing a new NPC (like those from whom you can *purchase* levels).

*OR*

Let's say that for whatever reason de-levelling doesn't cut it with the powers that be.

How about the possibility to 'Freeze' your xp gain (an On/Off switch in some sort). I'd freeze my upcoming tradeskiller at about 235, farm all the factions I'll ever need then flip the switch back on and fly to 255? Easy and nothing taken away! : )

Would that be easier for you guys? It would somewhat resemble the 'twinks' from retail that stay at level 19, 29, 39 or whatever to pwn BGs...

Regards,


cmoa

Ok, just thought of something else.

How about the possibility of buying faction? Exactly like you can buy levels?

Have some npcs offering a wide variety of faction gains (I dunno, maybe in 1k, 2k, 3k or 5k increments?) against Sols?

Thunder Bluff npc could sell all Outland factions need by Horde, Darnassus guy could do the same for Allies - no confusion between the level-selling guys and the faction guys?

Maybe there could be a 5-10k faction point cap on all possible purchases (like there is a cap on hpw many levels you can buy)? Just to take away the obligation of soloing Shadow Labs 104 times for the last 5k faction needed at level 255?

With no available Heroic Mode in any instances, some faction quest lines not working and given the very low amount of faction given per kill, I'm just looking for a way to raid BT and such instead of wasting days of play time grinding meaningless instances...

Regards again,


cmoa

hmmm i like your second idea alot. it wouldnt take anything away, plus it would make solarians even more useful... thank you for your time and your posts.

~Darthas

PS Il bring this to the other staff's attention ASAP

Wow, I like the second idea.
Buying reputation for factions.
would be nice.

Would be nice if it could work for factions like Shattered Sun Offensive, etc, etc..

I can see buying rep for factions being doable. I'd rather not get into de-leveling chars tho. The most efficent method would be to have a quest NPC at GM Isle, with all factions having a single quest for sols. This is very similar to the existing cloth rep turn in already present in game at major cities.

we have something in the works that will give you rep for questing.

Would this function also allow getting reputation with the other faction?

dunno for you guys, but sols arent such a bad idea to .tradein for rep
but since sols are(or should be) used to .tradein for rep...we should get like 400 or 500 (max) per dunno..say 5 or 10 sols

we went with the .tradein of items because we wanted you to work for Rep, make you works for it abit more than just insta gratification. I mean it makes it unfare that ppl who donate can just trade there coins for Sols and have all the rep that someone who cant donate has to grind and work. So this way everyone is even and has to farm and work for it.