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Originally Posted by 'Naysayer',index.php?page=Thread&postID=109757#pos t109757
If I were a fresh nooby to the game and used RAF, I would have missed a lot of content from 1-60 that when I look back now as a veteran I wouldn't have wanted to miss. I think RAF hurts the game more than helps, but as a vet I can reroll any class I want to 60 in less than 20 hours played.
Back when EQ released Ruins of Kunark... ok, yea, I'm showing my age... but anyhow... they spent a HUGE amount of time making sure that old content didn't become trivial. They changed game mechanics to ensure that players higher than the old level cap couldn't take in old content, and honestly as a casual player of the day, that offended me greatly.
My guild was big, but not huge, and we didn't have enough people to down the red and white dragons... however with the 10 level boost it was going to be quite possible, perhaps even trivial to do so. Within a short time Verant spent the time to change the encounters, and my guild never got to see the old content...
Just because a guy levels RAF to 60 FAST with a vet doesn't mean that he can't go back on another alt later and see the content. The good thing is that blizzard has accepted that old content will be trivial, they are chosing to revamp SOME that was horribly underexposed, but as a whole they are focusing on new, rather than devoting resources to old... I think this is by far the best they could do.
As for supporting multiboxing at that high a level, I think thats great. As far as how far they'll support it? I believe they'll support it to the point of allowing it to exist. They aren't going to balance encounters around the idea of multiboxing, but they will not stop us from finding ways to beat them. Same with PVP, they'll design the games how they design them, some MB may excel at, others not so much...
