It's time for preleveled/preascended characters to enter the shop or be made available somehow.

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RogueMage wrote:

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Albinosaurus wrote:

I'd pay about $30 for the option to have any new character I make start in Act 1 Merc, level 60, no gear, and select the first 2 bandit rewards.

Why? The game doesn't start until this point anyway, and it's really tiresome to do over and over when all I want to do is play new/different builds--not grinding fkn levels all days to get to where the game becomes playable.

Same here, I've invested thousands of hours collecting gear and leveling Masters in Standard since Closed Beta. My legacy characters are all stuck in their mid-80's because red maps never drop. I have zero interest in slagging through Normal and Cruel Prophecy with impoverished characters that will just get dumped back into Standard in a few months anyway.

And no one really cares what happens in Standard, right?

So make MTX purchases of level-60 Merciless characters available in Standard only. Races and challenge leagues remain pure, everyone gets what they want, and GGG makes well-earned profit.

For temp leagues, just require a person to reach level 80 and kill Malachai on Merc with at least one character to unlock the benefit. It keeps the purity of race and progression for a fresh league, but still lets people play how they want instead of slogging through two pointless difficulties each time.

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Thinking on it some more, I think the only modes where this kind of thing would go completely against the game are in actual race events and hardcore. For softcore Standard and temp leagues, it shouldn't be an issue, given the above condition.

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I_NO wrote:

No.

$20 for a starter pack of T7 maps, because that damn slogging through T1 - T6
$50 for a pack of T15 pre-rolled with packsize, no TC & reflect
$70 for ten Uber Atziri sets

Why not? It's just a convenience on saving time with boring shit. /s

False Equivalence, much?

Something like this would literally never happen in PoE. Not really much point in discussing.

bored, Pyro?

@goetzjam

You're probably right, but there's no harm in it either.

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IceDeal wrote:

Go back to WoW.

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johnKeys wrote:

bored, Pyro?

He is actually, for quite a few reasons, and honestly its justified. He also occasionally likes to feed from the forum responses.

Ive made a similar suggestion in the past


I completely disagree on the paying aspect of the OP suggestion. But i completely agree on the rest. Especially if the waiting period is 3 weeks and there are some other requirements (as those i mentioned in the spoiler) then the idea could be useful without being broken.

I agree, Regulator, and I'm not saying it has to be a paid feature, but if that's what it takes for GGG to implement it, I'd be willing as long as the price wasn't too high. That's why I said ~$30 would be the upper limit for this feature, and it would have to be for all new characters I make--not $30 per character. Otherwise it just ends up as a great feature trapped behind a sh** model, and nobody wants that. As an added perk, this would incentivize buying up character slots too, because it wouldn't be so time consuming to get characters to a point that you actually want to keep them, so those rosters would fill up faster.

The goal of this feature is not to give people a way to cheat fresh season progression, Hardcore, or races. Nor is it to nullify end game. It's only goal is for people who like to play/experiment with a wide variety of builds to do so in a way that doesn't bore them away from the game altogether. Speaking from experience, this is the number one reason I ever stop playing this game for whole seasons at a time. The "Grind" in "Grinding Gear Games" should not be a tedious/boring leveling process, but the progression and acquisition involved with end-game content, because the entire game (and economy) is balanced around this. There isn't a real point to anything before maps, if we're being completely honest, but starting from Act 1 Merc still provides that new character feel that so many of us appreciate, so it's a fair compromise.