Give us less skill points to start each season with + no mount

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  1. Why do we start with 10 skill points? Its a lvl 1 char. How about starting with… 1 skill point so we can actually use basic skills and new players get familiar with them. Leveling is so fast in this game anyway.

  2. Having a mount at lvl 1 just feels bad. Make the mount accesible later in the leveling process (leveling process is extremely fast either way…)

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You get your skill points from renown rewards, that carry over, because people don’t want to farm renown from scratch each season.

You get your mount from the beginning because it’s a accountwide unlock tied to the campaign. For most people the campaign is a one time thing, maybe a second playthrough down the line to refresh the memories, it’s certainly not something people wanna feel forced into every time they make a new character, in order to get their mount. These are quality of life improvements made based on community feedback.

Here is the good news though. You don’t have to use either the skill points or the mount right from the beginning if you don’t want to, just ignore their existence untill you deem yourself worthy of them. This way people who wants their renown rewards and mount from the start can do that, and you can decide for yourself when you want to use them, everybody wins.

There is no reason to take away quality of life mechanics from those who enjoy them, when you yourself is in full control of wether or not you want to make use of them.

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Thanks for clarifying the history of why we have these things. The post was not about why we have them. Its my feedback on that we shouldnt have them. I believe the game is too fast as it is. I prefer a more slow and methodic game pace.

You can also have QoL where you get all the loot mailed to you so you dont have to play the game - By extending your logic this seems like something for you :)?

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Well to be fair, you did start the post with “why do we…” so forgive me for answering your question. Your history with the game wasn’t exactly included in the post.

That’s not extending logic, it’s twisting it. I gave you a perfectly reasonable solution to your problem, that works in everyone’s interest, without taking anything away from anyone.

How about we talk about reason instead of logic. Do you really think it’s a reasonable request to want to force everyone into slogging through half the campaign + god knows how many side quests, altars of Lilith, ect. every single season, Just to achieve what exactly? A slower leveling process?

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I’m not sure if you are sarcastic or serious.

I would advise we remove the skillpoints. At all.
Cut the mount.
Start with max 50% HP.
Cut off a leg.
And make it hardcore mode on death until level 30.

Does that solve all your problems?

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If u want slower leveling then play the non-camPAINgn skip season mode xD enjoy! xd

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Well, with the changes to the next season journey (or whatever that new name is) and the renown system for seasonal play, we’ll start our first seasonal character with no additional skill point and unlock them along the way (which our additional characters will benefit from). I have no idea about the mount, however, but I would prefer they kept it exactly as it is. I don’t mind not having a tremendous amount of skills at lvl 1 which made early levels totally irrelevant, but the mount is convenient while leveling. There’s no reason to both make leveling and our movement speed slower.

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