mirmidion.4567

Alright. I appreciate the replies. I’ll stop overthinking it and just keep knocking the zones out as I see fit regardless of my level. Thanks.

Hello. I recently bought the three-pack to come back to game. I played the game briefly at launch, but it didn't last. My question is regarding experience gain. The amount of experience I'm earning is insane. I know the game scales and so on and so forth, but it feels really weird having just made a character this afternoon playing through the level 10 personal story quest and be level 18 now doing level 7 hearts. The other night I had tried making a different character and was playing with a friend. She was leveling at a rate much slower than me, and we had both made new characters together. After the intro she was 2, I was 4. By the time we got to the dam in Queensdale I was 6 and she was 4. After doing our personal stories at 10 it was even more apparent. I was in my teens she was around level twelve. We were doing the same hearts/events and yet I was always multiple levels ahead. I had read on reddit that they apparently are tweaking experience gain on new accounts to test for the Steam release later this year, but I kind of wish I could opt out of this constant double exp gain. I came back to the game to explore and take my time with zones and not rush to endgame, and it currently feels like the game wants nothing more than for me to be level 80 by the time I'm done clearing my fourth zone (I'm guessing, maybe it'll take more than that, but I'm almost a quarter of the way through the levels and have played for about 2 hours and still have over half the first zone to complete). Should this bother me? Am I just stuck in the mindset of other MMOs? Am I supposed to hit 80 and just keep chugging along in what will most likely be a level 40 or 50 zone? Or am I supposed to drop everything and do the story, but if my character has only been to a few zones-the story will most likely pull me into areas it's assumed I've already unlocked but haven't thanks to the crazy exp gain. I don't know. I don't want to make a ton of alts, and just wanted to immerse myself in this game on a main character, but I don't want to miss something or somehow "mess up" the progression of my character because of this. I like fully exploring a zone and completing it, but it feels like I'm supposed to just get to the cap of that zone and rush to the next. Otherwise, I'll grossly out level everything. Is this just the way it is? And if so, am I just supposed to progress zone by zone? How do I know when it's time to progress the story if I've already capped before the next level gate etc? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you.