[2020] Questions and Answers from the Dauntless Design Lead

Originally posted by Swarzsinne

It's not a thing, and he did say tuning passes are needed first, but I genuinely hope they don't keep the possibility of XP boosts in mind when deciding on what a "fair" rate of leveling is.

Originally posted by Meirnon

If an XP boost happens, I'd rather see it as a purchaseable node late on the slayer's path than as something that's monetized.

If it has to be monetized, I'd like it to be low and shared with everyone in the same hunting grounds as you - something like 5%, so a maximum of 30% if all 6 players have it.

Originally posted by Jhairce

Hey Proteus. Really appreciate the info you give us.

I personally think the new EXP values are almost perfect. I honestly hope the next tuning pass on it makes the EXP gains from a behemoth 5 levels above you land at 250 experience.

To piggyback from these questions, I was wondering if "Double EXP weekends" or events of that sort are a possibility in this new world. It's highly likely that people would not want to miss that kinda opportunity.

Originally posted by Meirnon

Escalation Boosts are largely maligned due to how intrusively the game attempts to sell them to you, ephemeral durations shortened by counting down their duration regardless of whether or not you can utilize them, free boosts earned from the hunt pass disappearing from the your offers section of the store on season rollover, and general uselessness when you have your escalation at level 25, something you'd probably be able to do twice over by the time you finish grinding.

I would suggest being very, very careful about how you approach any XP/Economic boosts in MTX at the moment. Due to the way bounties are handled right now, particularly with the problem of free bounties vanishing on people after a season ends (which I sincerely hope you consider changing now that bounties fulfill an entirely different role in the game), and it would be fair for people to see this as you double-dipping the MTX progression sources in a system where even the single-dip is straining trust because of how it's working in practice, with people feeling shut out of reasonable progress or the promised "3-4 hour grind to 20" the moment they run out of bounties.

Take it with a grain of salt, but I'd rather see such bonuses attached to the Slayer's Path.

Originally posted by Manujiiva

An other way to get aetherheart beside reforging would appreciated, because right now i am not willing to reforge over and over again, i find it very annoying to nerf myself over and over again, making me quit the end game state along the way.

If reforge was like the vault coin system, it would have been more enjoyable: Once you hit level 20, you can reforge without losing power and resistance so you can stay in end game areas, you get an aetherheart, a reforge frame, empowered nodes and you can keep getting XP to get back to level 20, similar to how we can keep getting hunt pass XP to get vault coin after finishing the hunt pass.