#Skyrim weapon level scaling update

If you want to table helping a living god to play Batman with a dude in scarlet armor, Elder Scrolls Online is more than willing to let you do that.

Sure, Morrowind has you working for the god Vivec to determine who's stealing his power, but that primary expansion quest is one that can be dropped at any point to focus on whatever smaller tales draw your fancy. Instead of one overarching story, Elder Scrolls Online relies on multiple smaller stories. There's a certain amount of safety in that. The team at Square Enix can create content knowing that you're well-versed in concepts like the Primals, Beast Tribes, and the Garlean Empire, and characters like Cid, Minfilia, Thancred, and Yugiri. This will be true for Stormblood as well, forcing many players to rush through any lingering story quests - or pay up - before the new expansion launches next week. You can't play Heavensward until you finish all of the story quests for A Realm Reborn, which includes many of the MMO's dungeons and primal fights. In the case of the fairly strict Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix knows exactly how much of the game's story you've completed. Static level ranges allow for developer control a developer can differentiate the type of quests and monsters it allows at specific levels, with the understanding that a level 50 can survive more complex mechanics than a level 10. There's a linear story that the developer is telling, some times across multiple years, and there's no way you're skipping it. You may occasionally have a multiple branches available, but that's the only option.

If you're a human in World of Warcraft, you've likely gone from Elwynn Forest, to Westfall, to Redridge Mountains, to Duskwood, and on. Generally, MMO expansions require you to have completed previous content. The magical part of the level scaling mechanic is it means players can jump right into Morrowind from the beginning. Every weapon you get is meant for someone at your level of strength. If a monster is meant to be difficult, that difficulty is largely fixed. All content in Elder Scrolls Online now scales with the player: quests, monsters, world bosses, and rewards. One of the changes that made Morrowind so enjoyable was the new level-scaling mechanic.

#Skyrim weapon level scaling update

This week, Zenimax Online launched Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, which builds on a number of changes the developer made to its MMO with the One Tamriel update last year. Developers build zones for players of a specific level range and while they're in that level range, they're funnelled through a somewhat linear experience. You do things to gain experience, which feeds into an overall character level, which determines where you can go into the world. Many have been based around the model established by Everquest and later perfected by Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft. For a long time, progression in massively-multiplayer online role-playing games has been gated.