Is epic adding to much levels in so little time?

[TheGoldenBird]

In the start of Epic, it was 4 levels monthly
Then it stopped at level 50 for a year
Then increased by 5 every 2-3 months
Now, it’s like 10 levels per Month!
With enchanting and mastery, this is getting annoying
Let’s hope they eventually stop at a level for a bit so we can catch up because this is too quick

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[Sutekh137]

@epicpizza

I think it is more like every six months or something that they are raising the experience and mastery levels by 10.

Yes, I think it is too much, but only because it is the only thing they are really enhancing. A perfect case-in-point of how what they are adding is really just smoke and mirrors is this new Ancient Relic thingie. Just another way of grinding out new gear by sacrificing the old, not via actual new gameplay.

A couple new Caves are nice (and the first one is easy — I am two-birding it!), but all other “enhancements” to Epic have been bureaucratic in nature — just more to grind.

There are plenty of folks who like that, though, and actually would have left without these “things to do” added every chunk of months.

Thanks,
sutekh137

[burbman]

Last increase from 60-70 was in November of 2016, Increase before that 50-60 was May of 2016. Not every month, every six months. That said, with the way island levels increase in difficulty with player level, some newer players may never make it to the caves. Can you imagine playing a level 80 Wizpig castle?

[Dahnlor]

I’m not exactly certain when it changed, but the castles are now all at fixed levels, and much lower than the max player level. To make sure it hasn’t changed with the latest update, I went to Wizpig Castle and beat it in one round for each wave.

My complaint with the level increases is that each time it happens I’m getting really close to maxing out the mastery for all of my birds, and looking forward to taking it easy on the game for the next few events. But NOOO, they have to go and raise the level and now I have to go balls-out to get as much mastery as I can YET AGAIN.

[lazycat]

@dahnlor I am with you. I am still working on leveling my birds’ classes to max. And all the suddenly they change max level from 70 to 80. I had a feeling that they increased mastery for each level so after 50 each level needs 10K+ mastery to level up. I am really tired of grinding mastery.

[burbman]

@dahnlor – Castles (and all island levels) are fixed at the level your team was at when you first defeated it (different for each player). Those of us who played through long ago see levels in the teens and twenties. New players are not reaching KPC or Wizpig’s castle until they are well into the 50’s and 60’s. Much harder to complete.

[TheGoldenBird]

They should just go to 100 and stop there for at least a several months to let us catch up

[Sutekh137]

@epicpizza

They do wait six months for just ten levels, so if they went to 100 from 70 you would want them to wait…18 months?

To me the issue isn’t with updates, it is WHAT they are updating. Raising caps is not equivalent to enhancing gameplay. In fact, I see it as the antithesis to that (though it does keep people lingering).

According to @burbman, you can get all your birds from 70 to 80 in 10-15 weeks, and I have no reason to doubt him. You just need to grind in the Caves and hit the Dojo as much as possible, as well as trying to get dribs and drabs of mastery from events. I figure it will take me 3-4 months of grinding, if I decide to bother. I might just raise my favorite classes for each bird, which for me are Paladin, Bard, Spies, Wizard, and Seadog. Just wished they would release elites for Wizard and Spies, but no luck so far.

Thanks,
sutekh137

[Gabee1611]

I would rather them just add level 100 and cap it there forever. They could release caves whenever they wanted. At least that way, our weapons would’t be made obsolete 2 more times.

I would rather have a end goal set. I hate the way Rovio constantly moves the goal posts back every 6 months.