Re: Discussion: Meditating on the near future
Reply #31 –
For the rest, the game will mostly be the same.
So imagine how long you would think a spell should take to level up in the old meta, and we can start from there.
You mean the meta where I had to level up 10 magic schools and corresponding support skills, and some 40 spells to be considered as a viable mage? Also, you mentioned that spells, abilities, and attribute scores will be frontloaded rather than scaling linearly, and haven't yet made any concrete decision as far as spell distribution for the magic school progression (ie. will we need to level up school to 80+ before getting access to more powerful spells?) And lastly- are you going to follow the same non-linear spell aoe size progression, where you get rewarded for reaching the 25,50,75 milestones?
Assuming old meta, I don't think it should take more than 3 months to get your spells, schools, supporting abilities to 90%, and attributes to 70%. Let's assume 1 month for attributes to 70% and 2 months for schools to 90%, this leaves us with approximately 18 hours per spell/ability/school to reach 90%.
Somehow I doubt that this old meta calculation will fit in within your new design.