Why max level 20...?

Why 20? I just realized the true conceptually beauty of it. Have you ever read a book, or watched a movie, and hated to finish it because you wanted the story to keep going?

Well I see it much the same in GW. If you reached max level after completing everything in the game, that would be it…nothing left …But as it is currently set up, you progress to level 20 and then you get to keep going. The story isn’t over.

How many other video games seem to end after you have built your guy to the peak of his game? Don’t you want to keep playing that uber character? Well in a way that’s what GW gives us. Granted this is only truly played out will in Prophesies, but nothing is perfect.

I understand there will be many people that will rip this all apart, but it won’t matter because it is true to me.

Heh, if you think your character is perfect when it reaches level 20 then you still have a lot to play and learn about this beautiful game.

this has been discussed over...and over...and over...and over.....and over.....

1....2.....3...closed

Where's that dead horse photo?

Level doesn't matter, yada yada...

Not perfect. More that the first 19 levels are the build up to the point that you are no longer growing, but that you now are refining and tweaking.

But yeah I guess this is an 'old' topic. But the actualization is new to me. Neener, neener neener.



EDIT: As well I find it awesome that most are not even reading my original post!

The other answer is... "just because". If they had made it 10 or 50, people would ask "Why 10 or 50?".

The main purpose is to give a good baseline for balancing skills from.

I can honestly say that I didn't realize the full ramification of the title of the thread. As well this is the perfect example of how MANY people simply reply based upon the title and never read a word of the original post.

What a great social experiement I accidentially created....

That's because there was a disparity between your content and the title. Your title is a question, but your content did not address it.

I agree - the Level 20 cap is one of the main reasons I continue to play the game PvE-wise. Otherwise, I would've bailed for an exponentially expanding MMO like WoW long ago.

...and honestly, the level 20 cap is mandatory for PvE characters to play in PvP, which is one of the core strengths of Guild Wars.

he is not asking for more levels he is saying what we have is good not bad.

at least i can read the first post

Don't beat an ancient dead horse.