Guild Wars 2

so everyone knows we will soon be able to lvl up to 90 or even higher, how will this affect our armor, will lvl 80 remain the highest level for armor? and how about ascended jewelry, will we need to get new, lvl 90 ones of those?

source?
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Exactly,I don’t recall Anet mention level cap raise anytime soon

If they ever increase the level cap, of course they would add new gear for that level cap. That would be the whole point of increasing it. Also, if nothing was changed, a level 90 in old 80 gear would be a power decrease due to scaling.

They have no plans in raising the level cap, according to Chris Whiteside (was talking to him in game in LA), and between him and Colin and Mike O’Brien, that’d be the people who would make those kinds of decisions for the future direction of the game.

Guild Wars 1 had a level 20 cap for its entire history and still does, Guild Wars showed that you can add all the benefits of new content, skills, classes, gear, story based missions, dungeons, all without increasing the level cap and making peoples’ prior gear obsolete. I would expect Guild Wars 2 being capable of demonstrating the same things.

If and when we get an expansion, expect new elite skills, new utilities/heals, new weapons (some classes getting access to weapons they did not have before, like maybe Engineers getting hammers, but also some entirely new weapons with entirely new skills), maybe new races, new lands, new dungeons, a new personal/living story, and maybe new classes, but don’t necessarily expect a level cap increase.

I sure hope there’s not one. It’d be refreshing in the face of other MMO’s making you scrap your gear and restart from scratch every year.

They can start adding modifiers and balancers to gear.
Good for min/maxing along different paths, but won’t result in stat inflation.

eg.
Increased Skill Recharge Rate + Decreased Power.
Increased Block Duration + Decreased Toughness.
Built-In Retaliation + Decreased Health.

Those are just really quick ones. I’m not giving it much thought. But just want to convey the idea.

Troll thread? I certainly don’t know that they intend to raise the level cap. It has been discussed as a possibility. Personally, I believe it would be a misstep comparable to the Lost Souls (sic) misstep. It’s entirely within the realm of possibility, but the misstep hasn’t been confirmed.

renss.5764:

so everyone knows we will soon be able to lvl up to 90 or even higher

[Citation Needed]

I mean, that would be a pretty phenomenally stupid decision, so let’s see some sources.

Raine.1394:

Troll thread?

Bingo

renss.5764:

so everyone knows we will soon be able to lvl up to 90 or even higher, how will this affect our armor, will lvl 80 remain the highest level for armor? and how about ascended jewelry, will we need to get new, lvl 90 ones of those?

No, everyone does not know that.

And the level cap will not be raised, obviously.

its defenitly not a troll thread, i read this in the online blog about queens jubilion and the plans for gw2 in 2013, they said 10 more extra trait points with this i also thought i read something about higher lvling cap but im not sure since i cant find the thread anymore. and how else do we get more traits?

They never said more trait points.
They said we would be getting new skills and traits.

Information that is not coming from ArenaNet should be taken with a grain of sand, since in most cases they are simply speculation.

They aren’t raising the level cap. Reason:

PvP is balanced around base stats and added stats from amulets which are also balanced. If they were to increase the level cap, all base stats would increase (and scale differently depending on class), making it even more of a nightmare balancing PvP. They’d essentially be starting from square one.