Here’s an interesting litmus test for those trying to say that leveling thralls needs to stay in some form as a bit of a ‘challenge’. Pick your favorite method of leveling thralls. The one you would use if you had around 20 thralls to level in a weekend.

Now take the thrall out of the equation. Now take the experience gained out. Now take any potential loot or treasure out. Would you still engage in that method for the fun of it? Is it something you could login and do right now without any reward?

If the answer is no, then you too have an issue with leveling thralls. The ‘challenge’ in a game should NEVER being doing something that is unfun, in order to do the fun parts. You don’t wait to play the game.

And yes I understand this can apply to many parts of the game and those are their own topics.

The issue with leveling thralls is that it is simply time. Time you MUST take. Let’s face it, for many thralls being level 0 is a vulnerability. Its not a matter of if they will die and need replacing, but when. Your goal is to get them somewhat leveled up so they can simply survive. Using a level 0 thrall in normal activities is never a great idea.

What I think they should probably do (and this is one of the ideas I’ve considered) is the thralls should only have three levels. These three levels take as long to obtain as the 20 levels typically gained or even longer. The tradeoff here is the attributes normally gained from leveling the thrall simply starts with. Instead of gaining new attributes per level, they gain a perk. So they still get their three perks.

What this would achieve is those who still want to grind their thralls can still do so. Those who don’t want to grind dozens of thralls won’t feel like they ‘have’ to. The thrall will have the health and attributes to be useable right out of the gate. But those who do level their thralls, those thralls will have an edge.

But now you have a system where broken thralls are more or less useable as soon as they are placed for whatever content their tier and ability is normally rated for without some arbitrary grind phase.

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