Is the Leveling Mechanic Forced Here?

[Megiddo]

Good day! I'm looking for new realms to explore and adventure in. I'm hoping to avoid places where my characters are all going to end up being completely overleveled and in godmode for almost all of the content that they are doing, however. Is leveling a forced mechanic here or is it optional? Will I be able to level at my own pace?

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

there is no real overleveling here lvl is very much nothing (still need the Lvl to wear the equipment) the thing that defines what you can do is Quest progress, equipment, bought skillbooks and more so you almost never outlevel the high end gameplay but quest bosses are very easy by default

[Vintorez]

Strange desire but your capability tends to be more determined by your equipment than your level.

[Grumpy Old Gamer]

It uses skill progression. I.e. the skills you use level up from using them. So if you never cook your cooking skill will stay at 1 forever.

[Tomcat]

I know exactly what you mean... alot of other mmos are just combat only so you will get that.


In RS, the tough mobs are kinda spread all over the place. You can actually choose to just play a skiller pacifist and you should be generally safe.

[kalistrea]

Just get a 50-tier equipment setup, and it's super easy to level up at AOE mobs. 300-600k xp an hour can keep you at lvl 50–60 mobs for ever grinding xp. like ankous or abbys. Once you upgrade necro gears to 60+, you can passively level up. At 60+, you can farm a lot of ectoplasm, but it's not really needed after you unlock AOE skill rotations. Runes are more needed.

As for leveling at your own pace and content, if you want to do quests, even for the new update, you are required to do a lot of stuff, and quests as well. But super fast for all skills, such as for easy godmode? There is no god mode in RS3, unlike OSRS, and it will become more difficult to fight higher-end stuff if not a shiz ton of time or money is spent on the game.
Again, it's easy to level skills in RS3 and there's a ton of lore to do without much time spent learning skills.
If you're wondering about a new Necro skill, then 32 Slayer is required, among other skill levels needed for completing its story lines.

[RandomTurtle]

Your XP and levels will only go up. However that said most of the content worth doing you can't be overlevelled for. On top of that if you're starting fresh and say for example wanted to do some quests, you can train so you only just meet the requirements.

Sure if you're a maxed account and doing beginner quests you'll feel overpowered. But there's also a lot of the more recent content which is geared to max level players drinks a potion that gives them +21 to their combat stats. So for older content you can easily choose to not drink that potion.

There is also like others have said, different gear you can equip, so you can always use lower level gear. If you wanted to you could choose not to use prayers/curses when fighting some enemies.

A lot of what makes the character powerful is about what they obtained, not what level they are.

[Glimmer]

You're playing the wrong game if you don't want to level up and hope to do all content at a low level...

[Valenforth]

Join a Roleplaying server , its fun you do what you want and people talk

[Recon]

Your character is going to be overleveled for most of your experience.
Jagex did not properly scale old content to "Evolution of Combat" so until you get into New quests you'll feel really really really op.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by Recon:

Your character is going to be overleveled for most of your experience.
Jagex did not properly scale old content to "Evolution of Combat" so until you get into New quests you'll feel really really really op.

They addressed this to a degree with the recent release of Necromancy. Lower level monsters have much more HP now.

[Yournewstepmom]

Originally posted by Megiddo:

Good day! I'm looking for new realms to explore and adventure in. I'm hoping to avoid places where my characters are all going to end up being completely overleveled and in godmode for almost all of the content that they are doing, however. Is leveling a forced mechanic here or is it optional? Will I be able to level at my own pace?

I think most here don't understand your question when you ask "I'm hoping to avoid places where my characters are all going to end up being completely overleveled and in godmode. If you're looking for a challenge in Runescape you could try a mode called Ironman or Hardcore Ironman which blocks you from most player interaction and forces you to get items on your own by drops.
But to expand on what I think you mean:
Levels are linked to Quests which are linked to rewards. Ultimately endgame content requires you to do a certain amount of leveling but there's nothing forcing you from, say, Firemaking. There's some quests that have a gate-keep requirement and Firemaking does have HP regenerative bonuses but it's not necessary.
When you say level your characters this game doesn't use the same system most others do. It will be a brand new character with a brand new password. Not so much an account with 'many characters' you can create.
Runescape is very vague in how it treats it's players assuming they have some knowledge of what to do and when. The wiki is updated frequently because of this unlike a wiki on the lines of ffxiv. On that note I'd also try ffxiv.
Hope you find what you're looking for.