Why do we never actually get stronger?

[DJ Deckard Cain]

Isn't it fun progressing in a game to never actually get stronger? I feel like I'm playing Destiny 2 all over again. You LOOK stronger, but you never actually GET stronger.

[Nobbler]

Equipment makes your character stronger. I suggest you read the game description again, and review the gameplay hints if you don't understand how to progress. It is linear, and it is not an xp grind.

[kongkim]

Don't get way you feel that?

[Suzaku]

Improve your gear and head back to a lower level area. Watch as everything melts in an instant. Turns out you're stronger.

[darius404]

I'd say getting way more abilities than enemies, and being able to enhance them, is as important or more than gear alone. This is a way of getting stronger that npc enemies don't have. You can tailor your approach to specific encounters, making them harder or easier depending on your tactics.

[RahKiel]

Because you cannot possibly hope to be able to faceroll anything at your level.

You can still get back in previous area to wipe anything living (or unliving)

[Mancerous]

I feel like V bloods could give a small boost to stats the first time you collect one. Nothing crazy, don't need to end up like you're on a 5x stat server by the end.

[Tanyon]

What are you talking about?? I'm lvl 62.. I one shot mots things in the starting area.. second area 2 maybe 3 hits.. not sure what game you are playing but you do get a hell of a lot stronger.

[Fauxsteel]

I don't need to get stronger when I start the game overtuned.

[DJ Deckard Cain]

Imagine not understanding what's being stated and still commenting. Yikes.

[Suzaku]

Welcome to gear-based RPGs. Everyone else gets it. You don't.

Yikes.

[Wafflebutt]

Pretty sure my greatsword begs to differ...
1 shotting lvl 40 mobs. Yeah pretty sure i could do that at lvl 40 aswell.
Oh wait I couldnt!?

[Leiraion]

Originally posted by DJ Deckard Cain:

Imagine not understanding what's being stated and still commenting. Yikes.

I think people understand just fine, you're super vague posting which makes it seem like you are just trying to stir the pot...

Sure, as you progress through the game the enemies also get stronger (because you are going to higher areas)... but the ones in the previous areas do not. If you ever backtrack you'll notice a very large difference.
Even in end-game, once you are crafting the sanguine+ weapons and the Bloodmoon armor... you're quite strong.
I definitely couldn't land in the middle of Brighthaven when I first got there and take on the entire town.

If you aren't feeling like you are growing in power... maybe you need to start trying out augmenting your spells (or trying different spells) or maybe even start using some alchemy.

[Dollop of Mayo]

Originally posted by DJ Deckard Cain:

Imagine not understanding what's being stated and still commenting. Yikes.

Please, then. Explain what you mean by "get stronger" for those less erudite than yourself.

[Harris]

Originally posted by DJ Deckard Cain:

Imagine not understanding what's being stated and still commenting. Yikes.

I am going to dillute all the ridiculous comments here a little bit and say that you're absolutely right. There is no feeling of getting stronger in V Rising as you progress, because there isn't any proper progression to begin with. Give any newbie Bloodmoon gear and he's suddenly a level 80 character, wow. It is comical to see "RPG" being brought up in this thread at all.

The argument of "head back to a lower level area" is nonsensical because there's literally nothing to do there once you've beaten the local bosses. Their skills are sidegrades for the most part, until the endgame ones. There are no classes, there are no builds, there are only a few meta weapons and skills that are objectively better than everything else which everyone uses.

On the whole, it leads to your vampire experience being the very opposite of power fantasy - between the enemies, the sun, silver, garlic, holy radiation, not to mention other players. As a result you are feeling weak and vulnerable from start to end. And I honestly can see how people might find that unappealing.

It's not a coincidence you brought up Destiny 2, because V Rising has a soul of a competitive PvP game and every single design decision was made from that perspective. It would be a wholly different game if it was envisioned as a single player RPG.

[Lil'Will FatBalls]

Basically you don't progress to much in power. Of course, if you backtrack to the early game maps and things like that you'll feel like a god, almost, but when you reach iLv 85, anything 56+ can kill you easily as you were iLv 56.

But sometimes you can feel some diference like in killing some vBosses more easily (iLv 70 vBosses).

And yeah, this game feels like playing Destiny 2 or any other "RPG" that you need gear to level up and not EXP. And this game feels even worst sometimes cuz, me atleast, can make a fullrun in like 13hours or less (including relics)