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I'm Talen! I make videos and articles and games and graphic designs and guides and messes and encouragement. Chances are you can find anything I do on my blog. I like it when you comment on my things, so please do!
one of the changes in the new page for homecoming is that exploration badges no longer award a small (1k?) chunk of xp, but instead offer a significant quantity of patrol XP. Patrol XP means that the next XP you earn is doubled, until you run out of XP. So it's like banking a bunch of double-speak XP levelling.
I like to pick up the exploration badges once I hit 50 because they're merits and they also give me time to think about the character and diminish how much the character looks like an AE baby. Also time to give my bids on the auction house to percolate
I also tend to only level a character who's 50 after they have a whole level's worth of rested XP. Just makes it feel a little faster. But what I found this weekend is that it's very, very easy for a character to get six veteran levels just as part of the durdle-around, take-exploration-badges, then take a break to level for a bit. 15 minutes of exploration badges, and 15 minutes of missions and so on.
Pretty convenient!
I was not expecting this! I was not expecting to get two Homecoming updates this year, which may sound a little sarcastic but please remember Homecoming is a free game maintained by fans for the love of it, so the updates (known as 'Pages') are things I try not to expect. I'm a super-invested player, with a huge cast of characters all at the level cap, so I try not to get involved in beta discussions of how the game 'should' be — I know that my experience is extremely atypical to most players. That means that new pages arrive in my life like a delightful little fairy sprinkling dust.
This page was definitely lots of little stuff but not lots of #content, so I'm going to run through what it is and what it means, to me, and why you might care about it.