Conflicting information from the AMA

[Oqua]

There will not be a complete wipe at launch, but we will be wiping some aspects of your characters including but not limited to: items, currency, NPC favor levels, and favor-quests. That said, we don't plan on wiping most skill levels. -Ryan


Can I get a little more information on this? there was no follow up on the AMA. My understanding was that there would be ZERO skill wipe with the release. It was the single biggest piece of information that I used to decide to wait for the full release or to experience the beta. Would it be possible to expand on this as my reading would suggest that you A: Have a plan in place and B: have decided at some point to expand the wipe to include some amount of skills.

Both of A and B give me pause when it comes to my play experience. It may be my "entertainment" but my experiences would feel quite trivialized if my skill levels were wiped after I was informed that there would be no skill wipe. I can understand things change however I feel that some more information would go a long way to helping people understand the situation as it is, and is likely to be at the wipe.

Speaking personally if there is going to be some skill wipe between "some" to "all" or even "Most" I would not have chosen to act would be waiting for the open release.

TLDR: no skill wipe became ""we don't plan on wiping most skill levels"" If you had swapped no skill wipe and ""we don't plan on wiping most skill levels"" at my time of entrance to PG I would have waited for full release.