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[[Skills]]. With just 60 skill points (plus some from quest rewards?) the game can be balanced to make each Skill point feel valuable. With more skill points they must be balanced to do less each, or else characters would become overpowered. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-iiis-maximum-level-announced-60/] Plus the higher level skill points will still be and feel valuable in D3, rather than just adding .2% to some passive skill, or to a 3rd or 4th synergy skill, as they did in D2.
* The same principle applies to [[trait]] points, naturally.
The devs feel they can offer better status signals ([[epeen]]!) than Clvl 99 provided in D2. [[Bashiok]] elaborated on that in April 2011.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blue-on-max-clvl-60-arguments/]
<blue>We can have long term status symbols people can go for that are extremely visual, show to others the effort you’ve put in, but not attach that to something like a character level. Along with artisans, achievements, gems, runestones, and all the other various character customization progressions, we still have some surprises left in store on this front.</blue>
Characters do not feel "finished" when they reach Clvl 60.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/more-clvl-60-replies-and-debate/] In D2, players tended not to play characters anymore once they'd reached the highest level. Most players were bored of that char by then, after all the grinding, and it seemed pointless to play when you were not gaining experience. This is not at all the case in WoW, where characters reach the maximum level before finishing all the content, and are then still played to [[raid]] the hardest dungeons, looking for top items. In WoW (and some other RPGs) characters essentially *have* to be max level to handle the hardest dungeons. This might be what the D3 team is planning; end game dungeons that are only doable for expert players with very powerful characters, who would have fun and item hunt and earn achievements by doing them.
==More Levels Just for Fun?==
