1.20a tomorrow :D

[Rowyne]

The majority of an average MMO players experience is end game. Most players spend 1% of there time leveling a character or class, and 99% of there time after that.

That's a random figure. Maybe that's how you play, but you have no way of knowing if that's accurate for the entire playerbase, let alone all MMO players. In fact, I knew many many people in FFXI that played constantly and never got to level cap, let alone set foot in the endgame arena. Even in WoW, the MMO that started the 'Life begins at endgame' mentality, gives you thousands of quests and dungeons for leveling content (which means they realize players want fun along the way). Yes, they focus heavily on endgame raiding. But that doesn't mean that's where everyone prefers to spend their time. In fact, a lot of people get burned out on endgame (myself included) and prefer to take a break and focus on other activities (including leveling alts). For me, the meat and potatoes really lies in questing and story, which this game is just too lean on.

The fact that you can literally level a class in 3 days with little effort (Not even being sarcastic) makes it hard to take anyone seriously who is max 25 in there highest class. Something anyone can literally do solo in an hour.

You literally have the equavalent of what someone can do in 1 day put into your character right now. That not only makes it hard to take anything you say about the gameplay seriously, but it makes it seem foolish to do so.

Actually, if you look at my history, you'll see I leveled my CNJ back when SP gains were based on contribution and were sporadic. Playing with my husband's PGL who jumped in and killed things quickly meant that he 'stole' all my SP and we always had to do an hour or two of extra grinding on top of a night of leves just so I could catch up to him.

I leveled my CNJ back when it was actually painful and took months.

In contrast, I leveled my THM after the changes and had WTF-face when it took me like three days. I would actually prefer some middle ground to the leveling curve as I think it's too fast now, but that's another topic altogether.

Then add in what the poster ahead of me pointed out, that you don't have a mellee leveled, they are all literally at 0 level, and you want to chime in on that aspect of gameplay, now your just making yourself look foolish.

Stood over my husband's shoulder and watched him, then jumped in and tried it myself. Both of us were sorely disappointed.

But if taking up a weapon on a few melee classes is what it takes to be taken seriously, I have no problem doing that. Still got a week and a half before I shelve this game for nine months.

you dont remember kilta! lol

/facepalm Oh, Gods, Kilta Firelotus. If nothing else, she gave people a place to focus their frustration. Yeah, at least I actually play. And I'm brave enough to post with my real character, not an alt, like some (*cough* Jennestia *cough*).