Quote Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX View Post
Leveling is terrible as it is now. Getting from 1-25 is a gigantic pain in the arse that consists of literally nothing but grind. It's quite frankly ridiculous and the reason many of my friends have refused to get past level 10. I mean level 1 to 10 can be done in 3 hours solo; easy, no problem, without using any leves. But then you get to 10, 11, and 12 and suddenly progression hits a brick wall. You're SOL if you don't have 3+ people to be on to party grind with you or if you don't have hours to spend just grinding away with leves and ... literal grinding.
This is less about the amount of time it takes to level and more about the lack of content to hide the grind. Many years ago players would just grit their teeth and grind away because that's all they knew. Then mission/quest-based leveling came in and suddenly the leveling experience did not have to be a grind; at least, not one that bored you to tears in repetitiveness.

You can shoot down quests as being fetch errands or kill X amount of mobs, but when you have to choose between sitting in one camp killing mobs in one mob at a time, running around one camp spamming the same four levels over and over, and helping the Knights of the Ebon Blade take over the Shadow Vault and partake in sabotage operations against the undead scourge...