Worried about where the game is going

[BobbinT]

Yeah you can do that now, not when the game came out. And that is when you should compare the leveling. Use your brain.

Alright, here's one for you:

Back in 1.0, capping a class from fresh to cap takes roughly a month and maybe more. 1st 10 levels were soloing on mobs, then I grind with leves for days till I hit around level 20ish. Then I shouted in Uldah for parties, then we're hitting places like spiders, skellies, lala assassins, ants, and so on. Any mob that max 6 level above our current levels. Sometimes when several people left, we had to lower our mob level target, like 4-5 level ahead of us. After lvl 40ish, we do raptors a lot, and about last few levels till capped, we found good spot on most eastern edge of La Noscea where there's these murderous level 50 rats. And getting to that spot is also a challenge since there's like level 60 or 70 giant toad that can kill us in 2 hits.

And that's when I joined the game after Yoshi took over. Heard it was even worse before with fatigue system.

How's that, genius?

Oh... and don't think I don't know that back when XI released, 1 job can take months and I think averagely took like half year to cap it. And with that huge risk of level down by getting your crap beaten flat.

My post earlier are for comparison against current way of grinding levels, not comparing how each games does with it on their early releases.