I am not all for the endless hours of grinding, but neither am I for the endless hours of leve party groups either. Look part of the reason for the "grind" is so that you can learn your job. You have the chance to play around with different methods of play. This way you don't have to learn your job at a crucial time like NM/instanced dungeons. Also lets be real here the vast majority of the players are really just a bunch of 50 noobs that got from 1-50 in less than a month by doing endless behest and leves without really learning their job effectively along the way. Proof of this would be according to the last Letter from the Producer only 280 people have gotten through the 45 dungeon. My guess is half of those people opted not to defeat Batraal. So I am not for the grind as it is a time sink, but the alternative is not that appealing either.