Yoshi-P said a casual player should get to 50 at 2-3 months. But in no way put a limit on how fast those hardcore players should level up. I don't think pl'ing is an issue of how fast people level up at all, I mean sure its a problem, but think about this there's like 5 things of content to do at that level, those people who got pl'd to 50 are basically going to quit. I personally know people right now that were pl'd 1-40, then still tried to multi-box the rest. That person will never be a legit player, I don't even know why they rush levels to play content they can't play because they're EFFING DUMB AS SH!$, true story. The person I knew who pl'd there character had no clue they should do leves or that was a leveling method. They didn't know what guildmarks were. Like seriously who wants to play with a level 50 conj that doesn't have fast cast and some defense while casting and maybe transcendence, and thm's too think about it. I don't play melée so I wouldn't know what makes you gimp there, but I'm sure you their just as gimped.

I don't believe that pl'ing is hurting the game, but what I do believe is that its hurting the community. You could say the game is affected by the community, and yes that's true, but that's a 2nd causal link you have to make after the pling issue. No one reallys like pl'ing unless their doing it. So we just need to tell the devs "we don't like pling, on a personal level it makes us sick to play with people who have been pl'd they are _____ and the practice is ______" instead people are like "oh pl'ing effects this and that and this and those and these" and no it really doesn't. We just don't like it, and that is it. There is nothing wrong with not liking it, we should just stop covering it up with logical fallacies.