Quote Originally Posted by Haibel View Post
The Grind is not the Levels. The grind is gear. GET IT IN YOUR HEAD.
This is it exactly. There seem to be a lot of people clinging to the idea that leveling is a meaningful part of the game when it just isn't. In a perfect world we'd have a meatier leveling system AND a good endgame gear situation but they had limited resources and had to decide what to work on and the leveling system lost out. We can cry about it but I think most people agree with the decision they made under those circumstances.