How does PL'ing affect you?

[Resty]

There's a reason that people who run around pointing and screaming "bot" at everone who is crafting, or established, run around stressing over a handful of people getting an easy 10 levels on a job from the last weeks formula snafu, are always poeple who don't have very established characters.

When you spend all day looking at what you don't have, and complaining about those that do, you really don't get much done, or ever get in a position to buddy up to those people and ask how to get to their level of success.

I've gotten one battlecraft level since the update. You know why? Because I was busy doing other things. You think I'm sitting around hating on those that took advantage of it? Nope.
About the only thought I've had on the issue is "I'm guessing everyone that's bitching is too low to join one, or doesn't know anyone that will let them join one." Because no one can convince me they would rather do the same leves/behests and/or spend 2 hours putting a pt of the same levels together over and over for the next 3 weeks to get the same results.

This isn't XI, you learn NOTHING about playing your job from grinding XP, if anything grinding in this game teaches you very bad habits, and you have to relearn your job when you start doing r50 activities.