Hardcorefest (Fun)vs Grindfest

[Gramul]

I like having a grind. As long as there's content to fill it up.

The concept of making my character stronger through training has a lot of appeal to me and being able to jump to max level in a few days really sucks out a lot of the satisfaction.

XI had a lot of quests and missions that helped to make the grind more of a journey (to me at least). You had to go theough a wide variety of zones and hop in dangerous dungeons by youself or with a party without time limits. Felt more like an adventure than a list of various chores to do at max level.
Then again, I never got to max level in XI, so...


Also, hamlet just sucks.