Quote Originally Posted by Norwan View Post
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1) I DID leves, a lot, on CON until I hit 45 then I grinded to 50. On THM, I only grind in parties.

2) Again, until this recent update, behest was a waste of time due to too many people being in a party and it only happening once an hour. Yes, I do participate in a behest if I happen to be near a camp when it starts, but it's not my main source of leveling.

3) Wrong. Leves gain a ton of SP in a small amount of time, but they have a very small limit. 8 leves every 36 hours. If 8 leves give you...10 mobs a leve at 800sp per mob kill that = 64ksp in 36 hours, congratulations! Now, grinding raptors at 45, I was getting 340 per kill with 2 other people in the party and they went down relatively quickly. I dare say we killed 100 raptors in an hour, easily. Now, doing simple math, we see that 100 mobs/hr * 340sp/mob = 34000sp. Say I grind for 2 hours, I've already doubled the Sp that you got and will get for the next 34ish hours. In 36hrs you may gain 64-100k sp, but in 36 hours, just from grinding, I'll gain so much more (1,224,000sp to be exact, based off of the above estimations).

4) I didn't say that I had nothing else to do, I just said that NMs are my main source of enjoyment since the crafting is horrible and item fatigue prevents excessive gathering =)

5) No, I have every location's teleport, but I have taken note of the decent SP locations, yes.

6) I stay because I enjoy downing NMs with friends and I have hope for the game. I also know that they will release classes in the future that will be better than the current classes. There is more to the game than just crafting and different classes.

7) I'm not going for realism. This is FINAL FANTASY. Take note of the word "Fantasy." If I wanted a realistic game, I would go play Counterstrike or something similar. What I mean by "real game" is what games always have been and always should be. Yes, I like that some NMs drop materials, because I understand that some people craft, but not all NMs should drop materials because then that puts too much power into the hands of the crafters and not enough into those that actually work for the items (battle wise)