Quote Originally Posted by ApplePie View Post
Because I hated PLD level 1 to 37 in XI, one night I put my friend on follow in the dunes. He phone called me when I hit 20 and then we went to qufim. I went back to bed. He called me a bit later, maybe two hours later, I was level 24. He took us to Kazham, and I went back to bed. Called me later and told me, "We are moving to Crawlers' Nest." Ran to Crawlers' Nest and went back to bed while I put him back on follow. Woke up and I was level 37 paladin. Trust me, these low ranks don't teach you how to play your character. This game is extremely 11111111111 at its current status. Did I know how to cast Flash on my RDM? Yes. Did I know how Sentinel worked? Yes. Does that make me a worse player than you for grinding on the same things over and over with auto-attack, which you would do at that level with the random skill chains? Does this effect you at all? No. Will there be posts about how you are upset I did this five years ago? Probably.
Every time someone says people won't know how to play their job at 50, I "lol."

The game is designed to let you create your own job and play your own way. That's like "Tanaka's vision" that people want to murder. Grinding to Rank 50 is basically "farming abilities." I play Conjurer. I want Defender II. I don't give 2 [cents] how to play Marauder at Rank 1, 25, 35, 50 or ever. Don't care. Simply want Defender. So I "lol" when you say I can't play my job (Conj) cause I auto-leveled Marauder. It's really funny.