Archeage
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Gravel
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I struck the lotto with a thunderstruck tree on Monday, so I've got the money. It just didn't seem worthwhile.
I was expecting to max out at least the Auramancy since it was already at 30 and it didn't even come remotely close. And while you say it was in a short amount of time (about 20 minutes), that doesn't take into account that really it's much more significant than that because of labor accumulation. If I had unlimited labor, yes, it'd be true that it took just 20 minutes. But really, we're talking about several days here. At a minimum it's 42 hours to accumulate 5k labor, but that's only if you're online. It was more realistically probably 4 days. So essentially it was 11 levels in 4 days. Doesn't sound so awesome anymore. Cutting it down with labor pots doesn't even work because of the long cooldown. You're still talking 24+ hours for those 11 levels.
Tuco
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I would ditch the belt/tasset creation and try to do something useful with your labor. My favorite choice was starshard mining. Leveled my mining skill and got me some gold. Another option is AFK fishing. Fishing and mining seem to be the two top gathering skills.
zombiewizardhawk
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What do you want, instant level 50s on every class just for deciding to play the game? People seriously confuse me with MMOs nowadays. OMG it took me 10 days to have every class maxed, Trion WTF u thinking!?
Being able to play the fun part of the game fast is nice. Slogging through the boring quest grind for a few weeks sucks. Why do I have to prove myself over and over in games by playing stripped down boring low level characters through fetch quests for a couple hundred hours before getting to the part of the game I actually want to play?
Vitality
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No one gives a shit about leveling a character anymore because leveling is old, boring and a tired thing. They just want to have all their character's abilities and "build points" and just spend weeks/months building a character through crafting, wealth, pvp and gear.
Gravel
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Because grinding out levels is fucking boring. And in this game it's even worse because you can't really grind mobs or quests after the initial time through. I don't know why you say people confuse you, because there's a very small minority that actually wants a long level grind. For the most part, people hate that shit because it's essentially a gate before you get to the actual game.
To be honest, I'd be perfectly happy to start out at max level. It would allow the developers to not waste so much god damn time and money on developing shit that you do once (the 1-49 crap). It's a waste of time because once you've gone through it, it's content that just sits there idle for the majority of your playerbase.
Vitality
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I'll go against the grain and say boring leveling is a necessity to develop an attachment to your character. Progession in all its forms is healthy even if it sucks
If any part of your game, especially the first 20-40 hours of gameplay, can be classified as boring then you're a shitty game developer and if you like it, you're a pretty bad human.I'll go against the grain and say boring leveling is a necessity to develop an attachment to your character. Progession in all its forms is healthy even if it sucks
Vitality
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Did you have fun in your first 20-40 hours of Archeage? I kind of did, for a while. The quests started to get to me though.
If I played the game hardcore and tried to race, I would of probably had fun. But that is outside the scope of the game design.
Quests and leveling don't have to be boring and stupid we've all used the collect bear asses remark and that remark is exactly why it's boring and dumb, if you got a shitload of experience doing hard content that pushed your abilities to complete it wouldnt be so bad but somewhere along the lines developers thought players needed to do 10000 quests to hit max level and that is the problem you can't have a good time leveling if its the same shit over and over.
I really liked the human quests (the ones that worship red bull chief aerodynamicist Adrian Newey). But I tried the other side and didn't like it.
I'm actually still doing some of the crafty quests (curse you fiery chili peppers!). I wonder if the blue salt brotherhood is some sort of horrible engrish translation and in korean the name of their order actually makes sense.
I'm actually still doing some of the crafty quests (curse you fiery chili peppers!). I wonder if the blue salt brotherhood is some sort of horrible engrish translation and in korean the name of their order actually makes sense.