I thought grinding was because of two reasons:

1) To slow down the top guilds and guilds with mass members in their rank, from consuming the whole entire content in 3-6 months. Imagine that, 3-4 years of hardcore development and people finishes it in a few months! Kind of insulting...

2) To give those solo players and people who's too shy to join a guild/group (in case they have to "chat" to other "real" people), a chance to catch up... somewhat. Everyone knows it's much more easier to level up when you're low than when you're high level. Hence a bigger population in the middle than in the end.

And wasn't Aion made for social people? You don't "have" to be in a guild or even a "community" but you should at least be willing to group up quite eagerly, you know, otherwise play go play your Final Fantasy games. And on that note, I heard FF14 will be made specifically for the Hikimori....

~ cue mass googling of the word "hikimori" ~

My tip: Do those repeatable quests that requires you to "only" kill, and not collect. If you were In a full group of six, you would have to kill about 3-4 mobs each (if the quests required about 20 kills), and then turn in the quest. And how long does it take to kill 3-4 mobs? You can do it in like 5 mins, probably less and even if you don't get as much xp from those quests per turn in, the rate of turn in will still be faster than if you try to solo high level mobs and you'll also get LOADS of money! Easily get over 100k.

Anyway, there's a saying:

"The ties of friendship and bonds of brotherhood are formed Strongest in the midst of battle."

Thats why I LOVE PARTIES not just to grind, but for protection and making friends.

19 hours from 44 to 45 huh... I could solo that in one day or one weekend day, but I'll probably be to busy ganking the opposing race and stopping them from leveling up
 

Peace out/

I'm pretty sure I've spent more time making templates for DAoC.  19 hours is maybe a good weekend and a weekday or two.  Don't give me that crap about people that work.  If I can work 40-50 hours regularly, have kids, and slip in a few hours for gaming late at night...  Adults call it time management.

Originally posted by //\\//\\oo

Originally posted by patrikd23

 

Yes might be but not a huge leap, I think the "kids of WoW" need to grow up and do some work for a change, so it might be a "healthy bridge" right?

I think we will see more of these mmo in the future.

 

  A lot of the "kids of WoW " are people with jobs who prefer instant satisfaction

 

 

Yeah, and the reason why there are so many shitty mmo's out now is, because of whiners, and crybabys like you who come to forums and bitch, because the game isn't an instant gratification MMO which your obviously used too. IE World of Tardcraft

Instant gratification is usually best sought out in mmoFPS games. I go to them when the mmoRPG grind isn't appealing. Then I go back when my frags hit the 50,000 mark. And boom, mmoRPG's are appealing again.

Just because it's not a 24 hour appeal, doesn't make an mmoRPG bad. All things in moderation please!

Originally posted by twiggly

Instant gratification is usually best sought out in mmoFPS games. I go to them when the mmoRPG grind isn't appealing. Then I go back when my frags hit the 50,000 mark. And boom, mmoRPG's are appealing again.

 

Just because it's not a 24 hour appeal, doesn't make an mmoRPG bad. All things in moderation please!

So true. I also go pewpew in FPS games when I'm temporarily bored of RPGs.