Rant Grinding...

[ionscorp]

I think the great part about EQ was that even though you where grinding, it was addictive and fun as hell.. You would camp single spots for 2-32 hours at a time for that one named mob (leading to the nickname evercrack). After WoW games lost that fun of the grind it seems.. AOC was grindy from 50-80 and it was boring as piss.. Not to mention the games was terrible!

[robertallen]

I got tired of the grinding in EQ1...I never felt that way about EQ2 though. There were quests I had to kill 100 of certain things though.

I wish EQ1 had the quest systems back in the day like WoW/EQ2/Vanguard, etc... 7 hours a day of pointless grinding...I look back and wonder why I spent so much time wasting my life away on EQ1.

[azeroth192]

Originally Posted by Mr. Hrm

The longest grind per level I found was EQ, Lineage 2 and FFXI...

trust me once you play 2moons from acclaim you will see the longest grind of your life highest lvl i got in that game was lvl 86 and it was cause i had a grinding team were 5 people would team together and 1 play would lead while the other 5 would follow we would run around for 1 min gather around 15-20 mobs then all unleash our aoe attacks man i would spend a whole day just to get 1 lvl when there was 2times exp drops on reg about 1 day and a half to lvl and prices were crazy since it has a player built economy and alot of gold sellers heres the linky if ya wanna try this grind fest oh did i metion lvl cap was 150 so i did 85/150 i consider my self a survivor lol

2Moons - Free Fantasy MMORPG

[ultramega]

I hear the grind in EQ/EQ2 was terrible. My friends tried getting me into those MMOs, and when I hear them wax reminiscent about spending a day or two travelling to an instance plane or camping a mob for a rare weapon for days... what a time sink. I'm glad I never saw an appeal in them.

The grind in WoW isn't too bad and they keep making it easier and easier to level. Now the grind for money on the other hand... it's easier than it used to be, but still a time sink. I don't want to waste an hour or two of game time doing dailies when I could be levelling an alt or having fun doing an instance. This means I am almost always broke but that's something I've come to accept.

[reggin]

get your grind on.... It helps to either have booze or pot while doing so

[Mgn]

Yea i play WoW and d&D. I hate WoW cuz the quest get boring and in diablo 2 when i played grinding kinda was easy and fun but it got boring after awhile.

I admit i don't like grinding and even in d&d i hate killing stuff to level but that's part of the game. I love hack and slash and i like getting gear and prized over general xp.

[DeathzDezign]

well yea they should make it so quests get you to the level you need to get to. Massive grinding does lead to botters and hackers sadly. But then again without the griniding it wouldn't be as adventurous ya know

[Mr. Hrm]

Originally Posted by DeathzDezign

well yea they should make it so quests get you to the level you need to get to. Massive grinding does lead to botters and hackers sadly. But then again without the griniding it wouldn't be as adventurous ya know

And less monthly subscription payments.

[DeathzDezign]

yea if they would make wow a one time payment they would get so many more people to play that it would probably cover the costs. All they have to do is make more stuff to sell ingame that you pay real money for ya get my drift

[ultramega]

Eugh, no, that'd ruin the game. I like the fact that you don't have to pay real-world money for in-game stuff. There's already enough people who do that on the side like selling the trading card rewards and stuff.