2013-01-29, 08:04 PM
LegendGospel Wrote:Now, 4th job.
With no party play areas it meant a ridiculous amount of grinding. I first got to 4th job back at skeles. I admit it was a bit too much of a pain back then.
But now it means NOTHING!
It could have used some adjustments, but NOT going from months and months of work to get to 4th job, to be able to do it in 19 hours, or for more casual people, in 2-5 days.
The game right now feels rushed.
You rush through everything to 4th job. And then you're welcome to be annoyed by Mastery Books, people 30 levels below you with triple the damage thanks to potential, and the inability to kill any important bosses without lots of funding or knowing people, people you didn't meet on your way to 4th job because it all happened in a heartbeat.
tl;dr The game was very hard, Nexon made it very easy
The problem, to me, is that Nexon focused on new classes = new content. On one character, I'm fine with 8+ hours per level (my Paladin spent a good stretch, probably 50-155, at a minimum of 8 hours each, reaching up to 25+ hours at the slower points, since LHC came out when it was high 15x). If the only way to experience new content is to grind a new character to 120... no thank you. My account has what, 9 or 10 4th jobs on it now? If they want me to enjoy playing all those characters to 4th there'd better be a decrease in the grind I have to accomplish on each of them.
If they want me to try the new classes, specifically their 4th job skills they can't nerf grinding. And since they want me to try new classes, the equation is simple.
If they want me to grind characters I've already got, they can balance the existing classes so there's a point to me playing Aran/DK/Paladin (all of which lose out in the dps race by a large margin - the DK and Paladin in general, the Aran at high-end upgrades due to its low hits per second). A single equip upgrade for an AB could add more dps than my Aran can do, total.