2012-03-10, 10:01 PM
Dark Link Wrote:It must have been oh so hard standing in one spot and spamming 1 button for hours on end.
I have no idea how you can call it "Challenging" when you played one of the most faceroll jobs at the time.
Sure, I was one of the fastest levelers back in 2009.
Key words: back in 2009. The EXP/hr rates I pulled back then are a pittance compared to what any class is capable of now.
So don't give me any of that bullshit. The game was challenging for me because I balanced it in with a real life, as best as I could. And I didn't do the best job of it - my high school grades dropped for three years, my core group of friends since forever stopped calling to hang out, I never initiated anything because I was too busy trying to deal with dramatic e-peen queens and get into Zakum/HT runs on Friday/Saturday nights. Then there was that summer where I was so entrenched in playing I skipped everything to play 12-16 hours a day so I could do 170-200 in 3 months. Now will I openly proclaim that my grinding was literally jumping down a platform, climbing up a rope, and hitting Meteor Shower twice per cycle? Yes. It was super easy. But maintaining that maximum output from 2 am - 6 am every morning, going to sleep for four hours at most, then getting up and doing it all over again, while trying to "find a job" and dissuade parents from thinking you're ruining your life?
This isn't about me, though - this is about so many others out there with similar stories. I'm thankful many of you can reach the level cap now with barely any time or effort because it allows you to avoid such detrimental life choices many of us made back then.
Now yes, you had it much harder than I did as a Paladin playing for as long, if not longer, than myself. But you and anyone else with such condescending attitudes towards my story must not have a life outside of the internet, given your apparent lack of understanding at the real world sacrifices you make to achieve things online. That, or if you've experienced anything I've listed above due to your internet addiction, and still make such comments, you're completely delusional as to how real life works. None of this is normal, or healthy, and thus nothing to be proud of.
Good luck and grow up, kids.

