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Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap
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2012-03-10, 10:12 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.

You severely underestimate both the scope of effort involved and the time, I think.

Regardless of what you think it involved, spamming newties was damn hard work, because you had to fund it first and foremost, which meant you couldn't afford to just sit there AFK. You blew a potion every cast. That meant you needed money, and you needed a supply train. You had to rush around, grabbing your drops or spend at least as much time merching as you did killing to try to afford to keep going, or charge for leech to keep it up.

Conveniently I have a nice visual representation of what it took to get to 200.

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Note those last two columns are time till next level, in hours and minutes. Of Non Stop Grinding, in the exact conditions currently employed. 56 hours of grinding doesn't sound like much, right? It's just a little over 2 days, except the average play time is supposed to be 4 hours or less. That makes a 56 hour grind the equivalent of 2 weeks worth of gameplay for the average player, a little less if they get more time on weekends. And that's one level.

It wasn't nearly so tape a button down and wander off as some people like to think.
We had streams of people wandering through at all times, cause we didn't have mini dungeons and every AM on the server needed those one maps per channel for the best XP, we had to stand in an area where getting hit was unavoidable in order to get as much of the map as possible, keep magic guard on at all times to stay alive, and note that every hit, which were 2 to 3 per blizzard, was another instant potion loss, circle the entire map if we wanted any loot at all, keep an HSer around just to entice another leecher to be able to afford one more hour, on and on and on.

The push to be in the top 5 was an incredible act of patience, strategy (look at how many ways we tested getting the best XP and tell me there wasn't strategy, or how to get potions with minimal interruption or loss of channel) and a terrific "challenge" of sanity and wits.

And yes I know the XP rates were like 30x worse for any other class, but the fact mages had it better was only by comparison, the effort was still very real, very insane, and the reward was to be told Congrats, there's nothing left for you to do.

Everyone; If it doesn't meet your definition of challenging you either have no idea what was actually involved, or have incredibly lofty standards. Either way, stop denigrating the accomplishments of others unless you've done the same thing in equal or worse conditions.
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Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Mazz - 2012-03-08, 11:43 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by IImaplers - 2012-03-08, 11:48 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by rattown - 2012-03-08, 11:51 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Raph589 - 2012-03-08, 12:10 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Link - 2012-03-08, 12:11 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Kirov - 2012-03-08, 12:12 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Eos - 2012-03-08, 12:44 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Stereo - 2012-03-08, 12:54 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Zelkova - 2012-03-08, 01:13 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Killed - 2012-03-08, 01:25 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Raph589 - 2012-03-08, 01:27 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Thorr - 2012-03-08, 01:42 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Abysseon - 2012-03-08, 01:58 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Endgame - 2012-03-08, 02:04 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by MasPan - 2012-03-08, 02:29 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Sephie - 2012-03-08, 03:03 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Raph589 - 2012-03-08, 03:27 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Sephie - 2012-03-08, 03:31 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Raph589 - 2012-03-08, 03:38 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Phoenix - 2012-03-08, 04:29 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Shidoshi - 2012-03-08, 04:37 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Coogi - 2012-03-08, 04:50 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Coogi - 2012-03-08, 04:54 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by DRK - 2012-03-08, 05:02 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Viaje - 2012-03-08, 05:19 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by byakugan - 2012-03-08, 05:29 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Viaje - 2012-03-08, 06:00 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Stereo - 2012-03-08, 06:23 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by FrozNlite - 2012-03-08, 07:56 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by DRK - 2012-03-08, 08:01 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Taarie - 2012-03-08, 08:08 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Endgame - 2012-03-08, 08:11 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Dark Link - 2012-03-08, 08:17 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Andross - 2012-03-08, 08:59 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Jedward - 2012-03-08, 09:10 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Viaje - 2012-03-08, 11:35 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Mazz - 2012-03-08, 11:46 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Raul - 2012-03-09, 12:02 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Spadow - 2012-03-09, 12:13 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by FrozNlite - 2012-03-09, 12:32 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Viaje - 2012-03-09, 12:42 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Raul - 2012-03-09, 01:01 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Moonlapse - 2012-03-09, 01:12 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Dark Link - 2012-03-09, 01:46 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Andross - 2012-03-09, 12:51 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by srevwetv - 2012-03-10, 06:12 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Bremze - 2012-03-10, 07:25 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Dark Link - 2012-03-10, 07:56 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by lorx - 2012-03-10, 08:43 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Dark Link - 2012-03-10, 09:00 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Bremze - 2012-03-10, 09:19 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Dark Link - 2012-03-10, 09:57 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by FrozNlite - 2012-03-10, 10:01 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Eos - 2012-03-10, 10:12 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Dark Link - 2012-03-10, 10:14 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Mazz - 2012-03-10, 10:19 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Andross - 2012-03-10, 11:41 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by bast963 - 2012-03-10, 11:45 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by FrozNlite - 2012-03-11, 12:38 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by bast963 - 2012-03-11, 01:07 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Andross - 2012-03-11, 02:11 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Stereo - 2012-03-11, 03:16 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Bremze - 2012-03-11, 04:26 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by bast963 - 2012-03-11, 09:58 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Bremze - 2012-03-12, 08:01 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Shidoshi - 2012-03-13, 09:58 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Eos - 2012-03-13, 10:12 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Eos - 2012-03-13, 10:16 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Stereo - 2012-03-13, 10:59 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Eos - 2012-03-13, 11:05 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Mazz - 2012-03-13, 11:06 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Shidoshi - 2012-03-13, 11:07 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Stereo - 2012-03-13, 11:10 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Shidoshi - 2012-03-13, 11:13 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Stereo - 2012-03-13, 11:28 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Stereo - 2012-03-13, 11:37 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Mazz - 2012-03-13, 12:43 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Patt - 2012-03-13, 01:09 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by FenixR - 2012-03-13, 02:50 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Eos - 2012-03-13, 02:55 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by FenixR - 2012-03-13, 02:59 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Reako - 2012-03-13, 03:02 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Shidoshi - 2012-03-13, 04:18 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Mazz - 2012-03-13, 04:34 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Arrol - 2012-03-13, 04:39 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Arrol - 2012-03-13, 04:42 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Stereo - 2012-03-13, 06:27 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Thorr - 2012-03-13, 06:47 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Whut - 2012-03-15, 07:02 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by ZeekFox - 2012-03-16, 02:59 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by ZeekFox - 2012-03-16, 05:28 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Nion - 2012-03-16, 05:31 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Eos - 2012-03-16, 11:11 PM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by Locked - 2012-03-29, 12:24 AM
Nexon Needs To Raise The Level Cap - by ShadeCaro - 2012-03-29, 01:02 AM

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