Did they lower the exp grind?

jonsnow13

DAOC always had a way slower leveling grind then any other game I played but lineage 2.  I played a year or two ago though...  has it changed or gotten any better?

I'm not really a person who finds playing a game 40 hours a week for a month just to get to the level where you can actually play the game fun... and if this is how it is, I'm not really interested...

since i'm mostly interested in pvp, but I don't want a grind... I guess I'll just hold off until guild wars... sigh

looking foreward to replies

JulianDracos

Guild Wars isn't really an mmorpg.  But if you only want PvP then it might suit you. 

It takes 10-15 hours played to get to 20.  It will take 3 days played to get to 40's.  5-6 days played to get to 50.  Of course if you spread the time out over weeks it can help.  You get at leas 1 free level a week up to level 48.  It just all depends if you measure time in hours played or weeks it takes to get there. 

For the casual player say 4-10 hours a week it will take 3-5 months to get to 50 depending on how much time and where that time is spent. 

r0hn

It really depends on the type of character you play and how much grouping is done.

Is 5-6 days played possible to get to 50, yes.  Is it realistic for a new player starting from level 1, no.

Figure 12 days played for the first character, and that is with grouping.  A healer faster, an assassin type slower.  Have bot?  yes, faster, no, slower.

It's possible to get to 50 in 3 days played or less, but only if other players are on the same kind of rush and with some organization.

 

Getting to 50 is not the end of the game anymore.  To be competitive double the amount of time in order to complete ml's, gain artifacts and leveling those artifacts.  A character well thought and played correctly in about closer to 15-20 days played can really be a force in rvr, 5 days played to hit 50 is 1/2 the game or even less.

 

 

Ogrelin

Catacombs has made exping alot moe easy, you get alot more exp nowdays for doing the new quests and tasks.

You also get a free lvl every week if u have managed to level one yourself during the week. (up to lvl 48)

You can now join higher lvl groups and actually do damage to higher lvl mobs....(your to-hit chance gets adjusted to match the groupleaders lvl)

So I'd say the game has become more casualfrindly nowdays...even ToA has been made easyer.

 

 

 

Zerocool032

DAoC has the slowest and fastest lvling of any mmorpg. Weird eh? It all depends on how you lvl. If you play in bg's alot or rvr, then lvling can go hidiously fast. But when you solo it goes very slow.

And also, the /freelevel every week, and /lvl, make lvling toons even faster.