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If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
"Grind sucks, we hate the grind"
SmileGurney
Member, Alpha Two
As a lot of people hit some major EXP milestones, I think its time for this discussion. I appreciate a number of game systems aren't there yet, and atm I happy to consider the EXP gain from quests, story arcs and stuff like commissions as placeholder values. However it feels like the current levelling experience is exactly what Intrepid professes to hate in one of those older interviews (see for the relevant clip below). We are literally grinding mobs over and over again.
"Killing mobs, for 16 hours, to gain one quarter of the experience bar".
https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxy1o6r5ZVskH1YD_DdITPjlL6y37eqKYj
Side note: I don't mind slower levelling, but the exponential growth of the EXP required for a level is rather silly at higher levels. I suspect (as I haven't tried it much) crafting is also quite grind intensive.
This also compounds badly with the gear and level power scaling issues, which are being discussed here:
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/63891/gear-scaling-does-not-feel-good#latest
"Killing mobs, for 16 hours, to gain one quarter of the experience bar".
https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxy1o6r5ZVskH1YD_DdITPjlL6y37eqKYj
Side note: I don't mind slower levelling, but the exponential growth of the EXP required for a level is rather silly at higher levels. I suspect (as I haven't tried it much) crafting is also quite grind intensive.
This also compounds badly with the gear and level power scaling issues, which are being discussed here:
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/63891/gear-scaling-does-not-feel-good#latest
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There some camps that give you 700k xp an hour solo sooo yeah
although i grew up on everquest
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Experience#Grinding
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And?
I know you know this will get adjusted as time goes on right?
As more systems come on line/get added.
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