Discussion about grinds

After having a discussion with someone on our Discord, it got me thinking about what our community wants grind to be like in Ashes of Creation.

I've got some questions for you all:
- What are your definitions of a good grind?
- What MMO had a good grind system and what made it good?
- How would you want grind to be implemented in the game?

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Ludullu

Noaani wrote: »

You seem to forget that the MMO I have the second most amount of time in is Archeage. Archeage has that same content type, as it was designed by the lead developer of Lineage.

I know the type of content you are talking about, I have participated in it, and lead raids to take on PvE encounters in that same PvP setting.

I didn't even know you did. I either missed it or just haven't participated in the forum for long enough to see that.

Noaani wrote: »

Sure, people could fight you to stop you, but the thing with that is that people that are losing tend to leave fairly quickly these days (that may not have been the case in 2003, but it absolutely was the case from 2014 to 2018).

I played L2 private server through to 2018. And people always stayed. Now that might be because the only people who were still playing L2 were those who would indeed stay and fight, I can definitely see that being the case.

And maybe for that exact reason Steven says they gonna develop bosses that only 1% of people can kill. I'll believe it when I see it, but until then I'm gonna stay highly skeptical.

Fantmx

A good grind doesn't feel like a grind. Or if it does you always have multiple options that offer roughly the same character experience so there is always variability.

Rev

Not a fan of the grind

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