Shackleton1

Saying it's questing vs grinding I think is kind of misleading. Quest implies some kind of involved, heroic storyline

Say, rather, solo grinding vs group grinding

Serias

Anyone who thinks that clicking the letter M while alt tabbing takes more effort then grinding mobs in a group should not have children, they will be born retarded.

Gustavin

SoE wants everyone to be loners.

Ripzz

lol, at level 79 I walk into Chelsith for the first time with full vitality and after an hour or two and completing the zone, I walk out with a whopping 13% xp. In two hours I could have gotten like 30% xp questing.

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Thundaarr

But don't you know? Everyone will tell you this is everquest, so you shouldn't of even went in there unless you had a quest for it first... I mean come on, how silly can you be to just want to explore a dungeon and kill bad guys without having a journal tell you to?
/sarcasm off

methulah

Two key issues... To the EverQUEST crowd, the game in its various incarnations has been called Everquest for years, almost ten of them. When Everquest first shipped, it hardly had any of these solo tasks. What we have in RoK is a bunch of tasks and missions. Once we get past level 70, we stop banding up and questing for magical relics of yore and begin running errands for shopkeepers. This is not in line with the flavor that the Everquest franchise has given off in the past.

Secondly, people believe that solo questing is the only questing. In the past, there have been plenty of heroic quests, and as such, dungeons have provided XP from a combination of grinding, quests and discovery, much like solo questing. If one accepts that getting a group to run a dungeon is at least marginally harder and more time consuming than simply going somewhere and solo'ing, then surely, if the developers truly wish to support all types of play, as they continue to wax lyrical about, then the heroic content should provide a slightly better rate of XP gain.

Ripzz

I want a new Suffix title for having grinded to 80 - the Errand Boy.

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Ancient Rites

The fucking "it's EverQUEST" argument is so fucking lame. First of all wankers, it is supposed to mean that playing the game is epic, it's YOUR quest to explore and become more powerful with your virtual avatar, it is not meant to imply that the game is focused on literal in game quests.

Stop being so fucking stupid or dishonest, pick one.

Ripzz

I pick stupid.

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Valkybix

Nothing ever made me feel more epic than camping Orc Camp 1 in EQ1, killing the same 7 orcs over and over and over again. "Grinding's awesome!"

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