Leveling Phase uterless boring Grind

[crouder]

I tried to level up my first Character but i had to quit at Level 20.
Its just press fancy Buttons, Monsters explode. Go to NPC and skip Trash Dialog with Spamming of G only to rinse repeat. Theres not even a challenge.
I can ride through 100 Monsters and No stagger.
I really tried to like this game but at least leveling should be somewhat interesting, thats where i realized its just an MMO Asia Mobile Grind Game.

[Anarchy Burger]

Ooh tell me more about these fancy buttons

[Medicles]

Yep, the way to 50 is just running around spamming G most of the times. The solo dungeons do get a little more challenging around lvl 30, when you do hard difficulty. The enemies hit hard enough that they could kill you if you dont pay attention.

But frankly, which MMO doesnt follow this trend? I have done the same thing in FF 14. It was just running from one quest to the next and thier quests are even worse than LAs quests, because they are not only simple, they are damn long since every NPC is telling you their whole life story.

[VoiD]

Some missions are cool but I agree, the G spamming is hell.

Wait till you realize you'll be doing the post 50 questlines over and over and over again on alts.

[shimsham29]

It indeed is what you mention and the "end game" stuff is also a grind. You just do everything over and over and it becomes so repetitive. I have no idea how people can keep doing the same raid bosses more than a few times and not get annoyed. Once you figure out the pattern/mechanics, it's then just going through the motions until the boss is dead. Not that fun, IMO. I enjoy chaos dungeons more but those become tiring as well.

[Sykar]

G spamming? Everything but the environmental actions, jump over ledges, balancing over chasms and climbinb up or down walls can be solved by left clicking.
Leveling is a little too easy though at least you can crank up the dungeon difficulties. Story is nice enough at least.

[holdem]

Originally posted by crouder:

I tried to level up my first Character but i had to quit at Level 20.
Its just press fancy Buttons, Monsters explode. Go to NPC and skip Trash Dialog with Spamming of G only to rinse repeat. Theres not even a challenge.
I can ride through 100 Monsters and No stagger.
I really tried to like this game but at least leveling should be somewhat interesting, thats where i realized its just an MMO Asia Mobile Grind Game.

DId someone here realised what free to play is? lol
You can skip the deliberately made boring part with your wallet duh

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

You really tried to like this game but at least leveling should be somewhat interesting, thats where you realised its just an MMO*

[DoomedLegume]

You would think this would change by the time you hit Tier 2/3, but the farther into the grind I get, the more awful these quests feel. There was a quest where I literally had to stand there and emote all four dances I had learned... That was the quest. why? I really enjoy the game when I do some of the more challenging parts, like abyss dungeons (some of them) and guardian raids, but the fact that I am still walking a box 20 feet away to complete a quest in Punika is disheartening. I guess the quests dont get "worse", rather they just stay bad. 200 hours of the same quests is 100% chore and 0% enjoyable.

[warozell]

*spoilers*

Dunno about you, but my progress to 50 was a journey where I started with a weak Demonhunter that couldn't transform, I went through a bunch of lands with different problems involving demons, a bunch of interesting characters with their own problems and characteristics, and more.
My character went from a slow and weak human to a demon-transforming maniac causing explosions of blood and gory mayhem. I'm not a roleplayer, it's just how it felt playing my character.

Going through the story, seeing Seria on that cliff with all the other innocent people while watching Armen's feeble attempts at stopping what is happening, to the deaths and pure rage overwhelming Armen, I felt that too.

Or there were these amazing cinematic moments where a genuine MASS of demons was closing in, the cinematic cutting to my character and smoothly progressing to gameplay. All of those demons were killed by me, you don't often get a MMORPG where you can get such amazing battles.

As for more fancy button mashing while going through some trash dialog, I've gone to a multitude of islands with their own stories, completely different from the troubles of the world that they are in.

I even visited the easter-egg with self-inserted dev commentaries about the game.

It's not that the game is boring and has garbage story, try to actually play it and you'll find how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cool it can be.
I know that you're probably a troll baiting people like me, but take any game, skip every cinematic, dialogue or any other non-combat content, and fight battles using a googled 100% one-shot super OP build with no thought what your character can even do. You wouldn't find a game that would be even slightly fun.

EDIT: I understand that I seem pretty rude, but you can't say that the game gets boring after reaching level 20, if you start on level 10 and just skip literally everything just to progress as fast as possible

[Terry86]

if you are skipping everything & don't find story interesting, i would just stop playing. cuz there is only more, a lot more.

lv 50 is like less then 5% of the G clicking you need to do before you get to end game, you still gonna have like 3 weeks of clicking after lv 50

[WeissRook]

Just as a quick clarification, since those just starting the game likely come from a different way of doing things: You don't really level by grinding mobs. It's almost exclusively done by quests. If you're trying to level up by grinding mobs exclusively, then you're doing it wrong for this game. There's a reason why they only give like 2xp apiece.

[BlackStone]

Originally posted by crouder:

I tried to level up my first Character but i had to quit at Level 20.
Its just press fancy Buttons, Monsters explode. Go to NPC and skip Trash Dialog with Spamming of G only to rinse repeat. Theres not even a challenge.
I can ride through 100 Monsters and No stagger.
I really tried to like this game but at least leveling should be somewhat interesting, thats where i realized its just an MMO Asia Mobile Grind Game.

cuz at lower lvls is just the tutorial. You quit before it got harder and better. lvl 20 you still have a diaper on.

[zax]

if you failed in life, try compensating in game; if you failed in both, you re here whinning.
if you ve won in life, but hate the game > it's not for you. don't change it
if you ve won in life and are a ftp : you love grind?, you have fun? congrats,respect for a mmorpg true player
if you ve won in life and are a whale: you re rich. have fun

it seems instead of playing and having FUN, you whine out of frustration and envy, now this is an aspect of noob,poor,hate.
we are playing it the WAY you HATE and we don't whine, we love it actually as ftp and as whales. so try something else, this is not for you. stop whining.
we love the game <3 THANK YOU LOST ARK

[karendor]

Originally posted by Anarchy Burger:

Ooh tell me more about these fancy buttons

like WSAD in FPS?

[Sykar]

Not a single quest is better or worse than any other MMO. WoW, FF 14, etc. does not matter, same quest structure and same types of quests. At least the vast majority of quests are done in a matter of minutes, unlike other MMOs where it takes you anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours because that super rare or last special quest item you need from a specific mob has less than 5% drop chance and you need to massacre the entire area at least twice to get it.