How are people getting lvl 99 so fast?

[Lucyfar]

I'm farming Liquid Metal Slimes in the Slime Island in Alefgard (on North of Talontear Tunnel) and Jesus Christ after 2 days i'm still lvl 60 with my Hero, this is so slow and boring, and i've see tons of ppl already lvl 99 with every character/class on reddit and other websites.

In the old versions i've used to grind the Muddy Hands that spawned the Stone Statues ad infinitum and it was waaaaay faster to level up, i played the SNES version. But in this version the Muddy Hands only spawn more Muddy Hands and the xp/h is better at the LMS spawn anyway but damn

If anyone have any tips to improve my farming please i'm all ears, i'm already using Whistle to speed things up but still. Also using Puff, Metal Boomerang, Assassin's Stab etc... It doesn't help that most LMS flee before i can act tho

[Evilnapkin]

Grinding is an outdated gameplay mechanic. Without it these sorts of games would have been over in like 5 hours in the 80s, only reason they used quick math to make the games longer. Same reason vast majority of games from that era had ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mechanics, if you had to die a bunch to something cheap before getting past something, it made it take longer so you felt like you got more value for your dollar. BUT people confuse it with eventually "accomplishing" something, probably largely due to nostalgia. Reality is it was mostly just bad game design. I was there when it happened so I can say this with confidence.

Back then I would have told someone to suck it up if they said a game was too difficult. Now that I have perspective, I prefer my games to be entertaining.