When does this game become challenging?

[elendil]

Hello.
I leveled 30 levels so far and it feels that I'm just grinding trash mobs without any real challenge. When does the game become challenging and monsters get interesting abilities etc.?

[Tsel13]

Level 56 and higher.
When you need Boss, Blackstar, or Fallen God weapons and gear to fight the mobs such as at Stars End, Ash Forest, and many other places like them.

[mana🌎🌍🌏🇺🇸🇳🇱]

Originally posted by elendil:

Hello.
I leveled 30 levels so far and it feels that I'm just grinding trash mobs without any real challenge. When does the game become challenging and monsters get interesting abilities etc.?

I love it when I see this question every once in awhile. Think of the first 50 or so levels as a a tutorial. Have fun and live free while you can - there's plenty of challenge in the future

[MEMPHIS]

Originally posted by elendil:

Hello.
I leveled 30 levels so far and it feels that I'm just grinding trash mobs without any real challenge. When does the game become challenging and monsters get interesting abilities etc.?

It never gets difficult to play. It gets difficult to grind. And it isn't difficult because you are doing something incorrectly. It gets difficult because you will hit a wall around level 55 or so where mobs will all of a sudden become impossible for you to kill, even though you are supposedly the correct level for them.

And so, your forward progression is no longer about Levels or Skills or your ability to play. It is all about upgrading your gear. This is really the entire game at this point. It is all there is to the game. And the upgrading is ridiculous. It'll take a lot of time, patience, and probably money. Real money. You will basically have to no-life the game.

Once you get the gear you are supposed to have for that one mob, things will go back to normal where you cannot die and you one-shot everything. Until you get to the next mob where you have to go through the entire thing all over again.

NOTE: The higher gear you have, the more you will have to deal with competing hunt space. Which means PvP. And the people with higher gear will win. Period. There is no point in thinking you might out maneuver them. You won't. It's simple numbers, and they have more of them.

The game is pretty. It has sort of an interesting story in the beginning, really fun gameplay for an MMO, and to an extent, it is fun to explore. But it is a total waste of time, frankly. This game is like getting a girlfriend who is crazy hot, and she wants sex all the time. But eventually, she pulls a 180 on you, and you discover that she is very demanding, non-negotiable on basic things you would think would be reasonable, and essentially wants to corrupt and destroy your soul. Hear me on this one, brother. I'm telling you straight: Just walk away.

[Reverielle]

Yes, the balance is lacking in the beginning levels these days. Hopefully it will be addressed in the future at some point. It wasn't always the case, but updates, power creep, improved main mission rewards and so on have skewed things.

But as some others have said, it does get more difficult, definitely. Like anything however, a lot depends upon the individual though and the choices they make, about where/what to fight etc.

[-BLOOD-OCEAN-]

youre just supposed to grind to lvl 56 and then the game starts. up to 56 getting lvls is around 1% the effort of getting a lvl past 56

[Hal]

That's not true. Even on lv 60 you will get several % progress from simple "run around" side quests in Kamasylvia. And it has a lot of those.

[-BLOOD-OCEAN-]

Originally posted by Hal:

That's not true. Even on lv 60 you will get several % progress from simple "run around" side quests in Kamasylvia. And it has a lot of those.

no you wont, not even with the exp tome.. and you obviously dont know what youre talking about. you will maybe get like 2.00% at 58 on certain quests across the map if you follow walkthroughs but they each take an hour to get to/do, and there is limited amount. at 60 you get like 0.800 MAX on a quest with the tome if you dont do the exp quests before hand.

im lvl 62. and have three lvl 58 for bosses and secondary build that is lvl 61. and have completed the questline on all of them passed stars edge. i know what im talking about.

[Female_sniper]

Originally posted by --BL00D-OCEAN--:

Originally posted by Hal:

That's not true. Even on lv 60 you will get several % progress from simple "run around" side quests in Kamasylvia. And it has a lot of those.

no you wont, not even with the exp tome.. and you obviously dont know what youre talking about. you will maybe get like 2.00% at 58 on certain quests across the map if you follow walkthroughs but they each take an hour to get to/do, and there is limited amount. at 60 you get like 0.800 MAX on a quest with the tome if you dont do the exp quests before hand.

im lvl 62. and have three lvl 58 for bosses and secondary build that is lvl 61. and have completed the questline on all of them passed stars edge. i know what im talking about.

At a particular little farm (which I am not gonna state since u know so much already) you basically level from lvl 60-61 from just doing xp quests.
These are side-quests, optional, not stated anywhere in your main questline, and if u missed these it's too bad.
Questing to lvl 61 is easy. It is after 61 u need to start grinding for those tiny xp gains.
- I've got 8 lvl 61 characters, I do know this for a fact. :)

[-BLOOD-OCEAN-]

Originally posted by Female_sniper:

Originally posted by --BL00D-OCEAN--:

no you wont, not even with the exp tome.. and you obviously dont know what youre talking about. you will maybe get like 2.00% at 58 on certain quests across the map if you follow walkthroughs but they each take an hour to get to/do, and there is limited amount. at 60 you get like 0.800 MAX on a quest with the tome if you dont do the exp quests before hand.

im lvl 62. and have three lvl 58 for bosses and secondary build that is lvl 61. and have completed the questline on all of them passed stars edge. i know what im talking about.

At a particular little farm (which I am not gonna state since u know so much already) you basically level from lvl 60-61 from just doing xp quests.
These are side-quests, optional, not stated anywhere in your main questline, and if u missed these it's too bad.
Questing to lvl 61 is easy. It is after 61 u need to start grinding for those itny xp gains.

yeah thats literally the first guide that shows up when you google (BDO 60-61) your legit googling answers for this post. thats what im getting at. dont answer things you genuinely know nothing about.

[Female_sniper]

Originally posted by --BL00D-OCEAN--:

Originally posted by Female_sniper:

At a particular little farm (which I am not gonna state since u know so much already) you basically level from lvl 60-61 from just doing xp quests.
These are side-quests, optional, not stated anywhere in your main questline, and if u missed these it's too bad.
Questing to lvl 61 is easy. It is after 61 u need to start grinding for those itny xp gains.

yeah thats literally the first guide that shows up when you google (BDO 60-61) your legit googling answers for this post. thats what im getting at. dont answer things you genuinely know nothing about.

You bore me already *yawn*
Finish the questlines instead of stopping at kamasylvia :) Maybe you would get past lvl 58 on those alts too.
Or just remain thinking Kamasylvia is the end of the game and you already have a lvl 62 so u don't need anything more.
Just don't lie to other players about it.

[-BLOOD-OCEAN-]

Originally posted by Female_sniper:

Originally posted by --BL00D-OCEAN--:

yeah thats literally the first guide that shows up when you google (BDO 60-61) your legit googling answers for this post. thats what im getting at. dont answer things you genuinely know nothing about.

You bore me already *yawn*
Finish the questlines instead of stopping at kamasylvia :) Maybe you would get past lvl 58 on those alts too.
Or just remain thinking Kamasylvia is the end of the game and you already have a lvl 62 so u don't need anything more.
Just don't lie to other players about it.

dude youre cringe.

[-BLOOD-OCEAN-]

Originally posted by Female_sniper:

Originally posted by --BL00D-OCEAN--:

yeah thats literally the first guide that shows up when you google (BDO 60-61) your legit googling answers for this post. thats what im getting at. dont answer things you genuinely know nothing about.

You bore me already *yawn*
Finish the questlines instead of stopping at kamasylvia :) Maybe you would get past lvl 58 on those alts too.
Or just remain thinking Kamasylvia is the end of the game and you already have a lvl 62 so u don't need anything more.
Just don't lie to other players about it.

id escalate it to the point of meeting in game and kill you but i genuinely don't care.
talking to people like you is like arguing with a child that thinks they are smart. its cringe and embarrassing for both of us.

[Female_sniper]

What I am saying is that there are lots of sidequests in the game to bring you to lvl 61 at least.
The way you wrote it makes it sound as if there isn't any quests at all, and you argue that you did all the main quests or something. Sure, well, main quests basicalyl stop giving xp after Valencia main questline. Sidequests remain everywhere though.

I think it is you who need to re-word yourself. And stop thinking you are so knowledgeable coz you are lvl 62 and have some lvl 58 chars. Gratz.

[Female_sniper]

You -are- being toxic, though, so try harder.

And you are not helping anyone by saying "After main storyline you gain little no to xp" when there still are sidequests in basically every city that will give some xp.

You can stop posting back to me now coz I won't bother. Just thoguht I'd end with this since you like to have to last word.

[dollars202]

Leveling up to 61 is easy, then it starts to take a while and will slow down to the point of pain, highest level i've seen is 66 in this game. They got to 66 by literally taking years of leveling time on training dummies. Someone can level you up to 59 in about 2 hours at trees if you got the 530% buffs and 2 600% mercenary buffs. Then you can quest to 61 which will take about 2 hours per level while watching you tube videos, 1 hour to do the quests and another hour to watch the video per level. After 61 the fastest way to level is via training dummy to 66, which will take probably about 2 years of dummies. The longest being 65-66.