08-14-2004, 01:31 PM
Hi,
However, as Bolty mentioned, when you're small, experience from quest rewards are significant. It's only later on that grinding becomes faster relative to questing.
Yes. But my point was that grinding is the way to go from the start. Basically, Damiella has been killing everything and anything that will give her experience, seeking out the areas rich in critters at or just below her level. However, if some NPCs want to give her an experience boost for doing what she would be doing anyway, she'll take advantage of it.
However, quests are insidious. On a number of occasions I've wasted time looking for "one more spider because I've almost got that quest done" rather than just moving on to where ever she'd get some more killing done. That, I think, points out the underlying difference between a role player and a powergamer. It's not so much 'how' one plays as it is 'why'. Personally, I find it as much fun spending a day mapping a city or exploring a mountain range or crafting useless items to see what they look like as I do grinding out experience by questing or killing. To me, level is meaningless other than as a means of opening new areas and items to explore. To a powergamer, level is the only thing that matters, and they do not take the time (or have the interest) to explore what that level has made possible.
This difference in outlook (and I think it probably goes way beyond games) is why I think that Damiella's future is bleak. I'll probably have to thoroughly explore both the potential of a warrior and the potential(s) of the Night Elves before I can push a character through without smelling the roses on the way. And by the time I've done the prerequisite exploring to not be tempted away from the path of pure experience grinding, I'll probably be bored of the game and have moved on. Such is the life of a dilettante :)
--Pete
However, as Bolty mentioned, when you're small, experience from quest rewards are significant. It's only later on that grinding becomes faster relative to questing.
Yes. But my point was that grinding is the way to go from the start. Basically, Damiella has been killing everything and anything that will give her experience, seeking out the areas rich in critters at or just below her level. However, if some NPCs want to give her an experience boost for doing what she would be doing anyway, she'll take advantage of it.
However, quests are insidious. On a number of occasions I've wasted time looking for "one more spider because I've almost got that quest done" rather than just moving on to where ever she'd get some more killing done. That, I think, points out the underlying difference between a role player and a powergamer. It's not so much 'how' one plays as it is 'why'. Personally, I find it as much fun spending a day mapping a city or exploring a mountain range or crafting useless items to see what they look like as I do grinding out experience by questing or killing. To me, level is meaningless other than as a means of opening new areas and items to explore. To a powergamer, level is the only thing that matters, and they do not take the time (or have the interest) to explore what that level has made possible.
This difference in outlook (and I think it probably goes way beyond games) is why I think that Damiella's future is bleak. I'll probably have to thoroughly explore both the potential of a warrior and the potential(s) of the Night Elves before I can push a character through without smelling the roses on the way. And by the time I've done the prerequisite exploring to not be tempted away from the path of pure experience grinding, I'll probably be bored of the game and have moved on. Such is the life of a dilettante :)
--Pete
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