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Originally Posted by Fantastipotomus
MO, at the height of closed beta, was nearly grindless. Skills gained fast, gear was gained fast. When you lost it you were able to live with your self. I can't imagine what the poor fuckers with Oghmium weapons and Cronite armor do when they die in combat. The gargantuan...colossal effort of attaining gear, even just a fucking set of bone plate that is worth a damn, makes MO into a grind fest.
People have accepted that sandbox=grind. Even in UO people accepted it. UO offered more than MO or DF in its age. Its age is over, I agree. People need not accept it, though. We are paying money for the game. We shouldn't need to spend hours and hours doing mundane things like chop at trees or rocks because making gear hard to get is "hardcore." The only thing hardcore about it is how lame it is to obtain. SV would be doing itself and the world a favor if it made the yields from extracting about 10x as high. More gear. More PvP.
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What the hell are you talking about?
in one hour one can get enough scales for 3-4 complete sets of high end armor. In 30 minutes one can do enough to buy a steel sword. This is no grind. It can feel like a grind because the mobs are dumb as hell and that isn't fun for you but I guess we're all hoping for the epic patch to fix this but you can't call this grind unless your solution is to have steel weapons falling out of the sky.
And what kind of accomplishment would it be to have an end game sword if it only 2 minutes to do it? Whats the point? I don't get this at all nor do MMO designers in general cause SV surely isn't the only that says "well, end game gear doesn't fall out of the sky".
Go play Aion or some other asian game and discover what grind means. And the good thing about Aion and stuff like that is that when you die you get all your stuff back. You should like that, you don't have to grind anything ever again after you have all your end game gear.