leveling up is fun, the most fun thing to do is get a group of like minded pals and hit all of the obscure camps/dungeons you never did on live. Don't spend time in boring zones like Dreadlands, don't spend your precious exp time leveling up pulling a tiger to the wall of a zone...ya know ?
Hit up sola, dungeon crawl through that place. Make it an event, crawl through all over upper guk. Conqueor the Mistmoore Castle. Hit the fucked up random Kunark dungeons like Nurga, Dalnir, Kaesora etc...hit all those spots you or nobody else did on live. That's the most fun i've had and ive been playing this server for 15hours a day for the past 6 years.
When you get to the raid scene, if you want to kill the hardest mobs and get the best loot, you have to join one of the two big guilds. Killing these NTOV dragon isn't an event, it feels more like a job. You sit there and auto attack while it's in one place for a few seconds until it dies. The mobs die very quickly and there's not much mystery to it. To even get a chance to kill the dragon, you have to endure a -/+ 16hour variance spawn time. Someone in your guild has to stare at its spawn point for 1second up to 16hours. You take rotations, shifts, to keep eyes there. There are multiple guilds doing this. Virtually anyone in the two top guilds will tell ya there isn't much fun to it. You aren't doing dungeon crawls, you aren't clearing mobs to get to the boss. You sit at TOV entrance and the all the dragons come to you, most people don't get to see the actual zone. This goes for almost every raid zone.
Then you have to think, why do I want these best items? All of the Velious content was cleared on day1 with people in only Kunark gear. None of these best loots in the game will help your guild progress and make things easier for you. You're going to be maxed in your stats with cheap EC tunnel gear.
So really, the game is what you make out of it. You have to make it fun for yourself. There is no right way to play. Spend your time doing obscure tradeskill recipes, or spend your time in the most obscure zones. Don't rush to 60 in the easy, vanilla, common spots. There ain't much to look forward to at 60.
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