Many people have leveled one to max over and over. Just because he farmed fangs doesn't mean he's going to PL any other part. Most will still do the bigger grind of 35 - 50, and now beyond to sixty. A much bigger grind BTW, your insinuation that 10 to 20 is 20% of the game is not accurate.
I understand your opinion on this, but the low levels in EQ are really the most tedious, boring, and lacking in replay enjoyment for most people who have multiple high level toons. Skipping these levels with the relatively cheap and easy to farm quest items is very understandable. Most classes don't even begin to develop a real identity and a full range of their toolkit until level 12 at minimum, but more like level 20 in most cases.
I have a lot of toons on blue and green, I don't mind going 1 to 5 especially with any bit of twinking done, but that 5 to the low teens is just lame on every class. I tend to use quest turn ins to bypass that and then in the low teens I go back to leveling for real, often the crushbone path like you.
I did a lot of my alts without any questing on blue before I had any money to waste or a max level that could farm fast. But as time has gone on I started to understand wanting to skip to the meat of the game.
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