First to 52 (almost 53) and back to 51

[Adorean]

I'm not sure if it's a bug. It's been there for ever and it was a way to level. The guts are a pain to get.. figure if you're lucky you might get 1 a day. The only reason it was viable as a way to level is we've had nothing better to do for the last 6 months.

It's not an efficient way to level if there are mobs to kill that give you exp. It's only efficient if you have nothing better to do for months on end. Rather than farm SMR's I decided to farm Zahal. So instead of having a bazillion plat in the bank I had a ton of quest items that would allow me to level.

No biggy guys. I had fun.. I just feel like a bit of a douche for wasting all that time farming him and all the time finding and submitting bugs in beta.

[Jigga]

yeah sucks. If it was mass expolited i would say remove the quest exp and delvl but if its one person than its no biggy. Kind of like was it intended for the rare loot to be dropping as much as it was tonight at first? Nope, instead of removing all the loot they just did a quick patch and reduced the drop rate

[Zeelot]

It took him a long time to do that quest. Probably longer than it would take to level by grinding exp. He just had it done in advance is all. I don't see how that's an exploit.

[Jigga]

Its not, its just the product of knowing what lies ahead. Similar to rogs having their robes collected for epics. Similar to people camping and hording smr for when the hole opens up.

[whitebandit]

Ii this is a new quest, the story i guess is a bit different..

[Dr4z3r]

If no one knew about it being a way to level, then why would he have camped items for 4 months in order to get that quest?

Are you saying he predicted 4 months ago that this particular quest would erroneously give too much exp? That seems a little far-fetched.

[Hobby]

Listen, its a simple concept. Abusing a bug to advance in levels super fast, faster than what is reasonable, is not allowed.

Stop arguing and trying to defend him.

[saucer]

I am sorry, but if this person spent months collecting these things they deserve the levels for being clever and finding a quest where this was possible.

Think about it, people also spend tons of time camping seafuries to get 1k a day, yet a guy created a lvl 1 today and got scimitar of mistwalker, thex dagger and guise screwing around in toxx forest killing snakes.

These are comparable situations, and they either should both be accepted or both not be accepted.

edit: In fact, the worse situation is the guy who created the level 1 and spent an evening in toxx. he invested much less time for far greater reward

[zianlo1]

That whole dev favortism thing again, aint it! Conspiracy! And yeah, My vote = he did the time for the leveling over a period of months, he just waited to turn the quest in til it gave him xp. No different than people doing the same with bone chips to get faction with cabilis or (if cb belts/pads were stackable) the same with crushbone belts and shoulderpads as mentioned already.

There is no difference in the way the quest was done and completed other than the level difference. Sometimes the devs are right, but this isnt one of them, Hobby.

[Sponge]

It's like going to college, you know it'll take awhile but in the end it will pay off.