man, this game is revolved around a community. That includes buying, selling, trading, grouping up to take down tough mobs on hunts to gain mad xp. You may choose to play the game alone and not get any help, but that’s not how it was intended so you are buying your own struggles. I only started playing a week or two before you showed up and I have almost 2 level 50 characters, a full blown forge open for anyone that needs to use it with about 500k credit values worth of power coils and have my own gem tools out the butt. I work 6 days a week and only play late at night for a few hours after work on a typical day so I don’t even sit here and grind all day. Everything you are experiencing is your choice to play alone. Its not poor game mechanics or “brain dead devs” like you’ve said in the past. Its your own personal preference. If you don’t want to use the mechanics implemented, then hate the player, not the game.
I do have experience of the nerfs. I am only a few weeks old. Don’t bother with titanium tools. Buy gem tools till you can make your own. Make use of the shops - they obviously gave me a huge advantage over you, selling my excess and sometimes a portion of my gems for example at first. Till I found a few shops paying decent money for stuff I could easily farm in little time. (I haven’t sold a gem since). - I don’t intend on making any coils or food myself I am just buying them with excess gathered materials, at least in the medium term.
All this means my grind is obviously very different to yours, it means I give a little time of gathered mats and gain more progress than you.
Oh and I just gained two levels with my hunter in maybe an hour and a half. Solo’d a couple of meteors on Munteen, he’s up to that level with his impulse resist/armor but needs some more kinetic for the elite wildstock. - Teaching pies and hunters are the easiest to level but the grind isn’t what you make it out to be, if you use the market and shops to your advantage. Especially if you buy pies persisting for money and teaching for xp (plots).
There was however a hump or slowdown at my late twenties leveling 3 alts, but that hump for me was understanding what is easily gathered and what sells relatively well, also keeping stuff stocked in case someone wants 20,000 soil (that was a lol moment for me :D, only had 5k sadly heh)
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pls guys, always remember what we are doing here, we decided by oursleves to buy this game and to support it in this phase… things can’t puff on game all fully completed, they will be completed during time… in my country we have a motto:
you may understand things only once they are completed
wich means: if you don’t understand something, most probably it’s because his action is not finished