spathic wrote on Mar 8^th, 2013 at 12:31pm:


my first tr took about 4months.

I was also playing 15 other characters at the time........and was trying to decently outfit two characters for endgame.

but I didn't use xp pots.

People on Sarlona have been doing 8 hour TRs with stones + 50% pots.

Dr_tank2vich wrote on Mar 8^th, 2013 at 2:35pm:


Gfy.

Today I learned:


Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down...

Cripey wrote on Mar 8^th, 2013 at 4:05pm:


Calm down before you implode yourself.

Dr_tank2vich wrote on Mar 8^th, 2013 at 5:04pm:


That is a perfectly valid point. I saw someone else put some math up, saying something like 110 playing hours for them. If you don't have some of the packs that let you farm some good xp quests, or just don't like farming, maybe its 200 hours. If it takes you six months to invest that in a character that's what it takes.

The main lesson here is; never miss a chance the Thrudh bash.

Cripey wrote on Mar 8^th, 2013 at 4:05pm:


mutha fuck me gaaahhh!

spathic wrote on Mar 8^th, 2013 at 12:31pm:


Took me from MOTU release to December to get back my TRed character into Druid to 20, playing her every time possible, catching all the TR Guild Trains I could...
I"m not one of the guild expert TR ( they can get a char back to 20 in about a month or two ), I'm not a flower sniffer either. 
Now my guild is on the casual side, even if we have several dedicated players.

See, that's the thing that people don't talk about. They talk about the number of days and bash each other on both sides when the number of days (or weeks, or months) is almost irrelevant.

It's the number of hours spent playing that matters. Outside of the limiting factor that there are 24 hours in a day and presumably some are spent eating, sleeping, or on the crapper (and assuming you're not eating on the crapper with a laptop playing DDO) the number of days to TR simply doesn't matter. That's just stating what percentage of your time is spent on your hobby.

Now, there are more efficient levelers and less efficient levelers. Some due to skill, some simply due to enjoying inefficient play styles (PuG'ing for instance ). But an efficient player using the best methods will still take more than 4 weeks to TR if they're playing 4 hours a week.

I would definitely be interested in seeing some non-quest timer based TR time numbers. Someone using the most efficient leveling methods possible who logs the amount of time spent logged in to the character to get from level 1 to level 20. I think the number would surprise a lot of people on both sides of the discussion.

Darkrok wrote on Mar 13^th, 2013 at 12:15pm:


go look up the mr cow diaries.

karatekid wrote on Mar 13^th, 2013 at 3:25pm:


because people are known to do stupid things, like arguing over who is right on an internet forum 

AtomicMew wrote on Mar 13^th, 2013 at 11:01pm:


I remember that post.  I seem to recall he was spanked for it...  Amusing...