Kimberlite wrote on Oct 21
st, 2013 at 8:44pm:
Having never played a Korean MMO, I have a question for those people who would always reply that DDO is nowhere near as grindy as a Korean MMO.
Are we there yet?
no. ddo is nothing like even close to a korean (grinding) mmo. for me, ddo is heaven (altho i hate tr'ing, dun ask me why).
to give u an example:
I've played Kal Online, a somewhat small korean rather pvp mmo with a really horrible GM support who will just fuck up pvp system when they want it and u have no real forum to complain about it

u can send a ticket every 24h which is answered within 48h with 80% auto reply. Max level is currently 100.
I've reached almost 86, my friend was level 91, close to 92.
this means that ive done:
level 85 to 86: 38,172,360,013 EXP
level 1 to 86 is a total of 162,952,251,871 EXP
my friend was at level 91,8
91->92: 136,782,053,544 EXP
level 1 to 92: 675,444,824,767 EXP
see the exp curve massively increased.
to give u an exp relation:
a mob gives ~ 35k (exp farm spot with permanently respawning mobs, u need at least 1 or 2 lurers, healer, depending on ur gear) to 400k exp (solo leveling spot, u have to lure the mobs which respawn after 10sec if you dont dmg them)
apart from this, u have almost no drops to finance ur exp pots cuz of a horrible drop rate. buying rebirth scrolls when you die costs 5 scrolls for ~ 7euro or buying them ingame from shops for 1,75 mill per scroll. You
need those because u lose 10 (1st death in the level) - 60% (highest % possible to lose) of your exp if you die. Especially on high levels u cant play without these scrolls. Mobs hit up to 1,5-2,5k dmg compared to ur hp which is 12-20k hp. if u lure 20-40 mobs and dont have enough evasion, ur very much dead so you need best gear to level :p I know people that spent 4000 (!!!) euro for a set of gear + weapon. Apart from that, the currency is very valuable.. Ive sold 1,8 billion coins for ~800eur^^ 1,4 billion were bought by 1 single guy to gear out his just bought level 89 Archer (for a not named amount of euro. he said it was expensive so i believe it was above 700eur for a clean char).