[little ninja]

I seriously don't understand why the WoW "Bait and Switch" approach is so preferred. You can solo all the way to max level and then, they pull the switch on you - you can't do anything without anyone. At least FFXI and the old school MMOs don't bullshit you from the start like that.

And really, to level fast in any of these new, inbred MMOs, its still more efficient to PT. I should also point out that solo MMOs tend to foster piss-poor endgame alliance play. Its worse than the "every man for himself" meritpo situation in FFXI, in fact, it makes that horrorifically broken mess look preferable.

Yes you can have parties on other mmo's and make way better exp then you can solo. Then again in those same mmo's you can solo and actually take a chunk out of your TNL bar. Here we struggle to take down even the lowest of mobs to only see 20-45 exp. Which is fine if your a couple 100 from your next lvl. But when your staring at 10k+ tnl its a huge drawback.

I Then there is gear balance, or a complete lack of it in WoW MMOs. New Expansion? Har har har, all that cool endgame stuff is obselete now, gain 10 new levels and start from the bottom, your 1337 gears are now noob trash.

Well Wow may have an issue with gear balancing. Then again look at what the face as appose to S.E. S.E has job vs mob thats it. Doesn't seem like it be that hard to address. Yet its taken them the games span to try and touch it.While WoW on te other hand has job vs mob and job vs player. An if that wasn't bad enough. Then you throw in the different servers PvE, PvP, RP, Norm. It makes handling gear and job balancing allot harder.

We can always point out that Wow jobs are always trying to be balanced for all the different servers. Which makes it hard enough. Now throw in trying to balance them for the different raid lvls makes it allot harder. S.E took 2 years to give Bst snarl other jobs are still waiting for upgrades while Sam has gotten how many more abilities?

Sure there will be more lvls added to Wow. But that doesnt make the current gear obsolete. An sure there will be added gear that is far better. But isnt that part of the whole process in the game. Why should players have to rely on gear thats over 4 years old. Look Sky drops are still the main sought after items ingame and Zilart is how old? Sure you can point out salvage gear, assault gear. But then you'd just be contradicting yourself.

Sounds like you just failed at farming. Selphiie's farming guide shows a lot of worthwhile returns from NPC-able drops, its just they're not all equal. I'm not rolling in the gil on this game, but i don't I don't see the struggle people are having other than poorly managing thier time and in-game resources.

Most of the guide does point out allot of worthwhile camps. The main problem is if you don't have the proper job to farm the mobs or the proper lvls. Then most of it might not be useful to them just yet. On that note depending on their server Auction Housing might not be an option to them as well either. Bastok with 50 stacks of bee chips does not make it a worthwhile farming idea.