Quote Originally Posted by darkchrono View Post
Do you still have to do a whole lot of monster bashing in order to do anything on this game. That is what killed all the enjoyment for me with games like this. Monster bashing is fun for about ten minutes then it just gets ridicuously old.

Have they improved the leveling systems in recent years or is it still as horrible as it was when you had to do mindless monster bashing for hours on end just to be strong enough to get to the next zone without getting creamed.
They did their best to specifically avoid that levelling process. Most monsters give pitiful exp, while quests give quite a lot. And there are very few regular "go kill this many monsters" quests that are main quests, most get put aside into bonus quests, which pop up while you're doing other quests and disappear just as quickly. It sounds weird, but it actually works really well, in my opinion.