Daomei (Leanon)
I beg your pardon, but you are talking rubbish about something you obviously haven't tried and don't understand..
Well I certainly do. I completed all of the Basic Occs but w/o the benefit of being handed 100% occ recipes simply because when I did the occs, no one else had done most of them. Had help w/ 1st 2 or 3 but then interest waned and was a solo effort for most part. Butcher was a PITA doing solo.
For the non spoon fed, it takes a lot longer than the time you describe. But it was fun figuring them out so I didn't see it as a time investment issue. I very much enjoyed the basic occs... adv occs ... not so much.
On the other hand, using your own words about how long it takes to make 1500 cats, the fact remains if I simply grind a skill for that time, I'm getting more XP. When It takes longer to make the cats than it does to use them, it's a negative sum game.
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