This is sort of depressing.Follow

Yup, I am from windurst, and I like the maze, I dread valkurm, everytime I go there, I either wait for 2 hours doing nothing, or I get into a horrible group and get nothing done. But I don't like being a leader, so starting up a group to go elsewhere isn't for me. I like the maze because you are right there from tarohgi canyon, which is an excelent place to solo or group from 11-15, better I think then the highlands. The zones seem the same on the surface, but when you walk through them they seem so much more different in little ways. This basically means I can solo/farm while I wait for a maze group.

The problem is there isn't enough people around, you will be lucky if you find any whm, let alone one in your level range since everyone has gone to valkurm, but ya, most of the people that don't go to these places are people that just can't stand them because of the idiots, meaning they know that there is the dim chance for better. If you do make a party, and ask people from valkurm/qufim/khazam to go elsewhere, and they say, "No way, this place is the only place for exp." You know they are not very great players and just sheep. Great players are willing to go out and find that fabled sweet spot to get 3 levels in one hour and have everyone in the group laugh at how they will afford the next 10 levels of armor by tomorrow.

And besides possibly getting nice exp, exploring is fun, when i ran through mariphataud mountians and saw that big spiny thing I was like, "OMFG!" My 5 year old nephew was like, "Are you going to fight that thing?" and I was like, "I hope not!" I bet there is stuff like that all over that half the people in the game haven't seen.

And all FF's seem to have this problem (at least the ones I have played), the same models with different names. They did a real nice job on the models they have, but they sure didn't make many, or even make them unique. At least in EQ they change size, get new skins, ect, so you would get tiny snakes, spiders and rats to start, then you would get bigger, and bigger ones with all manner of different colors and textures. Additionally every EQ expansion I saw (Kunark/Velious) had 90% new mobs, maybe even 99% new, if they are using the same old models in the expansion, well that is inexcusable.

Well yeah it is, but theres two options:

Go to a place that has Easy prey or decent and kill everything in your path..

OR

While in Qufim, just keep chaining clippers and pugils away from all te ppl.. clipp times three then 2 pugils, ull be 28 in no time (considering that you dont have the typical "I want to go into the tower" kind of guy, or the "afk 1 sec" every 2 minutes)