Originally Posted by
StrawberryZebra
It was more prevalent during the first few days, things have settled down now, though it does still sometimes happen. Hit just seems to be the stat people use to measure how good someones gear is, and mine is admittedly horrible right now. Anything that would be a significant upgrade tends to require Planewalker: Water, which I've not got yet. To top it off, for whatever reason most of the Mage rewards have lots of crit power, but give you very little crit chance to along with it. The end result is I've got 14% extra crit damage, but just over 5% chance to actually crit, (that's without the Mastery that gives you 7% damage in exchange for -4% crit chance, before anyone asks).
Thanks for the daily quest map. They do only give just over 200k XP for me, but its a lot better than nothing at least.
Rumour has it that people hit level 65 in under 5 hours anyway. I'm not sure if those are true or not, but it seems pretty likely given that people were hitting 65 on release day.
To be clear, to make up the last half a level it is going to take either 50 story quests, 100 side quests or daily quests or around 200 carnage quests. Alternatively, it would take around 200 IA's. If I chose to just grind it out it would take about 3000 kills, and considering that most mobs have over 200k health, they do take a decent length of time to kill. I'm not sure where you got the impression that there is only a "little" gap to fill, the gap is so wide that people could easily fall into it and never be seen again.
To help put it in perspective, its an entire zones worth of content.
As it stands right now, there just isn't enough content to get you from 60 to 65 without using XP boosts. This should probably concern most longtime Rift players far more than being able to hit 65 quickly, its a huge barrier to new players. Even the ones who don't pay a penny are still content for people who are, without them its going to make filling up your raids much harder, dungeon and PvP queues are going to be longer, etc etc.