Don't you hate leveling?

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I got banned. Yep. Newbie mistake. Finally getting into botting and wet behind the ears, didn't change the default keys, nor did I really understand just how vicious Blizzard was.

Personally looking back it felt like forever leveling that damn charater. Almost made it to 60. Truth be told, I haven't dinged 60 yet. Since the ban quite a few months ago, coming back to WoW was pulling teeth. I loved my damn warlock, and I took the risk of botting.

Seems like I've been leveling forever to get to the end-game content. Life starts at 60, so they say. Not having a higher level char to pull your ass out when you're camped at STV is a pain in the ass. Not having enough gold and wishing you had a 70 to farm a little for your lowbie would be a nice feeling.

Truthfully, I hate leveling. Yeah, it's a baptism by fire and it's a rite of passage but it's still terribly life-draining. I'm using guides and all the goodies. Not botting, of course. This time around I'm leveling faster, but ultimately when I'm grinding out the rest of a level I watch 5, 10, 12 hours slide on by and I have a level and a half to show for it, which makes me almost depressed.

I come from a game called Neocron. Loved that damn game. Wasn't TOO long to cap, but capping was just the start. It could take a week max to cap a second char and you'd be off to PvP and so on. MMOFPS thing. Small game. Anyway, moving on.

Neocron was a grindfest. No quests. Just grinding. Spot A, grind for x amount of time, Spot B, AoE for y hours, cap. I'm used to that, but when I came to wow and tried to grind my way.. Jesus, I burnt out. I grinded all the way to 50. Had two purples under my belt (Grinding gives you more percentage at a world drop by pure amount of looting you do.) but that didn't keep me from completely wasting an entire month snarling at the WoW Icon on my desktop.

Anyway, I needed some encouragement and mostly needed to vent. I'll look back at this post a year from now and laugh a little. Everyone needs some history, 'eh? This time I'm getting to 60, and THEN to 70. Damn. I wish I didn't bot. No, I wish I READ a little more and understood what I was doing. Didn't slackware teach me anything?