By Unicorn.Rilu 2010-04-22 11:56:03
One of the biggest aspects of the game that people don't always pay attention to is Experience - not EXP you gain from sitting and thwaking colibri or crabs for hours on end, but experience in fighting different monsters in different scenarios.
Bst offers the player the opportunity to actually learn the job, learn the game - properties of each monster in the game, how pets work, how to manage hate, how to manage pulls using pets, how to utilize job abilities to survive different situations etc.
I can tell, after playing the game for 7 years, the differece between a player that just Astral Burned his character to 75 vs the player that actually learned the job (beyond the fact that their magic skill is extremely undercapped, as well as skills and weapon skill levels) - generally the skill level (yes, it does exist) is lacking, as well as performance in crucial situations of a battle (when things start going badly) decline when the person hasn't really Experienced the job, but only "EXP'd" it.
To each his/her own on how they decide to experience this game, it is after all, a game. But for me, I would rather rely on someone with Experience at their job, not just EXP.