It is by far the most efficient strategy to level your character. If the game had a more efficient leveling system built into it's more legitimate systems we would be utilizing that. Many other games have leveling systems that put you close to end game levels at the end of story content. So you don't have to work as hard. This game makes you play hours upon hours, days upon weeks even, to get to end game levels. And it makes you play content we've already been playing up to this point.
TLDR: If you Make a better leveling experience, you will get more players who want to engage with it And not *want* to find the exploits.
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The players who afk farm, are scum. Period. Don't spin it as if the game had X or Y, you wouldn't. Just admit you are that player that would exploit for an advantage and move on. In fact, why even bother coming here to make yourself feel better about wasting other people's time who might be trying to forge weapons in the....forge? I mean it is weak to afk farm, but then to come to the forums and try to justify it because you feel bad? Man that is another level of weaksauce.