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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This person speaks the truth. Most players want to enjoy the new seasonal content, not grind 20-30 power levels with just old content first. This is NOT common in games like this. I started playing final fantasy 14 the mmo. Its patch content (like a season) provides a story quest that brings players just under the gear score needed for the new raid. Players are not expected to grind old content, they get right to the new stuff.