Hehe, just wait to see how it feels when a week after a league goes live, there characters of higher level than you could achieve after playing the game for 2-3 years. Huge part of the reason I had to let PoE go.
Eh, 1 week? I was seeing level 86 pop up the day after release...
I handled that very easily: I don't play the leagues like races. They have races, and I don't play those like races either. I just play them for the fun elements, like the messy one a few months ago, where there were uniques dropping all over the place.
I play the game to have fun, the way
I want to play it. Main reason I don't PVP: I don't like it. I prefer co-op, or PVE. If some guy wants to take a pre-made planned out path to rush to the top of the league scoreboard, good for him. I hope he enjoys it. I don't see how, but I guess if you've played long enough, it's all just background noise at that point. I don't like to play that way. Even while grinding for an Oni this past weekend, I enjoyed seeing the Starfish on the beach in the Strand, and trying to beat the surf up the beach
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I enjoy the game. If I had to try to compare my progress/play style/"achievements" to someone else, it would start to feel too much like work: something I had to do. Who the hell wants to work at a game? That's why I quit WoW: it was feeling too much like a job. Get up, grind dailies, go to work. Come home, grind battlegrounds, more dailies, craft, go to bed... That took away the fun of just flying around Irongforge, or the Swamps... What the hell.... Why torture yourself, ya know?