Shattered Kingdoms

can you please increase the density/amount of NPCs in:

A'van Keep guards and elite guards
Tlaxcala priests

with new, sweet leveling spots like virgins and Ash Valley those old areas can really use some more

There are other areas to train in, you do not have to follow the "standard" leveling path that everyone seems to want to follow. Explore and find other NPC's to level off of instead of sitting around waiting for these NPC's

In general this is pretty bad advice and you should probably feel bad for giving it.

There's a reason the standard path is standard, and it's not because there's a ton of equal or better choices in locations to level in.

Indeed, that is terrible advice.

Its fair advice. The path is standard because its the optimum path that had been found and shared to the general community as of some date.

That does not mean its the guaranteed most optimum path, because most people aren't explorers and are unwilling to try other options when "the gospel" is presented by their peers.

It also ceases to be even the known most optimum path if so many people use it simultaneously that you are forced to wait extra time for respawn.

Either way, increasing the respawn rate of an optimum path is not something that makes sense. It would make more sense to either increase other zones to make them more competitive as alternatives (if the optimum path represents the desired leveling speed) or to decrease spawn rate/density in the other zones on the path (if leveling is too fast).

The above takes as given that its already possible to optimally level a character to GM too quickly. People can argue with that, but that is my position.

Anyone who complains about leveling hasn't discovered other places to train nor better methods.

Perhaps someone should post a leveling guide aside from the other 4 that can be found on another site.

I'm just going to touch on this point by saying that in no way ever anywhere in this game is this true. The amount of enforced downtime during leveling in this game is...eye-bleedingly high.

Perhaps you would be better suited playing races with naturally higher charisma instead of dumping that stat and coming here to complain about how slow leveling is.

Oh! Sick burn! 'Cause, of course, you know the race of the last character I attempted to level. And what my nat cha was. And that I obviously dumped it.

1-2 minutes of activity (a bit higher as a fighter class) vs 5-10 minutes of downtime where your options are to spam who, info, or other reporting commands rather than interacting with the game in a meaningful way is not a good ratio.

Dulrik can leave the leveling curve at whatever point he wants to, I just know I'm not alone in the fact that the very thought of going through that is exhausting to the point where I just go play a different game instead.

Ur character build guide says that charisma is least important. Sounds to me like you want something for nothing.