I wanted to posts something similar on this forum today. I also just hit lvl 217 with my wiz3ele3 and am kinda stuck now. My gripe isnt that i have to party, i dont care about that, just drop in at a party and grind a little, then leave when you dont wanna continue or dont have time anymore.
My problem is little more serious than just “i dont wanna party”. The problem is, that, just like you mentioned, we have to grind in thos map until 230 because there are no alternatives. And even after that we have to grind all the way up to 280.
Just look at the truffle spots. Today i met one other group there. Even staying in one single channel killing them at their 4 preferred spawn points we had a down time of around 2 minutes or more. So the only way to really grind there in a somewhat acceptable fashion is to swap channels. Now that was with just 2 groups. Just wait a couple more weeks and that map will be swarming with players, especially at the evening prime time. That means if everyone wants to get a share you would have to stay at one single spawn point in a single channel, then 12 groups each have their own spot. So you kill 10 mobs and then wait 2-3 minutes for a proper respawn. Sometimes a couple more spawn earlier, but the big numbers tend to spawn after a few minutes only.
This is no way to enjoy leveling and grinding. And there is absolutely no alternatives. Getting in a dungeon, that probably only gives marginal exp, takes 3h for 3 runs, because there are either no players or the queue bugs out countless times. And even then, after runs its back to grinding to get the other 90% youre still missing.
This needs to be changed. Either we need unlimited dungeon runs or the spawn time needs to be at 10s. E.g. your group camps one spot, kills 12 mobs, then waits 10s and another 12 pop up. That way you can kill and kill and kill with no down time having a funy massacre. Or if we can enter dungeons non stop we can at least have decent mob density for a group. I really love killing mobs in this game, its satifactory. But having to wait minutes to keep killing is utterly boring. Aside from grinding theres no alternative, so at least let us have fun grinding. We need something like demon prison lvl 2 across all the level ranging from 210 to 280 with even better respawns. Just remove drops and silver if you care about inflation, but give us exp.
Btw adding more channels to these maps wont help. To farm somewhat decently right now you need to go through 4 spots in 3 channels. Do you wanna add 100 channels? Also switching channels is annoying, the last 5% of the lading screen take 90% of the time, from 8 to 20s occasinally, im getting really enraged by that after a while.