When 'grinding' is good

[IAMEPSIL0N]

It is good when you understand from the start that it is going to be there and that progress will be paced by it as it annoys me when I suddenly hit a grind wall where there is no new content for like ten levels when previously there had been new stuff every two or three.

I do not like the AFK time sinks that certain games have added in the way of mining, fishing, gathering, etc. It should be something I can do when my friends or guild members are offline not something we all have to log in twelve hours a day and bank up the supplies for generic story quest NPC to let us pass.

I also do not like when games randomly throw some ridiculous numbers into some game process and it becomes completely useless unless you have sunk X many days of real time grind into the relevant skill.

I do have to admit I prefer needing to grind in game over the progress over downtime based games that have become popular in recent years as it just seems stupid when a game tells me that after five minutes of actions to come back in twelve hours and there is nothing to do besides chat with friends who also can't do anything in game for hours.

 

[Fractral]

I love grinding in games like Kingdom Hearts and Shin Megami Tensei, I love seeing your work pay off!

I only play Pokemon with traded pokemon because grinding in those games sucks because the combat is so damn slow.

I may play Black again soon, does the extra experience from traded pokemon still work?

Yup and I think they may have boosted the extra exp even further this time, my traded ones usually get about 2000-5000 exp I shit you not.


Though they are from Events so that may be why.

I am restarting Black and I will use my sisters White (she doesn't play it anymore) to trade Samurott, Emboar, Serperior, Galvantula, Golurk and Excadrill! *bad-ass team*

I hope to do this by the time Black and White 2 come out.

You'd be better off just trading the lower-levelled versions if you're just starting, because if you trade them at a high level they won't listen to you.

Plus if you trade them at a low level it'll be like you have just caught them, albeit with a lot more XP

One of the cool new features of Gen V is that now you don't have to trade a shitty Pokemon for a good one, you can just give one without needing anything in return.

Yeah, I know the (Exca)drill (lol, bad puns) I'l probably trade a Tepig, Snivy, Oshowatt, Joltik and the Golurk and Excadrill pre-evolutions (forget their names)

Looking forward to it, levels fly for traded Pokemon and that nothing in return feature is a godsend.

There's also the lucky egg, which was in the previous versions, but was very rare. In bw its now mandatory to get it to proceed the story. It gives a 1.5* exp mutliplier, which stacks with traded multipliers. I've had upwards of 14000 experience from a single pokemon before with both of those, although it was a level 65 audino.
OT: I enjoy the grinding in persona 3 up to a point. Generally when I've beaten all the avaliable tartarus bosses I stop grinding. I also liked grinding in FF13, though that may be because I really enjoyed the battle systems in both those games.

When do you get this glorious egg? (I left my file just before I fight the 5th gym leader)

Also, I'm sort of the opposite, after I beat the Tartarus bosses, I usually keep grinding, that glorious feeling after you beat a boss easily because you trained for it!

I didn't like grinding in FF13 because the combat felt boring for me (opinions) but I like grinding in FF13-2, at least the crystarium in that game didn't suck.

Its just after you beat the 5th gym leader actually- when you go to chargestone cave, north of Driftvale city. Professor Juniper meets you and gives you the egg as you enter. And yeah, I agree that in FF13-2 the crystarium was much better. It was a pain to try and level up a role that the character didn't start with- you end up having to use more than 10000 cp per level, even at role level 1. I just didn't really find much to grind against in FF13-2, although thats a good thing I guess. If you did most of the sidequests you were generally set for the bosses.

 

[Fractral]

I love grinding in games like Kingdom Hearts and Shin Megami Tensei, I love seeing your work pay off!

I only play Pokemon with traded pokemon because grinding in those games sucks because the combat is so damn slow.

I may play Black again soon, does the extra experience from traded pokemon still work?

Yup and I think they may have boosted the extra exp even further this time, my traded ones usually get about 2000-5000 exp I shit you not.


Though they are from Events so that may be why.

I am restarting Black and I will use my sisters White (she doesn't play it anymore) to trade Samurott, Emboar, Serperior, Galvantula, Golurk and Excadrill! *bad-ass team*

I hope to do this by the time Black and White 2 come out.

You'd be better off just trading the lower-levelled versions if you're just starting, because if you trade them at a high level they won't listen to you.

Plus if you trade them at a low level it'll be like you have just caught them, albeit with a lot more XP

One of the cool new features of Gen V is that now you don't have to trade a shitty Pokemon for a good one, you can just give one without needing anything in return.

Yeah, I know the (Exca)drill (lol, bad puns) I'l probably trade a Tepig, Snivy, Oshowatt, Joltik and the Golurk and Excadrill pre-evolutions (forget their names)

Looking forward to it, levels fly for traded Pokemon and that nothing in return feature is a godsend.

There's also the lucky egg, which was in the previous versions, but was very rare. In bw its now mandatory to get it to proceed the story. It gives a 1.5* exp mutliplier, which stacks with traded multipliers. I've had upwards of 14000 experience from a single pokemon before with both of those, although it was a level 65 audino.
OT: I enjoy the grinding in persona 3 up to a point. Generally when I've beaten all the avaliable tartarus bosses I stop grinding. I also liked grinding in FF13, though that may be because I really enjoyed the battle systems in both those games.

When do you get this glorious egg? (I left my file just before I fight the 5th gym leader)

Also, I'm sort of the opposite, after I beat the Tartarus bosses, I usually keep grinding, that glorious feeling after you beat a boss easily because you trained for it!

I didn't like grinding in FF13 because the combat felt boring for me (opinions) but I like grinding in FF13-2, at least the crystarium in that game didn't suck.

Its just after you beat the 5th gym leader actually- when you go to chargestone cave, north of Driftvale city. Professor Juniper meets you and gives you the egg as you enter. And yeah, I agree that in FF13-2 the crystarium was much better. It was a pain to try and level up a role that the character didn't start with- you end up having to use more than 10000 cp per level, even at role level 1. I just didn't really find much to grind against in FF13-2, although thats a good thing I guess. If you did most of the sidequests you were generally set for the bosses.

Sweet, so I go to chargestone cave, get the egg, get a Joltik and Drillbur (I think that's what they are called) and make a new file! Sweet, you can still trade items over via pokemon yes?

Also, where do you find the Golurk pre-evolution and how many badges do you need (I apologize for my lack of knowledge in B/W)

Its golett, and its found in the bottom levels of Dragonspiral tower, which is just north of Iccirus city. I think you need the 7th gym badge to get there. And yes, you can still trade items over with pokemon. Also, I think that drilbur can be found in most caves in the game, in the dust clouds.

 

[Phisi]

I enjoy grinding in Payday for more REP but that is an essential part of the game as you have to learn the heists to pull it off on the hardest difficulties. That is until I have peaked and my game is off and completely terrible. Speaking of my terrible game, grinding with hoes in da club is good

 

[rayman56]

When I read the title, I thought it was about the dancing type of grinding and I was gonna complain about the dances at my middle school were little 6th graders would do it.

OT: I mostly grind because I found some boss to be ridiculusly over my level, but I'd usally do a metric-butt ton of sidequests, because that works too.