Share your MMO roadblocks.

What's a roadblock? it's a point in most MMOs (usualy there are more then one of these points in an MMO but one major one) where you cannot progress any further because you either

A. need alot of organizing to do so (needing a group of certain classes on at a certain time so you can goto a dungeon that's the only decent exp at your level).

B.needing vast amounts of in game currency to progress.

C.Other factor depending on the game.

if you decide to progress without accomplishing what's blocking you it's going to be painfully slow.


so here are some of my stuck points in various MMOs


MapleStory

Spoiler

150+ for I've only once gotten past 160 mainly because of Skill Books just on my DS alone I had to shove out 1.5b just to get Barricade Mastery and Demon Impact to 30 each. even with some damn good funds your own classes skills might prove rarer to get then 3 line unique equips.

then you're left with a choice keep leveling without your skills or stop and either
A.fork out hard earned cash to sell NX items to get mesos to get thebooks.
B.spend months buying low selling high to get the books
C.farm MMBs

I have no idea how a majority of players get their skillbooks but for me it was a hell that slowed me down to a hault.
aside from that past level 160 grinding on 1x is horribly slow/borring and everything that's supposed to be entertaining is either bugged/out of reach/you have to wait a long time to do it. like Zakum,HT,PB. not to mention the later two require organizing which just means you'll spend hours waiting and waiting and not progressing at all.

Cabal Online

Spoiler

In Cabal leveling/getting skills/progressing is pretty damn fast untill you reach around level 110.

it's possible to do 65-100 in less then 4 hours in Cabal doing the right solo instances.
if you do them a few more times you can get to 110 but past that point you try and goto higher leveled areas and you realize that everything will require you to have a party and even then with the undoubtedly 90% clean equips you'll be using at that level you'll realize you are a glass cannon ,even if you're playing a warrior.

at which point you'll realize that even with the 100m or so from quests (if you've done them ) you can barely get enough gear to fight two mobs at once (and this is a game where mobbing 20 enemies is totally normal) so essentially you have to spend hours farming for a chance to get something decent enough to get you through a dungeon that's recomended level (last time I checked, they keep changing it ) is 85. ... at level 120.

the sheer feeling of helplessness however and realizing how much work you have to do and even after doing all of it you're still entirely pomegranatety compared to most players causes most people I know to quit

Aion

Spoiler

around level 26 you begin to realize that all the good exp quests are either gone or impossible to complete on your own. meaning you either need someone higher leveled to do it for you or you need to go to an instance where you'll wait an hour to two hours for a decent group to goto a dungeon where you'll most likley D/C or someone will lag attracting more mobs then the group can handle.

If you do try to grind you'll die a million times trying to reach a decent place to level or spend hours to level

Just to clarify. Road Blocks are not points that you cannot progress beyond but points that slow your progress to a hault.

So share some of yours !

I can't merchant for the life of me.

Maple-170~
Honestly, what's the point anymore besides becoming stronger and grinding at LHC/SH?

Nexon doesn't like updating their games for newer hardware.

Conquer Online, circa 2004-2005

Power levelling (p-levelling) was a required part of the game for high levels. Basically if you leeched up low levels, you got points you could use for something or other, I think it was access to the highest level area in the game, not sure now. Being leeched was also by far and away the best experience around. I rarely begged high levels to leech me and as a result levelled unbelievably slow compared to my peers, my highest level character was level 87, my second being level 51, both mostly trained myself at excruciatingly slow rates. I also got hacked twice, gave the account away then it got hacked again.

Guild Wars

Max level (20) Dervish. Hard Mode was improbable with any configuration of 6 AI party members for 2 players, impossible solo.

Maple Story

Countless classes/levels. Hopelessly limited bosses with archaic and exploitable entry systems and glitched HT, between them they have ensured that I have never seen an end-game boss in a serious run context. Mastery books were small bumps in the road, I played without the more expensive skills until I could afford to pass them, usually having to partake in merchanting to do so although these days mining is a viable if somewhat slow money-maker as well. The economy as a whole is far too easy to manipulate by hackers and people with tons of mesos, and this can easily screw over thousands of regular players who don't play the market (myself included) in various nefarious ways in less than a day of trading.

Not necessarily to do with the game itself, but a mental roadblock of mine was that you know everything you do can be done by someone richer in much less time and with less investment in emotion and they will sure as hell let you know about it. In essence if you're a regular player, virtually everything you do is worthless and you have to acknowledge that being rubbed in your face on a fairly regular basis to continue playing. That for me combined with the resulting USA-style inequality between hackers/the rich and regular players was bitter medication to take in what is supposed to be a game designed for entertainment and it stalled my own progress more than once.

Most of my problems in MMOs are social and not having sufficient connections to do things, which one could argue is the entire point of an MMO. Without connections in MMOs you're going to have a bad time. Also free2play-pay2win systems have a huge roadblock in the form of whatever currency they're charging you for built into them in any case.