Its been a long run for me. Started on Xian when there were only 3 servers, 60cap, no autopot, no bots, and nice ppl. Made a STR Hybrid glaiver
The moved to Venice and began visiting this site, started a INT Spear, and later made Hybrid. By the time I was in Venice, it was the 70 cap and hand grinding was still reasonable. I was able to reach lvl 69 in roughly 7 months (that's no farming either). Then came the 80 cap (no new skills) and I saw the huge spike in xp and sp needed for the future and I gave up being legit. I wanted to keep playing because this game is fun and the friends I made. I also botted due to college applications that need to be done.
I never acted "All mighty" or pretended to be legit. Well I never really said anything =P All I did was pass on the information that I knew and hope that it would be of some use to ppl.
To all those that were legit to lvl 80: I tip my hat off to you for being stronged willed enough to truck on with the hand-grinding and continue to deal with the server traffic. Best of Luck inside the game and continue to have fun.
To SuicideGirl: I thankyou for that Hybrid Spear guide which helped me make a fun character I stuck to for 2+ years.
And finally to SRF: I repect your movement to run out all the bots within this forum (hence why I am confessing). Hope this decrease your workload and also best of luck to continue to support the legit community =)
Goodbye xD