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Your fingers went numb from grinding out anti-venom potions and refining some ranarr cactus for your Herblore skill. Now you’re dealing with a whole new kind of minigame where you’re not just doing the same click over and over but managing inventory. In Mastering Mixology, you are the customer, the supplier, and the manufacturer simultaneousy. … Read more

It begins when you create a character that feels awesome, but then you look up and find there are another ten systems to pay attention to. Before long, the main tank is still on tier three, while the secondary weapon become a novelty and crafting skill gets ignored. That’s the progress-trap where enthusiasm outpace resource … Read more

In Last War, leveling up heroes gets tricky. Experience points scale heavily as you get into higher level. You’ll pull a new unit, throw in some manuals, and watch them bump up their level fast. Then it slows down. At level 80 or 90, things starts getting serious again. Your common books runs out quickly … Read more

At level 40, with a clear head, you begin running laps at a reasonable pace. You can handle Canifis Rooftop and before long you’re clicking on each obstacle and raking in your marks of grace. It’s feeling productive; those experience number are ticking up. By the time you reach level 60, however, something changes: The … Read more

Between back-to-back meetings, you take a twenty-minute break and open your client to do just a few kills. Before you know it, two hours have passed and you’re sitting in front of a dead zone, ravenously hungry and praying for more prayer pots. The truth about gemstone crab training is that it’s a sloppy haggle … Read more

In RuneScape 3, we all know what it’s like to plan out a big ol’ skilling run only to be worried about the whole thing. I’m level X now, and I want to get to level Y… And then you realize how far away Y is. Instead of seeing Y as a point on the … Read more

There’s always a certain challenge when you come to realize that leveling up to 99 Fishing in Old School RuneScape requires longer than anticipated. That distance between where you are now to 99 might be a mere fraction of what you thought before a patch changes the landscape; it could be as simple as fifty … Read more

The Steam profile level system appears as a basic counter… But it’s also about trading cards and market timing. Even though you may have hundreds of game, it can be hard to find the right cards to fill out a single badge. This is where most people gets frustrated. They don’t know how much time … Read more

Construction training is something most people click away at like it’s nothing. Click, click, click. I use all this expensive material I just spent so much money on, and I still don’t feel any closer to leveling up. In reality there’s a dance between preserving resources while using your time efficienty. Sure you want to … Read more

By this point, you’re likely standing in front of Turael with a Slayer level high enough to tackle some tougher stuff. However, your combat skill are low compared to the creature you want to kill, and your backpack is empty. Rarely is it a decision of “which one has the best loot.” Instead, it’s nearly … Read more

ARK: Survival Evolved has a certain grindy fatigue to it. You spend hours sitting around crafting narcotics and wondering whether you should of eaten some broth or hunted down some Raptros instead. It’s busywork that feels like progress, but rarely feel efficient. In this case, its less about putting in the time and more about … Read more

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that casting the most powerful spell you’re able to learn will result in the most efficient magical training. Even if it might seem like a bigger number on paper, its typically an error. High level spells takes longer to cast and cost more mana. They are also often … Read more