@Khaylara
Yeah, I've seen posts about it, but it just hasn't been the case in my experience, however I always have been playing in less active hours.
Well yeah, if you spend your time playing music and growing veggies, you'd be leveling up your performance and gardening skills, I think, which is fine but I meant grindy as in leveling up your combat stats, which takes some grinding to do, or so I've been told.
Yeah, I can see how it'd be hard to understand if you were a veteran player. It's just a new experience entirely for me, especially with how quests are mandatory and not just focusing on one/two stats at a time. But thanks for the advice, I'll definitely check out some life skills. I've already leveled up a bit in pathology.
Yeah, I'm used to more easy-going mmorpgs that tell you at least a general direct to go, and I'll just have to get used to game and take those speed bumps and learn from them. Yeah, not really sure who pissed in that dudes cereal, but I'm sure it was only a small part of the friendly community I'll hopefully uncover.