Any Dev update on Ragnarok Level Requirement?

[Maroon]

[quote author=Maroon link=topic=15568.msg123693#msg123693 date=1373324087]
39 for me here. Although it indeed can be annoying if people just at level 39 join, making it 52 only or worse, hero only, would sort of cripple a part of the economy, as only a select few would have access to high-end crafting materials, and thus "control" the market for high-end weapons and armor. It would, in my eyes, be an unfair penalty for not having spent 100 full runs into one character.
Edit: I could also live with 45 or 44 as a compromise, to decrease the amount of freshly tier 4's on the Ragnarok servers, as you only need half of the exp for 52 to get to 44-45.

I agree with some of your points but it really does not take that long to get to level 52 playing Hard mode but yes maybe hero class is a bit steep.
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It might not take long to get there for some people, but I myself haven't got a single 52 character after almost a year of playing NI, which is probably because I just don't always have the time to play it, and I switch between my chars a lot (until about a month ago).
I mean, from what I've heard, you need to get just under 1 mil exp to get to level 52, right? For me, on a full Hard Mode run, I get about 22k assist exp, and maybe 4k exp from my own kills, which adds up to 15k exp, if I put it all in melee. This means I would have to complete 67 full runs of Hard Mode, which is not going to happen, as you don't get all your exp from full Hard Mode runs.
So let's say I get 1/3 of my exp from these runs. This means that I still have to complete about 45 runs, and a lot of random stuff, like a bit of normal, or solo-ing.
Now, I don't know how many runs you do in a week, but I'd say I get about 1-2 per week, and some random runs as well. that would total at about 25-35k per week, meaning I have to play for 30-35 weeks to get from level 1 to 52, all on one character, not counting the fact that I can't use Hard for the first 150k exp.

Yay for maths. ^^

P.S. Not saying this to rant on the exp being too high or something, just calculating how long 1 char would take me to level.