the game is very enjoyable. i love trying out new builds and different angles on new builds.

but there is a time wall to this. i cannot play at home and stick to 'expanded' lunch hours to be online. being able to cut 25% to 40% of the time it takes to try out an idea from levels 1-40 or even at hero would be pretty huge to me. being able to grab a rank or two a session when forced to do it solo? awesome. but doing half a rank a day is a lot less enticing.

i almost always miss out on the double exp because of hours and inability to do much on the weekend. even with double exp, that only goes so far solo.

**i say solo because that's just the way the cookie seems to crumble. i like to play against the grain which means there's generally no band-wagon to hop on board.

thus, npc groupmates as real groupmates really does make the game genuinely more enjoyable.