It is by far the most efficient strategy to level your character. If the game had a more efficient leveling system built into it's more legitimate systems we would be utilizing that. Many other games have leveling systems that put you close to end game levels at the end of story content. So you don't have to work as hard. This game makes you play hours upon hours, days upon weeks even, to get to end game levels. And it makes you play content we've already been playing up to this point.
TLDR: If you Make a better leveling experience, you will get more players who want to engage with it And not *want* to find the exploits.
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I mean, I managed to get 1060+ with all 3 characters without needing to use the AFK forge glitch. It's not efficient at all. Sure, if you're someone who can't play often or only play a single character it's efficient for you, but I'm telling you, 3 chars is the way to go.