Basically my only comment on this. This isn't a grinding mmo its a storyline one if your playing it to grind to the max to get to the endgame content then its just not the game for you. I'm almost to 50 after a few weeks during the free time on my vacation, so no its not hard to get to the max level, that's just not the point of the game. It's mainly a game to get in depth with the story and i think they did a great job on it.