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 would agree, I did everything legit, getting my character to 1033 power I have 3 pinnacles left which are Master nightmare hunts Night Fall, and the new dungeon, all content I would not be able to complete efficiently with out getting my level higher. I'm leveling to be Trials ready. I thought I was leveling pretty well until I saw a ton of people around 1050. Looked up what was going on found out about the AFK farming tried it over the weekend went up 15 lvls and got to enjoy a Sunday away from the game.