About a year to get my first character to level 80, with plenty of breaks in between. I switch to alts a lot. :P

My 71 fighter was my first character. I made him in July, so........about 5 months.

Level 62 in two months, no cash shop items.

Started in September 2007. Stopped playing around... April? March? Play less when I have classes of course. Didn't play that much in the end of summer. My highest character is 50.

I felt less motivated to grind around level 39 and took a break around level 41 or 42 I think (April/March). Was motivated again on the desire to get to 50 (Summer) and it kind of died down again (End of Summer). Plus, I have school.

It's not really that the archers are faster to level up with...I guess...hmm after making a number of characters and going through lvl1-30/40 quite a few times, I taught myself how to level up fast, grind on what when ^^
If you want some pieces of advice, feel free to pm me about it

It has taken me since OB to get a 74 Cleric, 63 Mage, 63 Fighter, and a 50 Archer.

But, what you also have to take into consideration; was for those of us that have been playing since the beginning, it was not easy to level. They have made the game so much easier now than when we were grinding to high levels.

We did not have the extra exp now given in quests or less mobs to kill for the early quests. Also, a lot of the mobs in the lower level maps that they have made non-agro’ing, were agro when we were little noobs.

as pf now i have a character in each class and they are all around lvl 20 but my high level main is my cleric also known as monkey_daddy and i started him around a month ago and i got to lvl 51 last night. I also dont have much of a life and recently have just started getting on fiesta for the stimulating conversation offered by friends and guild members.

it took my cleric maybe 1 month? its easy when you grind in abyss ! :urweird:

ps// maplestory develops too fast ! i had a lvl 105 priest but i didnt play the game for about 6 mths. when i returned, i was dumbfounded by how much the game developed and gave it all up! so i turned to fiesta HAHAA :arg:

my main is lvl63 :S i started playing her beginning of January '08..
she would be 7x if i played her more though xD

51 In like 5-6 months. My PC crashed for a few months, so I feel behind my peers. i had some good high level pals and I grinded a lot in the beginning versus completing quests.