I'm just not perfectionist at all about games, which is weird because I do swing that way outside of gaming. I want to make my monsters "cool" but don't need them to be "perfect." I want to catch quite a lot of 'em, not 'em all. Therefore, for me monster hunting is "hey cool a new thing" first and "maybe I can breed it into something cool" second, not "this will help me build this thing."
It could also just be me being lazy and not caring enough to figure out the optimal builds and how to get there. >_> I did get decently far into the higher ends of the ladder a couple of times, but there was never a chance of me maxing my stats or reaching DarkDrium.
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xfd dude, it's just a popularity contest on the internets.
~Vlado and/or BlAcK TuRtLe