Battle Rant

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I have to complete 25 knutt knight quests but it keeps assigning me battles against characters 100s of times stronger than me and I'm never gonna be able to do this! I already heard leveling up your defense does nothing so if that's true, I've wasted probably ~a million mp and loads of time I could've spent on other stats. I don't know how I'm supposed to do this, honestly. I've been playing on and off for over two years and I feel like I don't know how to play this game/I'm playing it wrong. I'm frustrated and discouraged and don't know how everyone else is able to thrive in this game. I'm clearly doing something wrong. Aaand, I apparently can't even get the bold text to work on here, I can't do anything. Neat.