Why are you incentivizing krono farmer PL?

All this does is make it harder for ppl who are trying to level and box or alt.

People / boxers / whoever that are selling PL will just use a lower level wizard to tag the mobs.

While actual players trying to level a box or alt will get MASSIVELY reduced exp when grouped with their already leveled char.

The effect, is making it more difficult on your own, but about the same if you want to buy PL from some krono farmer.

In absence of knowing the intention, you have to gauge intent off of consequence. And the consequence, is it is now more appealing to purchase PL from krono farmers than it was yesterday. So that was your intent, and I want you to justify why you think that is good for 95% of the player base.

I feel a little dumb, but what did I miss?

your point wasn't missed, it was simply a stupid point, as nothing has changed the fact that paying someone is an option. Usually a very good option if you can afford it.

I can't even figure out what they are mad about

They nerfed the amount of exp lower levels get in groups with higher lvl toons.

Example:
Lvl 40 duo'ing with a lvl 60, the lvl 40 now gets about 1/2 or 1/3 the exp they did yesterday.

Where does it say exp was nerfed? is this confirmed

While I do not participate in PL, some people spend 40 to 80 hours a week at a RL job, and have family obligations after, and still want to attempt to keep up with peers and guildies in their EQ hobby. That is why this exists.

Lazy people will be lazy, doesn't matter if its real life or a game.

Please cite the actual patch notes that say exp was nerfed.

I don't see anything in the patch notes that state experience is nerfed for lower level members of the group... @Dev's can you confirm?

Its not in the patch notes, but we have had several people confirm it this morning and it has been rumored for about 2 weeks.

Apparently it stems from people AE'ing from 40-60 on Selos in about 2 or 3 hrs.

Edit: Not worth the time. Your obviously kinda dumb and dont understand the point of this thread.

Normally you would put your complaint , (People now seem to be receiving less XP when grouping with higher level toons than before) in the first sentence of your argument. Then follow it up with some examples and maybe some evidence.

Yeah, realized that about 10 minutes ago but am no longer able to edit the OP.

Yes, now no one will level a character. They will all just pay someone with krono to level their character for them. Quite the reach there buddy.

Literally nothing has changed. You either level character yourself or you pay someone to do it for you. This has and always will be the case.

Well that's not true. I enjoy leveling alts with my mains once they get to level 33 so they can group but now that seems to be the bad route...?

Seems to me this would make PLing 40-60 2x-3x more expensive while not affecting regular xp. Kinda the opposite of what you're getting at.

Hoping devs will respond to this, making me not want to level my alt accounts if this is true... I know it's a terrible topic title but still feel like if there was, in fact, a ninja exp nerf it should be addressed

For starters, nobody would be offering PL services if there wasn't any demand for it.

That demand is something that both players and developers really should be paying attention to. High demand means that the player community isn't able to enjoy the casual game, and is looking to skip over this play in favor of end-game content.

MMOs have had problems with being too "grindy" pretty much ever since they started. If a player is unable to have fun in the game due to lack of available groups, low return on effort, lack of challenge, or other reasons, they will either quit or find a way to minimize (skip, if possible) to content that is more fun.

Ideally, the game content gets tuned to make it more fun (both challenging and rewarding) to level up. Achievements and rewards are a possibility, as is increased XP, drops, etc. We should be brainstorming for other ways to make the middle levels more fun as well.

Calling someone else lazy because they'd rather bypass playing a video game for dozens and dozens of hours to mindlessly grind out exp is such sweet irony