I don't know. I started levelling with an Iksar Warrior around the low 30's and even with his heavy XP penalties he has outleveled me and is now 10 ahead of me. I don't neckbeard, but play almost every day as a Bard, so that shows you how possible it still is to get groups and XP if you try. He's still going hard in the 50's.
Also, the other side of the inflated economy on p99 is that players are also much more likely to give stuff away - especially if you join a guild. I was gifted with all my armor and some half-decent weapons by guildies, and total strangers have just handed me stuff I could use as well (or paid for ports for CRs etc.) I've since passed the gifts on to other lower levels, and its likely they will pass them on themselves.
So while the big stuff is as hard as it ever was to accomplish (epics etc. for those of us with difficult epics), the little stuff is made significantly easier.
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