All the xp penalties need to disappear. The need for them no longer exists, as if it ever did.
Mages do get screwed the most on the pet xp penalty. Not every Mage has a focus item so those without are in a bad situation, potentially. Can out damage the pet, but then you face agro. Or you can dismiss the pet, which means you have to resummon and keep a rather large supply of the proper materials the pet requires to be summoned. A focus item makes dismissing the pet the preferred option, but not all of us have the means to get one until we can actually quest for them ourselves.
You can group, which is always a great option. But soloing should also be an option. I see other classes soloing without the penalty pet classes have to overcome, and this is on top of the -10% penalty already incured because your a Mage. Mage is built around the pet, why penalize us for playing a class that was designed for the exact thing we're being punished for being able to do? Bards and Druids can do some ridiculous soloing and I don't see them coping with an extreme xp penalty on top of racial/class penalties. So why are pet classes being singled out?
The time and place for xp penalties is come and gone. Some classes may start off stronger than others, but in the end there are classes that dominate solo mid to late yet start off weaker while some of the stronger starting classes definately lack the dominant solo mid to late game.
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