+50% experience bonus.

[gankstar1868]

I played on Rallos zek from 2000ish to 2006-7 so i am no stranger to how the grind was for EXP.

I came back now 6-7 years later with a buddy and played on p99. Grind was tough but there was no PvP and being big into that we quit. With the launch of kunark we decided to come back and play.

Already we are being turned off with just the thought of the amount of time we both have to dedicate to getting 45+. With brand new characters and an insane 35% penalty (sk/shaman which looks like will be forcing me to reroll to a warrior) the grind is absurd for this day and age. No one in their right mind should expect to retain and significant number of players unless you make getting to the populated areas much faster.

1-40 200% exp
40-50 100% exp
50-60 normal exp

something along those lines would help players not only get to 10 a lot quicker so we can ask questions, but let us go back and get gear/farm easier with higher level chars. We really want to invest time into this box but with such little available due to rl stuff, we find ourselves being drawn to other games because of the grind.

I am all for hard core, losing items, death exp, corpse run etc etc. But i cant afford to give up so much time only to see 1, maybe 2 people in a zone if i am lucky and chances are they will be twinked and gank meh.

Just my 2 cents from a possibly prospective player.