[Rooj]

Same thing I posted in another thread, the amount of players who care about EXP penalties is minimal. Most people just want to play with people who pay attention and are good at the game. It's pretty baffling how many people aren't good at games, even old and simple games like Everquest.

Everyone loves enchanters, right? I've seen plenty of Enchanters not get invited to groups because they are consistently not refreshing buffs or being too slow on mezzes. I've seen people not be invited because they are an "asshat," or because they're a crappy healer or inefficient player. Very rarely have I ever seen someone not invited because their class has an EXP penalty. A large majority of players do not care.

Anyway, I'm not sure I'd waste my time fighting the staff with the EXP penalty. I'm about 100% sure it will not be removed until it is supposed to be removed in the timeline (which I'm pretty sure is during Velious). For 10 years now the staff has intentionally changed things to be more classic-like regardless of whether those changes were viewed negatively or positively. I'm sure even the staff believes EXP penalties were dumb (even Live staff said they regretted them), but they existed on Blue until the patch in Velious that removes them.

Honestly the best thing to do is to stop acting like the EXP penalty is something that really has any bearing on anyone's gameplay, or that a significant amount of players even care about it to begin with.