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Did they really ice the 1-50 bonus? I can't speak for those levels any more, but I had two mostly identical large pulls before and after this supposed nerf and it appears that the 25% bonus is still in effect. Does anyone actually know if there's been any real word from rogean or nilborg on this changing?

I personally don't think the nasty grind is that ridiculous, but having with it a 3% unrezzable exp hit per pvp death is completely ludicrous. I've heard you say before something to the effect of "we don't want there to be no consequences for taking a pvp death," but there are plenty of real consequences when you take a pvp death. Not only is there the reputation and the probable screenshot, there's the CR which very often is a CR under extreme duress. There is the coin, but really we're talking about the intangible factors here.

Sometimes I can't help it and gotta go harass em for a minute, but so often I am just avoiding pvp with Nihilum where I would otherwise go have some fun. I think about the consequences of even a single pvp death, the likely 60-90 minutes of leveling it will cost me, and I say to myself "fuck it." And that's the life of the underdog here, I'm not complaining really, it's just kind of bunk that some arbitrary and unnecessary feature of the implementation deters me from doing what I'm really here to do. What's the fucking point? Taking a death is punishing enough, especially when you're hated for speaking the truth.