i have a display name tho

I've accounted for that already.

If you're impatient to read but still interested, just read what's in the spoiler box. For comparison, CB provided about 3-4m EXP per hour, depending on your EXP multipliers and class. It could be done at any time for as long as you want, at the speed that you want. Dailies are a must-do if you want EXP daily regardless if you feel like doing it or not, something that highly contributes to burnout. In CB, we could previously buy 1m exp charms for a high price in peaches. That was taken away recently, lowering the EXP gain a little. However, we could still grind monsters for good EXP and rewards. Now that the max level is 60 and there are no mobs that are close to lv60, there aren't any monsters to gain exp from like before. CB mobs now give 30-50 exp each when before they could give 3-5k, a 100x decrease or 30-40k EXP/hr. Moon Refuge's strongest monsters also give roughly 30-50 exp each as well. You can get 300-500k EXP in charms per hour, which is about 10x slower than previous CB even without 1m exp charms/10k peaches. Moon Refuge, for some reason, has the same level monsters with only different HP values? I think it would be better if each zone's mob level increases as well as HP value with difficulty (for example: there are 5 zones, which should start at level 56 and increase in difficulty by 1-2 levels each as well as HP (ending at 61-63 perhaps in the lunar field). Another idea is to change one zone to have stronger mini-bosses spawning at the rate of normal monsters (ie. a mini-boss with the relative strength of the CB mini-bosses compared to the normal CB mobs, but in MR). that would give viable EXP and perhaps materials/EXP comparable to CB previously. I believe it would be a good place to put HM Gem powder and HM gem fragments, as we currently have no source for that. Another option would be evolved stones/pet pods/sacred oils at a lower rate than field bosses/hm dungeons which drop evolved stones, pet pods, sacred oils, etc. I also agree with the other post which suggests that Earthseers' Special EXP charms should be account bound. There really is no reason that they are not, considering the high price of crafting (approximately 570-600g/7m/week depending on market price, not counting premium and special papers., That's about 80g per charm which also has a 1 craft per week limit. Previous arguments used against this and some counter-arguments: 1. BnS is not a grinding for EXP game. The core of essentially every MMO is things to defeat, your character and it's progression, and community/possessions/economy. The monsters and tasks to do give things such as EXP or items which help progress your character and provide an economy. Nearly all of them have some sort of repeatable task (ie. killing monsters) which provide a low-level reward (EXP or a low chance at drops). BnS has or had exactly this with SSP, CB, PVP, dungeon dynamic boxes, etc. 2. BnS EXP mainly comes from daily quests. Quests can only be completed once a day, and cannot be stacked to complete multiple times on another day. When this is the only source of progression, a user who doesn't feel like doing it may feel that they're 'behind' if they don't do it daily, which is a major contributor to burning out and quitting the game in a short period of time. By having both dailies and a source that we can do at any time (pre-awakening CB), it gives more options for the user and allows them to feel more freedom in their choices of what they can do in-game. 3. BnS should not be taken seriously/Games are meant to be for fun. Personally, I play for fun, and levels are part of the fun. It's relatively relaxing to grind and it is rewarding to see progress in anything -- including games. Nearly every human has some sort of competitive nature in them, even in games, where competition is often linked to fun. Competition is the concept of half of the game - PVP and season leaderboards. Furthermore, the casual player who simply does whatever they want without a care for gear or raids benefit from these changes as well. The entire point of BnS and MMOs in general is also to complete content, which generally requires gear. 4. MMOs are meant to be taken slowly. BnS is relatively slow to progress in and that is okay. The point is that we can't level up outside of daily quests, and high-level, free-to-play players are frustrated that levels are now impossible to get (gold and equipment are also getting more and more difficult, but that's for another post). Some players are proud that they can level up that way; everyone has their own reason to play an MMO, which is mostly the point of an MMO. It's not really about 'being able to level up faster', it's that a portion of the playerbase lost a large part of the reason to play the game. 5. We need to support the company financially. (really?) One of NCSoft's 'mottos' or policies is that the game will not have things purchasable for real money that cannot be acquired in game. While this remains true, it's becoming more and more 'technically the truth' as many things are nigh impossible to get. Personally, I'm okay with the gem changes to solar energies, because it's not particularly unreasonable to complete dailies on multiple characters and eventually fuse good gems (you can actually get the primary dyad gems within a reasonable amount of months if you play efficiently, a fair timescale for end-game items). However, EXP cannot be gained on multiple characters and would be pointless to do so, because the rate of EXP gain is so low. The concept of 'transferring' EXP from quests would be much more convoluted and eccentric compared to just allowing monsters to be grinded for EXP, which is an intuitive mechanic presented similarly in nearly every MMO, including BnS until last month. TL;DR I think there should be a relatively casual, free-feeling source of EXP without requiring a large sum of money, things that are already 'rare' or are used to acquire other rare items as is (evolved stones, bloodstones, zen beans, etc), like how celestial basin used to be pre-awakening. Only 15 hours a week give you experience points and most players play much more than that if they have strong gear, so most of the time you aren't actually gaining any exp.