North American Dragon Nest Service Shutdown

to put it in simple terms:
level 1-90 seem to be abso-pineappleing-lutely irrelevant, the real game starts at 90, maybe 80 since that's red dragon gear. really, the game is n-brains until then, it's actually kinda disgusting, most of the dragons became story bosses and if you die to them you had to actively try to die
you level stupidly fast, been doing only the main storyline since supposedly random quest rewards get changed to a very rare and needed item if you get to max level (garnet lustres, used for enhancing everything
enhancement isn't the cash grab it once was, now items have huge base stats, and low enhancement increases, except for RDN i think.

My highest level was a newly advanced Gladiator and I can remember leveling him up to that point was kinda tedious, so we talking a massive exp cut or is it like DFO style leveling? Just do it and forget it? wish we could rest skills for free however.