Post Big Bang % per hour rates

I was training at skelegons today (lv 156 buccaneer) and noticed that I was only getting 5% per hour. Is anyone else feeling a bit underwhelmed by the new experience curve?

2% an hour at 18x

^And this is so much better than Pre-BB?

I got roughly 400% per hour at truckers before mobs of people came in on day one.

2000% per hour on a new character?

Okay, I'm getting about 50% per hour at level 6X, but I'm just doing the low level quests, so I would say it's decent. Also Nett's Pyramid is 20% / 15min.

About 150% per hour (Level 87-90 Ranger) at Mysterious Path 3.

First, and going on a tangent, nice username TC.

Secondly, that happens to be the norm now. A guildie and some of his friends, all high levels (180+) decided to pretty much quit since the curve didn't seem to be all that on those levels and now that they don't have the perks of bonus exp multipliers, they seem robbed of the chance of making it to 200.

The problem seems to be that high mobs nowaday don't yield any decent exp; things might change once Lionheart Castle hits our shores, but nothing is certain at this point, so they decided to leave.

Some monsters for me don't give that good of a chunk of EXP either even at 145. Even some of the best monsters I can fight gave me only about 0.03% which isn't any better than Pre-BB when I was training on 4x at Time Temple. Since usually I lose about 0.003% per level up, I'm guessing by about 175 I'll be needing about 17,000 EXP per kill just to get even 0.01%.

So much for balance and high level content...

I think that once Lionheart and all of those areas come out, people will be able to play just fine.

As for the rest of us, BB is the best thing ever. I went 34 - 58 today at truckers and I'm investing OMS right now. Suffice it to say, 1 - 100 in a week is possible (if you have no life).

Some monsters for me don't give that good of a chunk of EXP either even at 145. Even some of the best monsters I can fight gave me only about 0.03% which isn't any better than Pre-BB when I was training on 4x at Time Temple. Since usually I lose about 0.003% per level up, I'm guessing by about 175 I'll be needing about 17,000 EXP per kill just to get even 0.01%.

So much for balance and high level content...

Bolded the part that stand out to me the most. You are getting the same in 1x that you got in 4x in the past; maybe because I'm not of high level, but I see that as a straight improvement.

Yes, but that number goes down and will keep going down. If 175 is going to be bad, think about how 180, 190, and all the way to 200 will be. I don't feel like killing 15+ monsters for 0.01% is worth the hassle.

It probably wasn't going to be worth it in pre-BB territory either.

But yes, I get your point: for changing the curve, in the end of the road it doesn't really change that much. At least not now. This is the same reason those guys and my guildie left and I totally see were you guys are coming from.

Mhmm... now that we don't have 2x/4x at all unless they actually hold a 2x event, or you can get 5 close family members including a Priest HS mule to do Family Bonding 1.5x + Holy Symbol's boost and the party EXP bonus, which is highly unlikely even now, anyone 170+ is going to really start feeling the crunch even if they get to Oblivion 4 where the best EXP currently is claimed to be.

Data points have shown that all leveling past level 157 will now take longer per level than it did pre-big bang. On an average of about 20% longer (time wise) per level. The xp may have been decreased, but the xp you get is also decreased.

Keeping 2x exp would have made all the difference for post-BB grind speed by the looks of it.

I really believe NexonAM is gonna see the drop in activitiy from dissapointed 150+ players and re-release 2x. or at last 1.5x.

got 7.5% on 148 buccaneer on a 1.2x buff and 1 30%extra exp from roll of dice at memory lane 5.

And someone dared to say that buying a 2x EXP Card to increase your EXP gains was "unfair" and "unbalanced"... typical noobs... always whining and crying over what mommy and daddy won't let them buy... like Nx.

Level 139 Bishop, 15% / hr at Minor Zombies ( w/ hs, w/o rep buff)

Some monsters for me don't give that good of a chunk of EXP either even at 145. Even some of the best monsters I can fight gave me only about 0.03% which isn't any better than Pre-BB when I was training on 4x at Time Temple. Since usually I lose about 0.003% per level up, I'm guessing by about 175 I'll be needing about 17,000 EXP per kill just to get even 0.01%.

So much for balance and high level content...

You want to hate Big Bang sooo much, don't you?

Now lets see, after BB you are getting the same exp as pre-BB on 4x. Exp cards give 1.5x now, thats 6x already. Get hsed and that jumps to 9x, and the rep 1,2x brings the total up to 10,8x. GASP, YOU HAVE BROKEN THE 10x BARRIER!!! Couldn't do that pre-BB, eh?

The exp post BB at high levels is horrible. I wanted to get to 160 so I could HT, but I guess that's going to wait for LHC.

I think that once Lionheart and all of those areas come out, people will be able to play just fine.

As for the rest of us, BB is the best thing ever. I went 34 - 58 today at truckers and I'm investing OMS right now. Suffice it to say, 1 - 100 in a week is possible (if you have no life).

Note that Truckers, and the rest of the exceptionally high-exp World Tour areas (gallos, anyeveryone? jesters?), aren't a proper part of BB.
BB was supposed to end ks-wars by making no one map stand out as the single best place to train. If they had fixed truckers, you'd have leveled 4 times slower.
If they don't fix them, the whole map and mob restructuring was pointless. Just cut away 99% of the game's bloat and leave the 5 maps people actually train on.

As for me, I'll tell you how fast I can train just as soon as I finish re-doing the 10 ToT 999 quests... So far it doesn't look good at all. Looks like I'll be getting the exact same 1.5%/hr on 1x as I did pre-BB. But while pre-BB I could get more exp/hr by using 2x cards and/or 2x rep buff, or by hunting bigfoot in the wee hours (European timezone ftw), now these options no longer exist. 1.5%/hr is the best I can get. Serves me right for thinking I could get to the end of a game intended to be an infinite grind.

No viable training options for me until we get Lionheart. If then.