Phoenix does seem pretty dead, There was like 300 people on when I type /sea all
They really need to do something doesn't make me want to pay for a sub again. Most of those 300 people were afk in jeuno as well.
I decided to get some merit points. But the upped the exp rate so much that seems like you get a merit point each time you kill one monster. It takes me longer to walk to a camp then it does to cap merit points before I have to warp back to dump merits. Why doesn't SE let you set these outside the mog house its 2018. They really going to make you run back to dump merits every 5 min.
I remember a high level zone was in this portal in qufim for Rhapsodies takes you do the alternative Zitah. Run out to qufim get to the portal run to your camp with the monkeys. Edited out all the running there.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/336117802
Here is a video of one of my exp runs.
There a easier way to get to camps for merits now?