I went in as melee before the nerf and wasn't getting but 600~ xp at the most, I was on RUN, tanking for that 600 and died for it, could have done better on DRK DDing the roots probably. Camate, please let the dev know that the reduction was a horrible idea, people are already seeing Rieves as dead in the water, this patch could very well be the nail in the coffin.
The FFXI community has suggested several great ideas to improve Reives, widen the battlefield, auto-reraise, lengthen the time limit to get back in the battle, eliminating knockback effects of Reive mobs, the list goes on and on, yet the dev team ignores these suggestions and instead of improving an already horribly bugged event, they make it worse, intentionally. It's not hard to see why the community is angry, it seems the dev team is actively trying to anger the FFXI community, subscribers who pay their wages.
I understand ignoring the gripes of "I am disappoint, SE, Y U NO MOAR CONTENT?!" and of course the "Higher damage than Relics!? SE do you even lift!?" I can also understand not translating and forwarding such concerns to the devs, but please forward the Reive suggestions to the devs.