New Areas are Empty

[SovereignAegis]

They are all botting in North Thanalan or spamming dungeons. It has to be really sad for the devs that worked on making the new awesome areas to see that the people in charge of balancing the exp gained after 50 messed it up and now people are just sitting in the same zone all day just like 2 years ago.

The mobs in the new areas have like 5x the HP I'd expect... they are just... brutal to kill. And then poof 500 exp and you kind of look at the screen in doubt and then go "nope".

Literally was my reaction on pre-release when I tried it. Nope nope nope nope nope. 4 minutes to kill a single mob for 500 exp... no.

Was one of those weird furry eyeball things too in western coerthas.

[Kotemon]

The mobs in the new areas have like 5x the HP I'd expect... they are just... brutal to kill.

I'm almost inclined to believe they are meant to be killed in groups for farming craft items. However I have no idea what the exp rate is when in a 4 man party.