I fully agree on Sneak that should auto activate everywhere, and yeah I also liked the old graphic effect better.

And I hugely agree on the xp. I'm happy it got faster, but this is just ridicolous. Not only the gear, but also the job quests are impossible to keep up with now. And 60+ for the quests you absolutely need to craft/gather the item/s yourself (you can't even cheat it by buying it on mb) and for that indeed you need the right gear. I got to the point with GSM where I need 1030 craftmanship to craft the quest item, and with my current gear I only had 500. I spent all the money I had to buy the best gear for that level and still it's only 600 or something. I assume the quests want your gear always up to date with melds and all at that level, and scrips gear, but with this levelling speed it's impossible. The only thing I can think of is to leave all the job skills behind and just get to 80 and seriously gear up there, but that would be so annoying...