Menphina's Earrings (pre-order bonus) are essentially worthless.

[DBriggs304]

...we are really reaching for complaints at this point.

[Kes13a]

...we are really reaching for complaints at this point.

well, with the game "falling apart at the seams" get your digs in while complaints are at a high volume... 15 minutes of fame and all that

personally, never paid that much attention to the earrings after 70. at ilevel 430, wasnt worth even equiping for 80.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

...we are really reaching for complaints at this point.

It's a valid concern. The earrings really only have value on the overworld, during things like FATEs, where individual mob XP is very low. That's relevant, because the earrings were a major drive for preorders, but I don't see myself doing this again for the next expansion -- with the XP bonus being completely insubstantial now... and preorders are important for a company (or really anyone selling anything), because they make planning a lot easier.

The decision to go about it this was was not great, from a business standpoint, and it feels bad if you permanently feel as if you miss out on a large chunk of XP because all the progress paths are decoupled from mob kill XP.