Actually the whole point is that it's not even fun. It's become a boring, repetitive, time-costly chore to rank up. Prior to the patch I was getting a decent amount of xp from leve's. Mind you it's still essentially grinding, and it's fairly slow, but it was challenging and quick enough not to be painful. That's not the case anymore; doesn't matter what the old development team did, the fact of the matter is it's just ineffective as it stands now. Not even bringing into the discussion the party search function, which makes everything even more unbearable.