I think the curve is to high. Ppl can simply use gear drop from NM lvl 30-35 gear and party up within a week or less to get to 50 and use lvl 49 recipe gear, that s mean if gear from lvl 25 to below 49 mean nothing but just there for DoH to lvl up, materia come from those gear are useless as well.

So imo lvl fast is good (I hate grind) but make it so it balanced with craft gear so we can have a decent mid lvl economy too.

I am a crafter but I already stop craft wep lvl 30+,cos ppl with LS simply dont buy em but just use NM gear , dungeon gear or companies gear and dont bother re-new their gear with the 40s but go strainght to 49. I had been in pt with some DoW use lvl 25 armor & wep in raptor pt, and no kick em is not option to solve this problem either