Holy crap I knew Renewal was a revamp but I never realized how much they nerfed the XP table and stuff.
No wonder at the "pitiful" low rate of 5x I'm already 40something.
Obviously the mobs have had their XPs adjusted, but even at 1x it's like playing at 10x now (and noone plays at 1x thanks to battle manuals and VIP bonuses and all sorts of other items now available).
So yeah, I'm not so worried about running at 5x7.5x anymore.
I kind of disagree with this.
Basically, you're right about the EXP up to level 99 being heavily, heavily nerfed but with the rates as they are right now I do not think that we will be able to do anything that is fun and party oriented for a very long time because 99 is no longer the level at which you can attempt endgame.
I mean, after you hit level 99/70 the EXP required to level up is dramatically increased.
For example, after you hit level 99/70 and change into your third class, if you were to receive all the base EXP it took you to reach 99trans again, you would gain a grand total of... 8 level ups. That's what 198 level ups equate to.
To compound to this at this level you no longer have access to repeatable quests which means that you need to earn all this EXP purely through grinding.
Which will take a hell of a long time to do.
This is in part due to the nerfed EXP values that you mentioned in your post.
I mean, for example, the Kasa: It used to give you 49000 bEXP per kill. It now gives 5599 bEXP provided you're in the correct level range.
Reaching level 150 requires more bEXP than it does to reach level 99 pre-renewal yet the monsters now only give fractions of the EXP that they used to and have even been buffed to make things more troublesome.
Which brings me to the other part. Our server's population is extremely limited, which makes finding parties within your level range a bit more annoying. Solo'ing monsters in your level range is quite troublesome and I don't think that you can even attempt monsters in the optimal EXP range solo.
I don't know. I just see things becoming un-fun fast since every MVP has been scaled up quite a bit so you need the levels to attempt them and the levels are so very annoying to get through grinding.
tl;dr: I think the EXP rates are too low for our limited server population.
Of course, this is simply my opinion and since it's your server you're free to have it run however you want. I'll just be grinding hats in the corner at whatever rates I'm given.