I just got to Icecrown on my rogue alt and grabbed the quests from the Horde airship. Most of those quests require me to head south of the airship and kill a bunch of mobs.
I kill some mobs to farm parts off them. I kill some mobs to create an abomination pet which self destructs into quest mobs. I have to run around and pick up quest items off the ground, which means I need to clear mobs in order to get said items.
Before I had even done the first round of quests, the xp got nerfed to under 10% of what it had originally been, which I expected (though I did not expect it so soon).
Now, what I had read on the forums indicated the XP nerf for mobs would only pertain to those specific mobs, i.e. if I had been slaughtering abominations and then went to slaughter skeletons, I would no longer be nerfed.
This is not the case at all. My XP nerf for mob kills has extended zone-wide, and is now persisting even AFTER running an instance.
This is a horrible, terrible, lazy system you have implemented. You wanted to combat botting, and instead you're making normal players face a penalty for... nothing. We have done nothing wrong.
Please remove this "feature" and never bring it or anything like it back again.
I kill some mobs to farm parts off them. I kill some mobs to create an abomination pet which self destructs into quest mobs. I have to run around and pick up quest items off the ground, which means I need to clear mobs in order to get said items.
Before I had even done the first round of quests, the xp got nerfed to under 10% of what it had originally been, which I expected (though I did not expect it so soon).
Now, what I had read on the forums indicated the XP nerf for mobs would only pertain to those specific mobs, i.e. if I had been slaughtering abominations and then went to slaughter skeletons, I would no longer be nerfed.
This is not the case at all. My XP nerf for mob kills has extended zone-wide, and is now persisting even AFTER running an instance.
This is a horrible, terrible, lazy system you have implemented. You wanted to combat botting, and instead you're making normal players face a penalty for... nothing. We have done nothing wrong.
Please remove this "feature" and never bring it or anything like it back again.