I am requesting a good faith move by any GM. Please spend literally 15 mins and run through harnaks, fairy's, seal of shiliean, sh2, sh3 and just observe what the players are facing.
This is a large portion of the game for players. Please do something: increase mobs, ban the obvious bots, increase respawn rate etc.
How long do you expect people to do kartia as a major source of XP? God was 5 years ago.. ..
All of the XP areas mentioned above are solid spots but literally overrun, you can't even attempt to XP in these spots.
If you won't manage the bots in your own game, which is insane to me, please Increase the drop rate of the pk weapons (forgot the name) so we can take care of these bots for you. Hell sell the pk swords in the ncshop I'd pay 1200 coins for pvp only swords to destroy this plague that you have allowed for too many years.
The quality of the game would be 100% improved if you did something, any of the 5-6 solutions i have provided.
Instead you do whacked things like mess up the 1-85 experience (nobody asked for this).
One last solution is open up that stingy wallet and hire an intern to run around and ban the bots. I know my 2 grand contribution from the abundance event would go a long way to hiring an intern. I know I am not alone in questioning why I spend this money when you won't police your own game.