>>716165584It certainly wasn't Velious, I was level 30 on my paladin in Iceclad Ocean and I hated that hell level and penalty every day. The only thing that kept me going was the cougar claw earring I could go to the commonlands and sell for 250 plat and afford stuff. If it was the weekend I'd go to the first level of tower of frozen shadow and hunt the spectres but you really couldn't run away because if you clicked that mirror to escape you'd likely be attacked by a snow dervish and while I could rez myself there was still an exp penalty and lost exp.
Meanwhile I watched druids kite 4 of those cougars at a time while I'm sitting here with my two handed practice sword because it proc'd thorns.
They probably removed it later than that. I retired my main during the start of the SoD expansion and I don't remember hearing about the hybrid exp penalty being removed.
HOWEVER I did feel disgust when they added faction to the Paineel skeleton guards because that was the only way I made money; killing skeleton guards and selling the sword and shield to the Erudite next to the guard corpse.