I was browsing through the new world reddit and came across a PTR data-mine showing that trade skill xp to level up to 200 will be doubled or perhaps even more than doubled, this is obviously nothing conclusive and subject to change.
but IF this is something you guys are considering doing i think i speak for alot of players when i say please dont.
the game has been out for too long to make a change like this, anybody who hasn’t gotten 200 in there favorite trade skill already will feel like they need to rush it, or regret not doing it earlier, and new players will have a much harder time achieving the same things we did.
i also think the amount of xp for leveling trade skills is currently reasonable, if i look at the steam statistics for the % of players who have achieved 200 engineering for example, it was at 0.1%.
your endgame shouldn’t be grinding trade for over 1000 hours to max them all, the endgame should be the PvP and upcoming PvE content i know you guys are working hard on.
Thank you for reading.
Edit: gathering more information on this topic, you seem to also be increasing XP gained for crafting items (specifically higher tier ones), but overall it still seems to be a longer grind to reach 200 then it is right now, and will also require harder materials. if you are changing it in this way please make the grind the same amount of overall time spent as it was before, for all the same reasons i listed above.