Disable EXP buff?

[Kiyal]

I am a new player that feels the speed of leveling is very fast. I over-level everything and I have since I started one-shot every single mob. I am level 43 and my main quest is in a 39 area. I feel "forced" to avoid side-quests altogether and I feel this is ruining my experience playing this game.

I want to take it slower and do the quests I find interesting without having to worry about massively over-leveling the story quest mobs.

I haven't even bothered with leveling up any skills either since my regular attack one-shots...

I also am wearing a worse weapon than I can.

Is there a way to reduce the exp? Is my leveling so fast now because of some event? Should I wait until the event is over? I think I have over 300% combat exp now that I can't seem to get rid of.

Thanks

[B✪✪tsy]

Even without the XP buff you gain levels very fast till level 50. The only way to make it harder on yourself is by using under powered gear in the early levels. Up to level 56 the PvE part of the game is more or less considered as a tutorial. I agree that it would have been nice if the early levels were more challenging, but alas. Just keep on playing, it will get harder and slower later on.

[mana🌎🌍🌏🇺🇸🇳🇱]

I agree and would add entertaining a life skill could be a way to balance that. Find one and become passionate about it. Meet people in the comparable life skill discord and use that as your escape.

[Traveler]

You're gonna learn real fast there is no such thing as "leveling too fast". If you're concerned about 1 shotting everything, being a lower level won't change that. Any level can wear any gear. Everything is 1 shot until higher levels.

Side quests can lead to Knowledge which leads to higher Energy cap. They're still good to do. No one does side quests for xp. In fact they used to give no combat xp at all.

[Kiyal]

Thank you very much for the replies!

It's sad to hear the leveling is so easy even without all these buffs. But if that's how the game is then I don't have to be too bothered I can't remove the buffs at least.

I'll just keep on playing and enjoy the scenery and take a look at all the other various features the game has :)

[Certi836]

After lvl 56 it will be much more challenging. I've reached Lvl 61 a few days ago, I'm a total casual player without any special skills of MMOs (played a lot of MMOs and my main one isn't BDO) and I was farming for the last few % of XPs and even with 530% XP buffs it was approx. 0.003% XP for killing one mob. The story quest is too hard for me yet, for example need to kill griffons but they aren't alone at a lot of places and together they can kill me fast even with +25 AP food with 220 base AP (210 recommended in that area), so it will be slower later and I hope you'll enjoy it. I miss more sidequests at this level and a new tab at the quests to see the available non-repeatable quests list to finish them for some XPs or other stuffs.

So basically don't worry it will be more challenging after you reach lvl 56. :)