"The mud is already on an even playing field, so arguments in that vein seem like falsely-rationalized or veiled desire to rip off people who have put the time in to get big."

Except it isn't even. The huge imbalances in XP ghain is the big reason for a Pwipe to me. *if* those were fixed (there are some easy solutions), I can't see there not being a pwipe. The unfairness of, say, Arii or Pyrax keeping their levels, which no-one could then theoretically catch is quite obvious.

I mean, unnless the XP solution included doubling or trippling the XP of certain guilds. But I see that as a silly solution. There is too much XP for most guilds already...