I forsee this update is going to have the potential to be a horrible back-fire. Can you imagine how crowded Valkrum Dunes will be when this comes out? There will be more players than monsters. And until the excitement of it dies down, most regular exp camps are going to suddenly be overcrowded (more so than ever). Not to mention the negative effects its going to have on the economy. Yah it's going to be nice to do enms/bcnms, etc now since you dont have to get seperate gears for them, but now everyone else has that same innitial advantage and the values of those gears along with crafted gear will go down (I imagine fairly drasticly).
Maybe I'm over reacting, as it's obvious that merit areas will always be the best place for lvl 75s to merit. I don't know how much it's going to help the casual player, though. If anything, I think they will be picked over 9 x out of 10 for someone 'more experienced'. I'm also pretty pesimisitic<sp? on how useful this will be in general. Hopefully though the things I am sceptical of will work out in the wash and this will be as awesome as it leads us to believe-- but again, this is SE..... I'm not getting my hopes up.