Basically, why they cry about it being x3:
Dudes that are 24/7 (be it legit, bots or whatever) want meat shields. x3 rates are a tad hard for most of the community, so even middle-wars will take a while to exp. And since that "while" might take like a month or so, these bozos will be having "the time of their lives" vs each other (I estimate around 10+/- parties will be 81-85 by the end of the month). They don't like that, they need a lot of useless 80 lvls running around and dying to AOE (or the self importance won't come rushing in) that's why they want higher rates (it's all here in the topic, btw, in rus though). I personally like these rates, you at least lose something when you die 20 times in a row. Let's hope that the vitality donations won't be too op.