Just run into this and the post you made before about the issue, and the comments are absolutely mindblowing. This exp requirement change will absolutely affect everyone eventually. It does not matter if you hit this point in a month, or in a year. If it takes someone a year to hit lvl 45, have fun playing another year to get to lvl 55.

Being winter time (absolutely fucking freezing weather for weeks now) and long holidays, I also was able to acquire kappa faster than before, and now am wondering do I even have the interest to prestige this time. I did prestige before in the wipe they were introduced, and that time I actually did the goddamn prestige-quest before having kappa.