I agree with Griff here that the max 8's are fairly simple. Likely by design. I know some folks like things hard and some enjoy easy content. So quest balance is tricky business. I wish some of the quests had more optional part 2 (yes a lot of work so I understand why they don't) which gave more xp for a high risk.
I don't think it's hard at all to make 8 especially with the 12 hours between quest resets and the lower death penalty. Some folk will always be better at questing or have more time too. It's the nature of the game.
The ease to make 8 imo lets you focus on whatever else you want to do in the game world.
The 9-10 content is really cool and nothing is stopping a L7-L8 PC from doing that too? I think things are to easy imo but for the server health and player retention is probably at a really good spot.
I don't think it's hard at all to make 8 especially with the 12 hours between quest resets and the lower death penalty. Some folk will always be better at questing or have more time too. It's the nature of the game.
The ease to make 8 imo lets you focus on whatever else you want to do in the game world.
The 9-10 content is really cool and nothing is stopping a L7-L8 PC from doing that too? I think things are to easy imo but for the server health and player retention is probably at a really good spot.