Apparently the forum ate the reply I posted yesterday.
My humans are in community 99% of the time.
Humans do not display when they get dirty but elves do immediately. I will remind you that you pointed out you have no experience playing an elf. I two human characters because they level so much faster.
It is incredibly easy to go out for 60-90 minutes as a human and then take a sell break and still be in community.
Are you advocating the use of level 50 gear? can I do the same and say make sure to use your community earrings? Cleanliness items do not significantly adjust the rate at which you get dirty - in my experience.
Having 15 minutes of +10% xp and then the remaining 3 hours plus at -10% xp is a really bad trade. I would love to see the display keep you clean longer and have a more balanced xp % increase.
Fact:
Elves have inferior jewelry to humans
Elves lose their xp bonus much faster than humans (without taking any action as the player for either)
Observation:
I can take my humans out for 60-90 minutes and stay in community.
I can lose my cleanliness bonus in 15 minutes as an elf.
There seems to be a big disconnect here in terms of equality
*Edit Update: With 13% xp buffs i lost my clean bonus in under 6 minutes in kur tower. So then I went and washed off and watched the timer (thank you skin buffs). I was dirty before 2 minutes passed - this includes travel time to mobs. I washed off again and noted the time. I was able to get dirty again in under 2 minutes (with even fewer mobs closer to the water wash off point).
Conclusion:
Elves are mechanically inferior to humans and the mechanism could be adjusted slightly.
Who am I attacking? Are you trolling again?