Moreover, Guru 100 is projected to require 1,165,424,299,500 XP, making fears that some XP would be "lost" in the merge baseless :) No one can have this amount od XP in any lifeskill across all their characters. BTW if you have 2x Guru 50, you will land almost exactly on Guru 56. Having 10x Guru 50 would put you a bit below Guru 69. And having 30x Guru 50 would land you in mental hospital + approx Guru 78.

And that's an insane amount of afk time on fishing, cooking, alchemy, and processing. Someone's gotta have their computer running 24/7 since this game started for something like that 30x Guru 50

Instead of being character-specific, each discipline's Life Level is now unified at the House level.
This update has a number of effects, including ensuring that all characters enjoy the same Life Level benefits, and making the process of receiving and completing quests easier. (Skills like Sprint, Forest Run, and Speed Cruise are also now shared across clans.)

This integration is not "aligned to the highest level," but rather "experience from each of your character's life areas is added together.
As a result of the experience earned in each life being pooled together at the House level, your adventurer's current level in each life will be slightly higher.

However, we know that some Adventurers have already reached Dynasty 50, and under the current structure, their experience would add up to their maximum level and there would be no way for them to climb any higher. To preserve the progress they've made, we've changed the way they'll be able to gain experience by expanding their level instead of deleting it. While the expanded level won't have any additional stat effects, we're working on making it possible for them to earn Honor, and we're rolling out the Life Level Consolidation update first so that Adventurers can see the benefits quickly, and then introducing Honor when it's ready.

We hope today's update will make life easier for both longtime adventurers and newcomers alike.

Due to the process of adding up all the Life experience earned for each character, adventurers who have already reached Dao 50 should have had their excess experience removed,
We've expanded the maximum Life level so that you can continue to gain experience after the total is added up. The effects of the Life level will be the same as they were at Dao 50.

The max Life level for each discipline will be expanded from Doin 50 to Doin 100.
The effect of the mastery bonus per life level will continue to be the same as before, but only up to level 50.
The effects of each Life discipline based on your Life level (for example, in Gathering, the chance to no longer cost Energy when gathering) will also remain the same, but only up to Life 50.
You can see the effects of each of these areas of life in the descriptions of each area of life in My Info (P) - Life Info.

Due to the consolidation of families in living levels, the Shai class' Foraging/Alchemy base level (Specialty 1) no longer applies.

- The Gathering/Annuity experience bonus for the Shai class remains the same as before.

Postenkriege:

* For example, if you achieve the Mastery rating in 10 areas of life to reduce repair/expansion time by a total of 40 seconds, it works like this
- The base expansion time for an annex building is 90 seconds, and with the 40-second reduction, it takes 50 seconds to expand.
- The base repair time for Command Centres/Field Headquarters is 120 seconds, with a 40-second reduction, it takes 80 seconds to repair.
- Solid/Hard Rectangular Strongholds have a base repair time of 60 seconds, but only up to 50% of the repair/expansion time is reduced, so they take 30 seconds to repair instead of 40 seconds.
- Other Strongholds have a base repair time of 40 seconds, but only reduce repair/build time by a maximum of 50%, so they take 20 seconds to repair instead of 40 seconds.

There are many websites with information about BDO: bdocodex, grumpygreen, blackdesertfoundry, and the table is from incendar.

Going from above 10.7k (my latest pic I took was with 10k) to only 2.8k.

So much to preserve our progress...

You exactly at what you earned. It added everything up. The old system was one guy with 30 guru 1 cooks got 4500 life fame which was less total exp then 1 guru 50 cook who only got 260 life fame. Was a joke system rewarding less work to now you are what you earned. Now I think they still screwed ppl who kept cooking/processing on one char even after maxing guru 50 and all that exp was lost. now those dudes can complain.

I was one of them that cook past level 51 and yes got nothing for it

As far as I understand, there's no benefit going above guru 50, or did I misread? 

None but this BDO and the braggers will keep going and care about ldrboards. The system is fairer now and the benefits of all chars having auto sprint breezey sail and many others outweigh but still some ppl lost all that exp past guru 51 and are probably upset

Remember folks, you can now fish off city and train your horses on lvl 49 chars :) Imune to PKs