Sorry, I hate to be the devil's advocate right now...but here is the main reason why it's bad. It's just like powerleveling.
When you can just level solo in Hidden Passage all day long, there is just spam involved.
I mean, perhaps it'd be better if it offered 1/10 XP, or maybe 1/2, something like that. That's my solution, probably a bad one though.
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