Originally Posted by Drip

I'm not entirely sure (well, about 95% sure), but it seems like the Personal Earrings obtained from the Character Quests no longer count as Earrings.
I.E.: using earring materials to upgrade them does NOT seem to give the same-type material bonus. Using 10 earring materials or 10 bracelet materials of the same grade yields the same amount of experience.
Maybe someone can doublecheck, but seriously, do double check, don't go by what you'd expect or what you "heard"!

Also note that when you use the filter, and set it to "Earrings", that the personal earrings no longer show up! (this is actually what made me suspicious, and caused me to investigate)

You're right. It has to be a bug. Earring materials are only worth 795xp now. Personal earrings get the bonus experience from earring mats on DMM to this day, even though they have their own separate mat and filter.

Originally Posted by Taon

Guess we'll soon find out; might make for the fastest store-clearing event yet if the results were predetermined before and carried over:

flowerknight.wikia.com/wiki/The_Beaches_of_Summer_Vacation (scroll down for the race results)

That results section is empty. Only by having a DMM account will you ever know that Justicia won the first race.