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Agreed... soloing though and afk a bit and warrior, options are a bit limited in low 40's

Now that I'm 43, things have definitely changed against the same green con mob. So while when it first turned green, I saw no difference. Definitely a difference now on the 2nd level it's green.

Early observation tells me it's about 25% of what I was getting previous level. Con color is not the difference maker here. More research to be done, but I'm thinking anything below 70% of level mob only gives 25% of exp, otherwise 100%. So 43 x .7 is 30.1. So I suspect a level 31 green con mob will give a full 100% of exp.

A tick is 1/5th of a blue bub on your xp bar. There are 5 blue bubs per yellow bub, there are 5 yellows in a level. DuxaUI / more modern UI's show you this, I don't think they're visible on the default client. It lets you actually see whether you're getting partial % xp per kill.

Got it, I don't have the UI with blue bar, just shows EXP. But nevertheless, it took 30 green con kills (level 30 guards in west karana) at level 42 to get 47% exp and ding 43.

Interesting, I'm leveling a new character right now and in Crushbone, killing freshly green orc centurions was 3 per 1% whereas I'm getting 1-3% per blue kill.

Makes sense and coincides with what I was thinking. Let's say you are level 9, so the level 4 and 5 orcs are green, but still give exp. However if you divide 5 by .7, you get only 7.14 which means experience penalty of 75%. Whereas I was fighting a level 30 at 42. 30 / .7 is 42.85, so no penalty. Once I hit 43 though, I was above that 42.85 and suddenly started getting a severe exp penalty on killing the same mob even though both levels they conned green.

I leveled 55-60 in HS exclusively on my shaman about 4ish years ago..during the time when the zem there was great. I found that killing a blue gave about 6-7x more experience than killing a green in the zone at level 59.

Maybe that's all it is? Certain levels greens aren't bad XP because of rounding issues? Because, like I'm not trying to be facetious, every single level I have ever vaguely tracked my XP on, any green mob that gave XP gave, for all intents and purposes, zero experience. Even around those levels quadding Spirocs, getting a full quad of 1 level into green con spirocs gave zero movement on the XP bar, killing 4 of them simultaneously provided less than 1/125th of the xp to level.