EXP penalty question
 

If 3 rangers were grouped, agro-kiting and pingponging mobs with bows, would they have a 120% exp penalty?

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:confused: I'm completely confused here?.. Groups don't suffer from having more hybrids that I'm aware of. Being a ranger in the group with 2 other rangers doesn't make your penalty any worse it will still be -40%

AFAIK, they would each take a 40% penalty. If a ranger was grouped with 2 others whose class/race didn't have any penalties, each person (including the ranger) would eat a 13.3% penalty.

It really just effects your average, if you have 3 rangers you have to kill exactly 3x as many mobs to keep up with the exp you would get solo.

If it was a warrior and 2 rangers together the warrior would have to kill more than 3 mobs to get his normal exp per kill, and the rangers would actually get more exp per 3 kills then they would solo kill because they are spreading out some of their exp penalty to the warrior.

I think they've not fixed the experience penalty sharing yet, so this is all moot.

Huh? I was hoping for a simple yes or no...instead i got 3 different answers.

Someone can correct me, but the way I understand it is:

- Mob dies to group, group receives XP

- XP is divided into 'shares' and each share is multiplied by a specific member's XP bonus or penalty

- The shares are re-aggregated and distributed to the group based on level.

So if a group of 3 rangers was awarded 300xp, the three shares of 100xp would be multiplied by .6, the products would be summed, then divided amongst the 3 players for an effective penalty of 40%.

If it was a ranger and 2 non-penalized classes (all of equal level) it would look something like:
300 to group --> 100*1(no penalty) + 100*1(no penalty) + 100*.6(ranger) --> 260/3 = 86.6xp to each player for an effective penalty of 13.3% to the whole group.

Someone with a more intimate understanding of the code can certainly correct me if I'm off, but this is how it was explained to me.

Actually Hippo and I gave you the same answer.

Hippo and I both are saying that no, it wouldn't be a 120% penalty.

Awesome, thanks guys.