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Originally Posted by jimmygarr
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This exp penalty is largely the cause of the lack of tanks in the game. Warriors are great in raids but boring as hell to play and have a hard time keeping aggro over an SK or Pally tank, but with the penalty these hybrid tanks are in short supply. I say if the penalty was MEANT to be in classic EQ it should stay, so keep the penalty on classes and races for now but drop the group sharing of the penalty. (If it was truly a bug and not intended, it should be removed here too right?) Maybe someone has the actual link to the Verant devs saying it was an accident? Either way, i know i prefer SK tanks regardless of penalty, and I know its not our call or our server and these devs do not answer to us. However the classes i personally enjoy are all hybrids and if there is going to be any change in the penalty it will only come from polite intelligent discussion on the part of the player base.
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The link has been posted before in these discussions. The argument has been "This is how it was in classic." Except we didn't know all the mechanics of the XP/group XP sharing in classic, so hybrids weren't shunned from groups because of it back then. The difference is now all the min-maxers know what's up. The argument to that has been "I don't see anyone refusing certain classes in groups based on the hybrid XP penalty being shared, so whatever." Since we can't come up with empirical proof otherwise, this is what we get. :P