I found some more evidence to corroborate the initial findings. Had some trouble getting the direct link to work, but if you go to the EQ newsgroups
here, then search "Power Level of Druid from L1-50".
In the initial post has the following info on the bracer quest:
Quote:
At L36, I went to West Karana. I kill Cyclops brothers, Froon & Phoon, and
the lower corrupt guard. The cyclops are 17 minutes spawn, so I can run to
south tower to kill the guard and gate back to kill the cyclops again. When
the lower guard green out, I start to kill the higher guard. But he resist a
lot, he can resist two DOT in a row from me!!!! There is an advantage to
kill this guards, for their bracers. Turn these bracer to the Captain in the
North Karana for xp and items. 3 bracers can make xp equal to a blue kill.
It is good xp.
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A 'blue kill' at level 36 is a pretty wide range, but I would err towards the higher side of the mobs based on he was killing at the time (cyclops' are 30+ and the 'higher level guard' he mentions is level 35 if the wiki is to be believed).
Assuming NK has a 75% ZEM mod (I don't know for sure, maybe it was 100% on live in era?) I show a blue mob exp range is 54,675 (level 27) to 91,875 (level 35) experience points. Divide those by 3 turn ins and exp would be 18,225 to 30,625 experience points per turn in.
That is slightly lower than the 37,572 exp points figure I calculated earlier, but I'm not sure exactly on the ZEM and what level the blue mob he was referring to is.
Assuming a higher ZEM of 100%, exp range for blue mob at 36 would be 72,900 (level 27) to 122,500 (level 35), divided by 3 that would be 24,300 to 40,833 experience points per hand in, which is in line with the original suggested figure.
Just thought I would share that info. There are other posts claiming it is good exp for the quest and a '2 for 1' for the quest (meaning 2 bracer hand ins equal 1 guard kill). I still think the original post link is the most valid information to go off of, with this new link giving a bit of added confidence to the figure.