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Originally Posted by maestrom
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Not assuming they both soloed.
a halfling warrior requires 0.855exp, an iksar SK requires 1.68exp
settem equal, 0.855x = 1.68x and you're left with x(halfling war) = 1.96x (iksar sk)
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tl;dr: Your level is decided by your exp total, it doesn't matter how you acquired the exp.
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While your numbers are all correct (except for 'x = 1.96x,' that's off a bit), you're not taking into account the way leveling actually happens. Let's take the example of the HFL-WAR grouping with the IKS-SK: it's impossible for them both to level to 60 while in the same group, because the Iksar will stop gaining experience when the Halfling out-levels him too far. Similarly, the Iksar can't then pick up a level 1 Halfling, because the Halfling won't gain experience in that group.
How likely do you think a level 49 Halfling Cleric is to group with a level 41 Iksar Shadowknight? Well, they have the same XP total (source:
http://web.archive.org/web/200108040...p/xpchart.html). The fact is that people tend to group with others around the same level as themselves, because that's what makes it easiest to gauge how tough the fights will be, and maximize the group's ability to kill things.
If everyone only grouped with people of the exact same experience total, then the penalties would clearly show who'd spent way more time. But since they don't, it happens more like this:
HFL CLR (150,000,000 xp) duoing with IKS SK (275,000,000 xp) kills a mob worth 1,000 xp. The group bonus is applied (1.02*1,000=1020), and the xp is split proportionally ([150/425]*1020=360) with 360 to the Halfling and 660 to the Iksar, meaning that Iksar is getting 1.8333... times the xp that the Halfling is getting per mob.