How does that work? I thought players had to do 50% of the damage or they lose 50% of the XP.
I would think damage shields would make it harder, because that's more damage not being done by the player.
Players have to outdamage the pets + DS, right? If mages only did 20% of the damage then they lose 50% XP. That's how I've always thought it worked. It's not that they have to make sure the pets do less than 50% of the damage, it's that they have to make sure they themselves do more than 50% of the damage.
I would like clarification of this as well. Damage shields are a neutral source of damage, but if what matters is how much damage the player does vs how much the pet does, damage shields might make it more difficult. They'd make killing faster overall but each kill potentially 50% less XP.
Here's the question: Do we have to make sure the pet does not do 51%+ of the damage, or do we have to make sure we as players do 51%+ of the damage? There's a huge difference between the two, and I always thought it was the latter. If in a party of multiple pets, do we have to make sure one individual pet does not do 51%+ of the damage? (which I can't see happening). In my experience in a pet-heavy party, three pets gave us a whopping XP penalty unless we nuked the crap out of the mobs as well. It was bad enough the cleric with us was imploring us to nuke away so the XP wouldn't suck so bad. No one single pet did 51%+ of the damage, but between the three of them they did the majority of damage.
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