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Originally Posted by lecompte
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Couple of Notes:
1) 70% of the fun in EQ happens GETTING to level 60 so if you have a group that is a lot of fun, who cares about the penalty?
2) I wear plate.
3) Racial penalties are not shared.
4) Rangers can old agro, and if you have enough slow/dps, it don't matter if you tank worse than a chanter w/o rune 5. (group last night with two backstabbing chanter pets can attest to this)
As a ranger, who has brought the 40% penalty to every group I've been in, I've enjoyed leveling. That exhaltation you get from completing a level? Imagine a level that is 40% harder and thus, 40% more exciting when you finally do it and that is just by the numbers -- disregarding the fact that it is 40% more challenging to get a group.
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All the exp penalties are shared, both class and racial, because the penalty is inherent to the total onhand exp the player has.
The penalty itself is just how much exp it takes you to level. The "penalty" isn't what's actually figured in the group, it's the total exp the person has. A freshly dinged lev 50 ranger has 140% of the exp of a freshly dinged lev 50 human cleric. That's what the calculation is looking at when determining how much exp each person gets. Not what level they are, not what race/class they are, but how much total exp they have.
If one person has 140000 exp and the other person has 100000 exp, then they group together, the person with 140000 exp is going to get about 58% of the exp the mob has to give (140000 + 100000 = 240000, 140000/240000 = ~.583). Then the remaining ~42% to the other guy. Whether that happened because the 140000 xp guy is a few levels higher, or is a bard, ranger etc, or any combination of things resulting in one person having more total exp on hand...the game doesn't look at.
If it was a troll SK, then we'd be looking at the same deal. The troll part would still be "shared", since it contributed to them having a longer exp bar. In the troll SK case, the freshly dinged lev 50 troll sk has 168% of the exp onhand that the freshly dinged 50 human cleric does. Calculation changes accordingly, concept remains the same.