Official Staff Explanation on how Green Hybrid/Race Penalty XP will function, please?

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Originally Posted by magusfire24 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes Gotta do 51% damage for full XP

Or just recall the pet; a pet that isn't alive any more gets no cut of the XP. Malachite is cheap for a reason!


Seriously though, I don't understand how people still make such a big deal over this. It's simple; there are two pieces, experience required to level, and experience share of a given kill. I'm 96% sure my understanding is correct that gaining a given level requires X amount of experience. If you have a penalty(or bonus), all it does is modify X. If I have a 20% penalty, I require 1.2*X amount of experience to gain that same level. If I'm a Troll SK, it's 1.68*X.

How much XP each toon in a group receives is also simple. Each player has a sum total of their XP, call that Ytoon. Take the total XP held by all members of the group, let's call that Yall. Any given toon receives Ytoon/Yall share of the total XP from a kill. That troll SK has 1.68 times more XP than you, all levels being equal, so he gets a bigger cut.

Imagine this group; assume they're all exactly the same level:

Halfling cleric (5% bonus, Ytoon=.95)
Barbarian rogue (4.5% bonus, Ytoon=.955)
Gnome mage (10% penalty, Ytoon=1.1)
Dark Elf enchanter (10% penalty, Ytoon=1.1)
Iksar monk (44% penalty, Ytoon=1.44)
Ogre SK (61% penalty, Ytoon=1.61)

Yall=7.225
The hobbit cleric gets 13.1%
Barb rogue gets 13.2%
The mage and chanter each get 15.2%
The lizard monk gets 19.9%
The fat ogre gets 22.3%

If you switch that ogre SK to, let's say, a dwarf warrior (terrible substitute, but whatever...), the split would become:

The drunk little warrior gets 13.8%
Hobbit cleric gets 14.6%
Barb rogue gets 14.7%
The mage and chanter each get 16.9%
The lizard monk gets 22.1%

Switching that awesome SK for that shitty warrior would net the cleric 11% more XP overall, while the monk gets 9% more. Not insignificant, but not going to break anyone either.

In your average leveling group, the SK is usually going to have much more utility. SK is anywhere from mediocre to arguably the best puller, depending on situation. SKs have way better aggro and have snare. True, Warriors do put out more damage. Paladins are harder to defend, I'll have to leave that for someone else. Rangers and Bards have incredible utility too, and they don't come from penalty races.

Anyways, saying "I'll never invite a penalty class to my group" is probably shooting yourself in the foot if you're willing to sacrifice kill rate or survivability, and you might end up with a bad reputation for yourself. A shitty-to-mediocre warrior is going to be disastrous compared a most SKs. Warriors are totally gear dependent, whereas a poorly geared paladin or SK should have zero trouble holding aggro.