Hybrid Exp Penalty Affects The Entire Group

[Danth]

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

And I'm enjoying Green (have a 21 Monk and 19 Shammy) but I definitely noticed the slowdown when I had two hybrids in my group last night for example. That's the less tangible tradeoff though: the Bard was pulling and his regen song undoubtedly reduced our downtime by a large margin, and the SK tanking w/ Disease Cloud ensured that I was able to slow every mob immediately on pull (further reducing our downtime via saving the main healer mana).

Note that your Monk also carries a 20% experience penalty, and the Shaman inevitably has some modest penalty due to race (all Shaman races have a penalty).

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(at no-one in particular) For the past ten years on P1999 I've noticed two tendencies in these discussions about class experience penalties: First, folks seem to forget that level plays a part too, and second those same folks also tend to forget that many classes have experience penalties, not just the hybrid classes. It reached peak absurdity when P1999 was in Kunark and just about no-one ever cared about Iksar Monk's 44% penalty even though it's greater than a stock Paladin/Ranger penalty. I anticipate more of the same on P1999-Green/Teal.

Danth