Game Mechanics: Pet taking half exp

[Potus]

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

Because they changed the rules from what they were 3 months before:
You've got to be in denial to believe that a correction citing another developer (meaning it's even less likely to be incorrect) is outright false.

Or it could be that Verant was talking out of its ass and three different developers were all saying contradictory shit within 90 days of one another.

What you're advocating is that all pet classes should have an experience penalty larger than an Iksar Shadowknight. (pet takes 70%, race+class exp penalty was 10%)

Don't you think people would have noticed that during Classic?

[uniqueuser]

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

Don't you think people would have noticed that during Classic?

Some of them did:

1) Is there any chance that in the future the experience penalty for a pet doing over 50% of the damage while soloing to any monster will be removed? -Ghalon Soulburn

A) There's always a chance. Again, we'll look at that as well when we review casters. However, remember that whatever 'soloing ability' Mages have now (whether considered great or average) would be dramatically increased if pets suddenly stopped earning experience for all of their hard work and sacrifice.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20030...ML/000511.html

Whether or not exp was split if a pet did over 50% of the damage isn't the issue here, because it irrefutably was.

[Potus]

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

Some of them did:http://wayback.archive.org/web/20030...ML/000511.html

That doesn't say anything about having an exp penalty greater than Troll Shadowknights.

Seriously, you'd think someone would have noticed that, no?

[uniqueuser]

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

That doesn't say anything about having an exp penalty greater than Troll Shadowknights.

I believe the way this is implemented on P99 is that the awarded exp is simply being halved, whereas on Live the exp was split as if the pet were another player, meaning the pet's level would've been factored into the calculation.

After level 20, the mage tends to be several levels higher than his highest pet, so he would've received more than 50% exp, in proportion to the level difference between them.