Shadowknight, what race is best?

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

Nice post Propo, but racial exp penalty isn't shared with groupmates. Only the class penalty.

To my knowledge this is incorrect. I will concede the possibility I am wrong and I'd like to hear why you think that. The exp penalty works by making any given race and class combination require more experience to attain the same level compared to normal. The race and class penalty combine as multipliers in a formula that spits out a higher exp need to level -- pretty straight forward.

Likewise, when you group and kill something, the game divides up the experience based on the total experience each player has attained. So if player A has 200 xp and player B has 100, player A essentially gets 2/3rds of the experience awarded.

So from a practical perspective, this means an ogre SK will take a greater share of the exp pie than a DE SK of the same level, who will likewise take more exp than a human cleric of the same level, because the ogre SK will have a lot more total experience. Based on this it really doesn't make any sense to think the racial penalty is not shared by groups. This would be easy to prove or disprove experimentally using a couple of level ones, but unless you have some strong evidence to support that racial penalties aren't shared I'd say its a foregone conclusion.

My reference: http://wiki.project1999.org/Game_Mec...perience_Works