Is 2x exp confirmed?

[Reguiy]

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

2x or not, placebo effect had me get 27% of 59 so far. More than I've made in 3 months.

Almost got my necro to 30! Mmmm! That sugar pill so tasty.

[Sajan]

Speaking as someone who is currently leveling a low level char, I would generally get 1-1.4% exp per kill, solo, killing dark blues. Now I'm definitely getting 25-50% more than that per kill, jumping 2% per kill sometimes. Doesn't seem double, but def seems 50%ish~

:cheers:

[Goseals6]

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

when sirken starts streaming again ask him yourself, what do you need him to type up a letter and get it notarized?

Nope. I'm sure as his official spokesman you'll be sure to let everyone know.

I'd rather have the word from the source instead of little fly's on the wall.

[fastboy21]

sirken said in stream about 10 minutes ago that it is double. he said he won't retype the motd because its a pita to list the BOTB info again.

[A1551]

So I did a quick empiric test to confirm this. A while back I empirically tested pet exp penaltys using a lvl 1 DE chanter and DUXAUI (which gives % of level per kill) and those results are posted at the bottom. From that experiment I know what I got for soloing a lvl 1 mob as a lvl 1 DE chanter in nektulos back in december. The number per kill solo (no pet) was 11%.

I logged in today, created another lvl 1 DE enchanter, and killed three level one mobs. I got 8% on first kill and 9% on the next two (due to duxa rounding to nearest percentage point). Conclusion -- no exp bonus, and unless I'm missing something really obvious it is actually an exp nerf. (Alternatively, something about the way exp is generated changed btw december and now, like a decreased ZEM for netkulos..seems unlikely but who knows)

Now It is 8pm EST sunday night as a write this, maybe the exp bonus was already gone..but if that were the case i'd expect to at least get 11% per kill.

Originally Posted by A1551 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Experiment complete :P

So 100% confirmed there is no experience penalty in groups. Thanks to options the necro for assistance, and Hyasinth for heroing my lvl 1 pet. We both made brand new level ones (enchanters cuz apparently lvl 1 mages dont get pets who knew!?)

We did a few kills with him (no pet) killing level one mobs grouped with me, with him doing 100% of damage -- 5 or 6% per kill (due to rounding on duxaui display). Then we had my chanter animation solo some stuff doing 100% damage -- I did zero damage by finding decaying skellies who would just attack me and let pet do rest. Also got either 5 or 6% exp per kill. That's pretty much it right there -- grouped exp penalties for pets do not exist, even if pet does 100% of the damage. I also tried a few times just doing one hit on mob and letting pet do rest for sake of thoroughness -- 5 or 6% per kill.

Finally, I degrouped and tried soloing just to confirm the solo penalty is 50%, as sometimes Ive been told things like "it's actually 75% not 50%." Being solo and letting pet do 100% of damage -- once again netted me either 5 or 6% per kill. This makes perfect sense, as instead of splitting the exp with Options lvl 1 I was splitting it with my pet. Next, I dumped my pet and soloed some level ones -- lo and behold exactly 11% per kill.

To summarize -- there is no pet exp penalty in groups in any way, shape or form, even if pet does 100% of the damage.

-Propo Fol

[Raavak]

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

this makes no sense to a mind boggling degree. after 1 hour of exp you can usually tell if its double or not

2x a big number is still double...

[Sarius]

Originally Posted by A1551 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I did a quick empiric test to confirm this. A while back I empirically tested pet exp penaltys using a lvl 1 DE chanter and DUXAUI (which gives % of level per kill) and those results are posted at the bottom. From that experiment I know what I got for soloing a lvl 1 mob as a lvl 1 DE chanter in nektulos back in december. The number per kill solo (no pet) was 11%.

I logged in today, created another lvl 1 DE enchanter, and killed three level one mobs. I got 8% on first kill and 9% on the next two (due to duxa rounding to nearest percentage point). Conclusion -- no exp bonus, and unless I'm missing something really obvious it is actually an exp nerf. (Alternatively, something about the way exp is generated changed btw december and now, like a decreased ZEM for netkulos..seems unlikely but who knows)

Now It is 8pm EST sunday night as a write this, maybe the exp bonus was already gone..but if that were the case i'd expect to at least get 11% per kill.

Sounds like Rogean is the best troll in forum history...

[A1551]

I'm sure it's just an oversight, hopefully with a bit of evidence that there was no bonus over the weekend they'll take a look at it and hopefully fix the issue for future exp bonus periods,

[Reubin]

Leveling my 33 Iksar Monk in Frontier Mountains around the giant fort:
Before the weekend: 1-2% xp per kill. Usually it alternates 1% on one kill and then 2% on the next.
During the weekend: exactly the same

IMO there must be a bug causing the bonus not to work if it is supposed to be on. If it was 2x xp i should be seeing 2%-3% on every kill. No big deal IMO so don't take it as complaining. I don't feel the playerbase was "owed" any xp bonus just because of necessary server maintenance. Just pointing out that something must be going on if an xp bonus was set on the server but no one seems to be getting it.

[Masq]

theres no bonus