ZEM Listings

[loramin]

Originally Posted by 7thGate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It wouldn't be quite as complicated as that. I did some testing with relative XP for gnoll fangs in Halas vs. Qeynos by taking screenshots and counting the number of pixels of blue on the XP bar before and after turnins (turns out its the same on a per-fang basis, as long as you are high enough level to avoid hitting the per-turnin cap in Halas). You could do a few kills, then use the XP movement to project with reasonable accuracy the amount you would need to level. Assuming the XP formulas to level listed in the wiki are accurate, you don't even need to compare to anywhere else to solve for the ZEM.

That's basically the ShowEQ way, just with less specificity (I don't know how many decimal places of XP ShowEQ shows, but it's probably more specific than the pixel count). You can figure out "this zone is better than that zone" fairly quickly that way, but to get the actual percentage you need some decent numbers (eg. killing 10 in one zone and 11 in another could mean a relative ZEM of 90% ... or it could mean one of 85.6% or 94.4%; you'd have to kill more to find out). And again, quests make it seem easy: the hard part is just killing mobs of the exact same level long enough in two different zones.

Even if you assume (based on the wiki) that certain zones are baseline, you still have to kill X mobs of Y level in both a baseline zone and another zone (where X is however many it takes to determine the percentage; too lazy to do the math so that's why I said "a level or more", but in retrospect X is probably smaller than that).

Let's say you want to figure out the ZEM of Kedge (a popular ZEM question zone). You and a slightly lower character both need to go there, then the lower level character needs to find an even con mob, then you need to kill it without killing any other mob. That's like ten minutes right there IF you can pacify the mobs around your mob; if not you might need a third friend to kill the off-level mobs. Then you need to repeat that X times, then you'd need to do the same in a zone you assume to be ZEM 75 ... which also has mobs the same level as your friend.