Experience Per Mob

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wiki is also pretty wrong about con ranges as you approach higher levels.

In any event, killing greens isn't worth doing for experience, period. You don't need to know the specifics on it, I would lean way more towards 10-25% of their original XP once they're green.

Quadding a pack of green wyverns or two won't move the XP bar, but having a single blue mob in that pack does. The difference in xp gain from a blue and green con mob is enormous. Really you should only be killing green mobs in an effort to get more blue mobs to spawn.

The experience calculator that was created for Green back in the day doesn't seem to indicate this. And based on my leveling experience the calculator seemed accurate. There were times when I'd actually level faster killing high greens because it was more efficient and easy because of the camp I was at and high greens only required like 10% more kills to level than low blues.

[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The experience calculator that was created for Green back in the day doesn't seem to indicate this. And based on my leveling experience the calculator seemed accurate. There were times when I'd actually level faster killing high greens because it was more efficient and easy because of the camp I was at and high greens only required like 10% more kills to level than low blues.

I'd also take high greens in a zone with a high ZEM than hard blues in a low ZEM area.

Thats why you stay in warrens / perma / CT / paw as long as possible.

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The experience calculator that was created for Green back in the day doesn't seem to indicate this. And based on my leveling experience the calculator seemed accurate. There were times when I'd actually level faster killing high greens because it was more efficient and easy because of the camp I was at and high greens only required like 10% more kills to level than low blues.

Leveling from 51-60 this was extraordinarily not true. I quadded wyverns and suits for ages. The moment you start seeing greens you start seeing inconsistent XP because greens barely provide XP.

At 59 quadding suits of sentient armor, there's about a 50/50 shot each spawn will be green, and they're only one or two levels below being blue if they are. I would typically con all 4 before pulling. In one unlucky streak I had 3/4 greens for each pull and it took 4 quads to get 1%. In contrast, 2 quads of 3/4 blues would give me 1% regularly.

6 blues and 2 greens gave me 1%, 4 blues and 12(!) greens gave me 1%. The rate of 4-5 greens to equate to a single blue kill has been pretty consistent to me since like level 35 when I started quadding. I saw similar results at gnolls, spirocs, bloodgills, etc.

-Edit: Sure, in high ZEM zones where a few greens might equate to one outdoor blue, maybe this is totally fine, but that just means a single low blue is substantially more xp anyways.

[eqravenprince]

I can definitely confirm the wiki is incorrect about green exp giving mobs. At 41 I was getting 1-2% per kill against the blue con level 30 guards at tower 2 in West Karana. Now I'm 42, they turned green, and I still get 1-2% per kill against them. Now maybe eventually it's 50% exp, but not at the moment when they first turned green.

[Kich867]

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

I can definitely confirm the wiki is incorrect about green exp giving mobs. At 41 I was getting 1-2% per kill against the blue con level 30 guards at tower 2 in West Karana. Now I'm 42, they turned green, and I still get 1-2% per kill against them. Now maybe eventually it's 50% exp, but not at the moment when they first turned green.

Just so I'm clear, at level 42, you killed a green mob and got 2% of your level for it?

That sounds pretty suss. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's about 125 mobs per level killing low blue cons as they give ~1 tick (there's 125ish ticks per xp bar) of xp.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just so I'm clear, at level 42, you killed a green mob and got 2% of your level for it?

That sounds pretty suss. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's about 125 mobs per level killing low blue cons as they give ~1 tick (there's 125ish ticks per xp bar) of xp.

I don’t think you realize how low the difference is between a high green and a low blue in terms of total exp. Your rambling rant about levels in the 50s is more a result of the insane amounts of exp required for many of those levels

[eqravenprince]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just so I'm clear, at level 42, you killed a green mob and got 2% of your level for it?

That sounds pretty suss. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's about 125 mobs per level killing low blue cons as they give ~1 tick (there's 125ish ticks per xp bar) of xp.

Umm ok... well if you don't believe me, I'm not sure how I'd prove it to you. I'm Halfling Warrior, does that help, biggest exp bonus in the game.

[eqravenprince]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's about 125 mobs per level killing low blue cons as they give ~1 tick (there's 125ish ticks per xp bar) of xp.

Not sure what you mean by ticks, my UI shows %exp and I can see how much exp % it goes up after each kill. And no it did not take 125 kills to get from 41 to 42. It was more like 80 kills. I'm 53% into 42 right now. I will count exactly how many level 30 green con guards it takes to get to 43 and report back.

[eqravenprince]

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

Not sure what you mean by ticks, my UI shows %exp and I can see how much exp % it goes up after each kill. And no it did not take 125 kills to get from 41 to 42. It was more like 80 kills. I'm 53% into 42 right now. I will count exactly how many level 30 green con guards it takes to get to 43 and report back.

Alright dinged 43, here to report back. To get that remaining 47% against level 30 green con guards took 30 kills. So that's 1.567% per kill.

[eqravenprince]

Now that I'm 43, things have definitely changed against the same green con mob. So while when it first turned green, I saw no difference. Definitely a difference now on the 2nd level it's green.