Duration of Shared Grp XP Penalties

[Arclanz]

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

Mani, you are incorrect.

Not long after release the player base knew that the leveling of certain race/classes were slower than others. Being and DE/SK at release I experienced this penalty first hand. Brad and company finally admitted to the exp penalties since he couldnt explain away the differences in leveling speeds. Then he tried to justifiy the penalties. For example he said SKs got penalties since they were such a powerful class...funny.

Nobody wanted an SK in a group...couldnt tank and fubared exp.

Now this DEV team is going down the same stupid path claiming its classic..blah blah blah. Lots of things that were classic seem to be changed in project 1999.

Classic is fine...but get rid of the things that are just stupid about classic. This is one of them.

I think the more uber players knew, but not the player base. I was one of the first paladins on brell to get full valorium. But I don't recall that xp penalty being common knowledge until the company made an announcement and fixed the problem. When was that? I had to be in my 40s or higher. My guild and I certainly did not know of this xp penalty. I found it far easier to level my sep 2000 cleric than I did my July 1999 Paladin.