Was the EXP penalty in classic?

[Barkingturtle]

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

So when you all say yes, were you answering yes to the first or second part of the Question? Was the penalty of race / class in the old classic live version of EQ?

Yes.

[Aadill]

We answered yes to the title of the thread.

V basically what he said

[baalzy]

Trolls have good regen
Ogres have frontal stun immunity
Both these races (and barbarians too) have really strong stats for the classes they can play, and the ability to slam to interrupt casters w/o using a shield. These advantages are why they have a racial xp penalty

Iksar have regen & ac bonus and good stats, which accounts for their xp penalty.

Halflings have a racial bonus because verant f'd up on live and gave it to them instead of humans and that f up was replicated to here.

Classes have penalties because they have more power than a vanilla class, although not by whole lot and with kunark that got evened out by adding discs & such, which is why the penalties were removed in velious.

[Nytewind TP]

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

Halflings have a racial bonus because verant f'd up on live and gave it to them instead of humans and that f up was replicated to here.

Yea [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I like playing a human. I love starting in Qeynos. That bonus would have made it even better.

[Striiker]

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

Yea [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I like playing a human. I love starting in Qeynos. That bonus would have made it even better.

I also love Qeynos. I never pay the XP stuff too much attention. I am having fun and really trying to avoid XP grinding and any penalty has never factored into my race ro clas selection nor has it impacted my decisions aroud who to group with. Last night I leveled up on my shadowknight and didn't realize I was due to level up. The mob died and I hear the ding and see the swirly graphics and I was pleasantly surprised. :-)

[Athosblack]

Which race get the bonus?

[guineapig]

halflings

[Supaskillz]

Clearly rangers need a huge xp penalty because they are overpowered. I can never find groups because they always want rangers

[Xanthias]

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

Clearly rangers need a huge xp penalty because they are overpowered. I can never find groups because they always want rangers

Really? Send them my way [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Werlop]

The penalties were because DnD hybrids had them and the Verant devs derived a lot of EQ's fantasy theme from DnD. So the penalty was copied over.