Exp Question

[casey]

i havent tested it to see if this is still the case, but if you are far enough from your party members to get "You recieve experience" instead of "You recieve party experience", you get the group bonus applied to your exp, but no split. Your other party members need to be in the same zone.

dont know if that still works though.

[serberus]

so the ultimate power levelling location has to be this method in the hole =)

25% ZEM
20% group exp modifier

thats some nice theory =)

Serberus

[RSB]

One thing to note about PL is going to the zone with the highest ZEM is the key. Normally those zones are harder thus take longer.

I guess if you can have 5 friends log in and sit across the zone while you solo then yea the extra 20% is nice. But I bet if you planned a group more proper you could get faster xp with 2 people.

We know that at higher levels a mob only gives about 6% more xp per level. Problem is that it often takes a lot more time to kill those mobs. Fastest xp after 20 is finding the right mobs that are just blue to you or are just piss weak to begin with.

My key to PL is find mobs that can flow at a steady rate with little down time.

[fryfrog]

city of mist is a super place for this. the mobs aren't exceptionally hard, the ZEM is pretty high, there are TONS of mobs, they don't run AND it is a fairly unpopular zone to exp in.

i can do a level or two an hour in this place pl'ing with a 55ish druid and a 54ish cleric. great place, even around 50th i'd say.

[SlowNLazy]

Just stirring the pot a little.... and possibly stretching this BUT I want to make sure I understand this....

Ok .... find a zone, let's say the ubah HOLE....
Now find 3 teams of two people and all join one group.... Say one doing Ent... Maybe one doing CY outside of Castle, and one doing the tunnels past castle(don't ask how we got there.. just pretend).... AND for the sake of argueing.. the distance between camps is great enough to not get XP from each other's "camp"...

Question: Do you get BOTH the group bonus and ZEM in all 3 teams?

Heh 2 3-man squads in ME, Seb, Charsis, UP, etc......

[RSB]

Hmmm interesting
Never thought of that.

when you are off by yourself you don't get party exp but if you where with another you would. Thus it MIGHT give you the bonus for all 6 people.

[Mr Guy]

Without having tested it, based entirely off of what others have said before, I'd have to go with yes.


In fact, before I suggested a possible PL method of getting five friends (accounts) to park a level 1 in your group at the safe spot of any zone. Based on previous testing (NOT done by me) that OUGHT to multiply your exp by 1/6th.

It's a good enough idea I suppose I should eventually test it out myself, since I have access to 5 accounts.


Of course it will be not helpful for those PLing against reds at low levels, as I would think the 1/11th cap would still be in place.

[RSB]

Though that might soud good I've questioned that before

We know the formula for Group xp is
(your lvl + 5) / (Total Group Lvls + (5 * Number in group))
so if your level 55 say it would be
60 / 90 would be your share. 2/3rd....hmmm doesn't look to good

I expect that even though they don't keep their xp that you still only get your 2/3rds of the xp

That makes me think that the xp formula might count your group as the number of people in your group that are close by too.

Hard to say without testing.