AAXP tweaks

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Foma

Dalayan Adventurer
Wiz, please consider an AAXP xp bonus, even a slight one, for singled main chars. Nearly all my DC brethren and friends have not just more aaxp for similar time spent, but like 2x what I have. I feel slighted.

Any possibility of something like this?

P.S. I'd rather it stay this way than net a nerf to those who DC. I just wanted some form of help on my aaxp grinding. My DC friends don't all put in more time than me, but reap way, way more benefit.

Thanks for thinkin about it.
 
I agree that it's hard (and boring) soloing at higher levels, and even harder getting a group. DC is fine when there is no other possibility, but I'm sure that's what most people do.
 
As someone who DCs and solos, I guess I would like to see a bonus for soloers to reflect the skill involved.

KAS
 
I know this is slightlly off topic, but since you seem to have disparity in finding groups sometimes just like me, here is a quick suggestion =P

I feel your pain as a bard, but, imagine this...a bard/bard duo, both go grab 20-30 mobs, and rack up the kills chant kiting. There won't be much conversation in the group, but the exp will flow in. :D

Or better yet, a group of bards, imagine the possibilities! :eek:


Note: That is if there is enough bards on this server to form a whole group.


Lucli
64 Bard <Beyond>

P.S. If you ever are LFG, I would gladly duo with ya and see what 2 bards could do(well after our songs are fixxed.)
 
By the way, I wasn't asking for soloing XP increase. "Singled Main", as in, someone who plays just one char. I just done have the PC beef to duo, so I get the reward of going slower, for nearly the same effort and exactly the same time others put into it.
 
Psst... when you are solo, you can exp on lightblues with almost blue-like efficiency.
 
Chiming in that I'd bet good money this would be an absolute assraping nightmare to implement.
 
1) Doubt it would be possible to implement.
2) I assume it would only be for non-dual clienters when they are soloing, in which case it would completely shaft most melee classes, while hugely benefitting necros, mages, druids, etc. Definitely not a particularly fair solution.
3) While DCing, I still get several times better xp grouping than duoing. The only time grouping isn't preferable is if I'm farming, rather than xping. Of course, that might be different for other class combinations. Pally/Shm is pretty awesome as far as taking down a big mob goes, but the sustained DPS isn't so hot.

Just some thoughts.
 
sp4mm said:
Psst... when you are solo, you can exp on lightblues with almost blue-like efficiency.
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See this. It was what was added in to help soloers. Light blues will give you almost as much exp as blues as long as you're all on your own.
 
I think I know of one decent place to find light blues and a few dark blues at 65. Anything else would most likely be light blues and greens, all greens, or non existant. Pretty much anything exp able at 65 seems to be dark blue and geared toward a duel boxer or even a group.
 
The plaguelands have a good mix of light/dark blue mobs (though maybe a little more on the dark blue side). Pumas/(some) Scorpions/Worshippers/Priests are all dark blue, while (other) Scorpions/Snakes/Spiders are light blue. In EPL (not too sure about West) Its easy to pick them out as usually the light blues are the wanderers (save the desert basin thingy, where pumas/scorpions wander about) around the grassy region.
 
Wiz said:
sp4mm said:
Psst... when you are solo, you can exp on lightblues with almost blue-like efficiency.
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See this. It was what was added in to help soloers. Light blues will give you almost as much exp as blues as long as you're all on your own.
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Well, I've solo'd a fair bit (before the grand experiment, of course). Soloing light blues *bites* for XP over time. And, to address my original suggestion, soloing gets me (just a ballpark) about a quarter the xp-over-time that a DCer of nearly any 2 classes would get for the same time period. Hence my suggestion. It just doesn't sit well with me that I put in some 4 hours 'soloing' (truly solo), while a guy who merely has a beefier PC puts in the same 4 hours an nets 2-3 times the XP and loot. Add to that he can try things I can't and it leaves my playtime wanting something. Light blue solo for a bard (taking 3 or 4 minutes to kill) is not what you'd expect.

The fact I currently cannot solo is not the cause for this post, btw. I've felt this way for a long time and just sucked it up. I currently have some 130+ AA's. DCers with my time have a lot more. If it's slammed down my throat "No Change Will Be Forthcoming", I will live with it. But there's (usually) no harm in asking.

Also, if the bard experiment gets worked out, that will certainly mean it gets EASIER to make a kill, but it also means it will take LONGER per kill. Unless you so seriously up our dots to make them anywhere near the dmg of all 4 dots on at once. For me, my dot dmg was 186+186+168+168 per tick. It would take 1 dot doing nearly all that dmg to be close to my previous dps rate =( Not very likely, heh. The relic dot doesnt even do that much and takes a horrendous amount of raids to acquire.
 
So you're saying that ANY DCed pair kills mobs eight times faster than you?

Yeah, okay, no.
 
Wiz said:
So you're saying that ANY DCed pair kills mobs eight times faster than you?

Yeah, okay, no.
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Actually, I didn't say just that.

aaburog said:
soloing gets me (just a ballpark) about a quarter the xp-over-time
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. And I didn't say "ANY", I said
aaburog said:
nearly any 2 classes
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My point wasn't to mince words, however. You obviously know we only have anecdotal information. That doesn't mean automatically discounted information. It doesn't mean I have a timer on that DC'ers kills or some hidden way of seeing his ACTUAL XP. I merely wanted to point out what I think is a disparity and was kindly asking those who DO have these numbers and logs available to them if they would find the time to do a quick check of real/raw data and see if there is a problem, whether big or small.

If you devs don't want to answer, or don't want to take the time digging to see if it's a problem, fine. Say so. That's a whole lot more productive than what's been said. Or, better yet, make my day. Recode mob xp for truly single kills.

Thanks for looking into this, if ya do.
 
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