Penalty for DC?

[wikk]

Someone told me that we were discouraged from 2 boxing so they penalized us for it.
Is there an experience penalty for having just 2 characters in a group?

 

[Minerios]

Not really.

If a character solos, he gets 100% of the exp.

2-6 chars together get 50% of the exp each.

2 characters ought to be able to kill stuff fast enough/with little enough downtime to make it at least as viable as soloing. Adding more chars to the group speeds up the killing, and thus the exp.

 

[volvov2]

First, Why are you using red text, it doesnt go good on these colors. syduck:

and it really isn't a penalty, 1 person will get 1000 xp on a mob, 2 will get 500 xp on a mob (makes sense right?), BUT if you add a 3rd person, you still get 500, and 4-6 people gets 500 also.

 

[Elysium]

Instead of thinking it as a penalty for DCing, think of it as a bonus for grouping.

 

[Harziel]

a very viable bonus for grouping, encouraing you to group more people to kill faster
Its a small population relative to live. Makes better community somewhat.

 

[Dzillon]

Uh there is some kind of penaly...I kill a light blue mob in solo for 3K xp (like in Freeport since I had to chill out there a bit) ; as soon as I group, gives 500xp. Now that I think of it it might just apply to light blues...

 

[rab]

There's a bonus for killing light blues solo.

 

[calaran]

Wow, I had no idea that existed. Assuming you're being serious, then would you get more exp for a solo lt.blue or regular blue kill?

I'm assuming it's enough difference to make it beneficial to solo lt. blues just because they're easier than regular blues, but probably not enough to make them worth numerically more than regular blues.

If I'm being gullible, or if I'm showing my newbness, I apologize... I just had never heard this, and it would explain a couple things.

 

[Xardon]

Calaran go back to 3K

 

[calaran]

Where you will shortly be losing your character

 

[Aaubert]

the following information may be completely innacurate:

You get the same amount of XP per mob kill with 2 people in the group as you do with 6. So its not like you're getting penalized for killing with 2, but if you had 4 other people there, you could do a buttload more damage to mobs and kill lots, lots faster, getting the same amount of xp per mob.

 

[Foonie]

Wow, I had no idea that existed. Assuming you're being serious, then would you get more exp for a solo lt.blue or regular blue kill?

I'm assuming it's enough difference to make it beneficial to solo lt. blues just because they're easier than regular blues, but probably not enough to make them worth numerically more than regular blues.

If I'm being gullible, or if I'm showing my newbness, I apologize... I just had never heard this, and it would explain a couple things.

You can solo light blues at almost the same rate you can blue kills, if not faster. A blue mob gives more experience than a light blue one.

 

[Ell_man]

Homogenn said,

You can solo light blues at almost the same rate you can blue kills, if not faster. A blue mob gives more experience than a light blue one.

This is generally true, but not always. I believe there is a point around lvl 50 where mob hp ramps up considerably. If you can fight monsters that are light blue but under that point vs monsters who are db and above it you'll get experience so much faster killing lbs.

I'm not sure if lb mobs at lvl 65 fall under that point however.

-Ralexia