race / class specific experience bonus/penalty

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umak

Dalayan Beginner
Hi,

have played back on winter's roar, then for a while when it be came SoD. Loooong time ago with Ratkon/Arcadia & Beric etc. Good times.

Anyways, so i returned with a rl friend and we started leveling up the following:

HEF cleric
WEF ranger
HUM wizard

(and we use my enchanter and druid for buffs and whatnot on the side)

while exping in a group of 3 in blackburrow we noticed that both the ranger and wizard were leveling faster than the cleric. From the wizard this is expected: the Wiki states a 5% experience bonus for humans.

but the strange this is/was that the ranger is getting 10-15% more experience per kill. This seems far more than any racial bonus, unless the cleric gets some kind of penalty...none of those are mentioned on the wiki and my (badly skilled) searches on the forums didn't give me an answer either... note that we checked if any specific bonuses were different such as zone/group/new area etc, those were all the same.

Does anyone know if there are any class / race combination specific extra bonuses or penalties?
 
thanks for your response. From reading your link it seems equal to what is mentioned in the wiki, so far so good :)

We looked at progression through levels as well as the actual xp messages. The ranger is definately pulling ahead of the cleric in terms of leveling...and it's quite extreme (over the span of 3 levels it gained about 30-40% of a level extra).

EDIT: after changing zone (now cesspits) it now changed to equal xp for all characters. Either there was something strange going on with the specific group or its zone/class/race specific (blackburrow)
 
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umak said:
EDIT: after changing zone (now cesspits) it now changed to equal xp for all characters. Either there was something strange going on with the specific group or its zone/class/race specific (blackburrow)
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There is an exp modifier that scales downwards over amount of exp gained within a zone
 
Also, the Cleric/Wizard could be in an adventure band with a character that is out of group. This would cause them to gain XP more slowly than the ranger (if he was not in a band.)

This actually happened to me while I was leveling my pally and cleric. I ended up also having a level 64 wizard before I realized what I had done :p
 
thank you for the responses. Since we moved to cesspits the "problem" has disappeared. Maybe my cleric killed a few more npcs in the zone or something like that.

As for Ratkon; the funny thing is that i was the one telling him about winters roar and he started playing his magician (at the time we were in the same class at college). He later swapped to warrior + arcadia as his cleric i think. Fun times...ah well ;)
 
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