Scaling XP bonus stops early

[Tecmos Deception]

I tested red level 1 xp compared to blue. A level 1 ogre SK on red gets ~10% xp from killing a level 1 in feerrott, while a level 1 ogre SK on blue get's ~5% fom the same mob/zone. So 100% bonus, right? Seems like the 100%->0% 1->50 scaling bonus is still in place. And Sirken said that it is still supposed to be, just that the global bonus to xp on red should be gone now, and that new things are in the works for XP, but he suggested I report this anyway.

Anyway, in 45 I am not seeing any xp bonus at all.

I have logs of Tecmos doing bloodgills in LOIO on blue, and it took 125 kills to get through all of level 45. Leveling in the same place, same class, same method on red? Well, it took 25 kills to get 1 yellow... i.e. 125 kills to get through all of 45. Even if my math is slightly off, it is only off by a couple kills. If the scaling xp bonus is still in effect at 45 though I should be seeing at least 10ish fewer kills required to get through 45 than I saw on blue over a year ago.

[heartbrand]

Was the blue portion done during a global exp bonus?

[Tecmos Deception]

The blue xping was done on october 3 and 4, 2012. I don't see any mention of an xp bonus in the server motd back then.

Besides, the scaling bonus at 45 should be ~10%. Don't think blue has EVER had such a small bonus for an event or holiday or whatever, anyways.

[Potus]

Once you hit about 30 on Red you can't notice any exp bonus anymore.

[Infectious]

Troll sk... Was. It aint shit til 50. 50 plus no one will group with you like that 70% penalty is aids. Talked to guy doin nobles and bards in hhk at 54. He was gettin 1% an hour.. At 54.(iksar sk)

[Potus]

Troll sk... Was. It aint shit til 50. 50 plus no one will group with you like that 70% penalty is aids. Talked to guy doin nobles and bards in hhk at 54. He was gettin 1% an hour.. At 54.(iksar sk)

Lol that's so fucking awful. HHK has an insane ZEM as well.

Glad we're keeping all the bad things about EQ classic, even things the Developers admit was a huge mistake.

[freez]

1% an hour lol o man

[Vayder]

Troll sk... Was. It aint shit til 50. 50 plus no one will group with you like that 70% penalty is aids. Talked to guy doin nobles and bards in hhk at 54. He was gettin 1% an hour.. At 54.(iksar sk)

Sounds right. It was 10% an hour with no exp mod there at 53. So 5% in hell at 54 and with the exp penalty should expect about 1-1.5% per hour.

[Tecmos Deception]

Quit derailing my legit bug thread! Earning under 1 million xp in an hour on a 54 SK is obviously user error or someone trolling you.

[Alecta]

At first glance, everything looks like it's in order. Will have to dig into it more.

Were you grouped or solo?

[Tecmos Deception]

At first glance, everything looks like it's in order. Will have to dig into it more.

Were you grouped or solo?

Solo both times, breaking charms and nuking down the two goblins to finish them off. I don't know if killing one or the other first makes a difference at that point; I didn't pay attention to whether I killed the ex-pet first or not.

I mean, I can't say for sure the scaling XP bonus was the problem. Bloodgills already seem screwy, since I remember testing the ZEM of LOIO with a level 1 iksar killing level 1 mobs by cabilis and seeing the ZEM was 75 (assuming the xp formula and such on the wiki is actually correct). But a ZEM of 75 means it should have taken me ~180 goblins to get through 45 (again, assuming the wiki's xp info is correct) without any xp bonus... and it only took 125 on blue and 130ish on red. Just saw this inconsistency that seemed significant enough that it almost certainly wasn't just RNG with what level goblins I killed over the course of all of 45 or something.