Exp bonus is a joke

[JayDee]

I appreciate the thought, but this experience was too outrageous. I have heard of people grinding out 1-50 in a day.

I don't know if the GMs miscalculated the bonus or what but I got on my level 30 char to test it out and i flew through that level in a blink of an eye.

Too late to go back now but you guys at the helm may want to reconsider this next time you think it's a good idea imo.

/em equips flame retardant suit

[Deemo]

Its seems to be there idea off fun

Why argue about it? Someone always has to try and stop people from having fun...I vote for double exp till Sunday..


Blue Collar Worker.

[YendorLootmonkey]

I don't know if the GMs miscalculated the bonus or what but I got on my level 30 char to test it out and i flew through that level in a blink of an eye.

Approximated re-enactment:

Jaydee tells the group, "Fuck, this double XP bonus is bullshit!!"
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Jaydee tells the group, "I just got half a blue in 30 from that kill!"
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Jaydee tells the group, "Goddamn, only been three hours and I'm halfway through this hell level, this fuckin blows!"
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Jaydee tells the group, "Fuck this. One more yellow bub til 31. Pull more mobs, this is retarded."
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Jaydee tells the group, "DING 31! FUCK. Un-fucking-believable. I need a buffer, keep pulling."
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Jaydee tells the group, "All right, this is stupid. Going to the forums to post.... AFK. Feel free to keep killing though, will BRB."

[Nocte]

I have heard of people grinding out 1-50 in a day.

I have heard of pigs flying out of my asshole, but it hasn't happened yet. Just because someone's bragging, doesn't make it so.

[madara]

There is always those that play too much. I think this is win win. Kunark isn't out, school is starting as summer ends.
This was in regards to a rollback but the timing was perfect to energize the server.

[azeth]

I have heard of people grinding out 1-50 in a day.


impossible.

We are PLing Azeth (rogue 10% bonus but barb -5%) using the mage pet method so he's getting solo exp on mobs that range from 15 levels higher to dark blue. It is impossible, no matter who is PLing who to grind 1-50 in a day even with double exp on this server.

[Nightblade]

Not...entirely. I mean, if you had someone being extraordinarily nice to you, then it's not so far fetched. Earlier on, I had someone in the guild tell off about how they were getting about 10% per kill on red mobs because a monk was beating the piss out of stuff, then dropping for his killshot.

While I think that 1-50 in a day is a bit of an outlandish claim, 1-50 in the span of this exp bonus isn't that far out in my mind.

[azeth]

No that's what I'm telling you. Your friend who was getting the "10% exp per kill" is Azeth and that's a wild underestimation between levels 1-30. He was actually getting about 25% exp. 30-50 cannot be done in this time frame.

I would say the shortest possible amount of time to PL someone to 50 using any available method would be about 40-50 hours.

While I think that 1-50 in a day is a bit of an outlandish claim, 1-50 in the span of this exp bonus isn't that far out in my mind.


agree. Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun almost all day every day you could do it.

[Yinaltin]

mate got 8 blue per kill in lvl 22 up to lv 27 where he is now . doing fd pling . but 1 to 50 is more myth then truth . for sure !

[Messianic]

I once heard a level 5 rogue soloed Trak - OMG NERF ROGUES, ROGUES ARE OUTRAGEOUS

[Troy]

8 blue per kill? Even half that is insane. WTB monk PL lol

[Cogwell]

I appreciate the thought, but this experience was too outrageous. I have heard of people grinding out 1-50 in a day.

I don't know if the GMs miscalculated the bonus or what but I got on my level 30 char to test it out and i flew through that level in a blink of an eye.

Too late to go back now but you guys at the helm may want to reconsider this next time you think it's a good idea imo.

/em equips flame retardant suit

heard of

[Threepoint]

I logged in today to get some bonus in and I was pretty surprised to hear an old acquaintance of mine (who shall go unnamed because I don't know if he wants me to reference him) was claiming he leveled from about 16 to 46 today.

Don't kill the messenger (as if you could amirite) :p

[Messianic]

I logged in today to get some bonus in and I was pretty surprised to hear an old acquaintance of mine (who shall go unnamed because I don't know if he wants me to reference him) was claiming he leveled from about 16 to 46 today.

Don't kill the messenger (as if you could amirite) :p

As a twinked monk in LAke of Ill Omen, I went from 22-30 in about 9 hours. Honestly, i wouldn't be shocked if someone played 16-30 hours straight (with a few force multipliers, i.e. access to haste, very good groups in Sol A, etc) and managed to level that much.

But quite honestly, unless you give me exact facts and parameters around how, where, when, and with what gear he did that, i'm inclined to believe there is some exaggeration involved.

[Loquan]

I work fulltime, and play a few hours in the night before I have to go to sleep and roll out and do it again. I personally enjoyed being able to get a little extra push. No matter what you impliment when it comes to things like this, somebody will always find a way to take advantage of it, and I would too if I could of more! I went from level 23-26 in that time period, soloing. Woopty doo, I DONT think this broke the server. Why do people insist on crying about everything? Just play the damn game!

[Messianic]

I work fulltime, and play a few hours in the night before I have to go to sleep and roll out and do it again. I personally enjoyed being able to get a little extra push. No matter what you impliment when it comes to things like this, somebody will always find a way to take advantage of it, and I would too if I could of more! I went from level 23-26 in that time period, soloing. Woopty doo, I DONT think this broke the server. Why do people insist on crying about everything? Just play the damn game!

YOU'RE RUINING EVERQUEST

[sidgb]

Yes, 1-50 in 24 hours with double exp was very possible with the help of a couple of monks to chain pull after dropping health of mobs to under 5%. Get the right kind of mobs and support classes it would actually be quite easy.

Not like other times when was really hard and would take 2 days.

:)

[azeth]

Yes, 1-50 in 24 hours with double exp was very possible with the help of a couple of monks to chain pull after dropping health of mobs to under 5%. Get the right kind of mobs and support classes it would actually be quite easy.

Not like other times when was really hard and would take 2 days.

:)

I concede to this point that perhaps 1-50 with double exp is possible using this method. I do however want to point out that with ONE monk this is impossible. Therefore you'd need at least 2-3 Monks to do this, and truthfully if 4 people want to spend 24 hours power leveling - god love them.

[sidgb]

I can safely say that a lot of people got some serious PLing from friends over the last two days. Some staying up all night to do it. 20-30 levels was very common. Yes, the 50 levels was probably rare.

[kenzar]

I PL'd my roomies monk alt from 1-20 the 1st night (logged on kinda late) and 20 - 45 yesterday in about 8hrs. that being said i think 1-50 would be boring as hell but probable given 15-20 hrs of having uncontested spawns. still having a 45 monk with <1 day playing time is retarded.

[RussMac316]

Gotta remember who you're dealing with here, too. I feel like only the hardcore old-schoolers would even seek out this server...so give us double exp...forget it!

[Uaellaen]

on live we PLed a chanter form 1 -46 in 8h with kunark raid gear, cleric + mage PLing .. i guess if the zones are empty (lol not here :P) it may be possible

[guineapig]

I remember When LoY was released the top guild on our server PL'd a froglok cleric to 65 in 3 days... did I mention with his epic?

Can't recall for certain which class, probably cleric (which is an easy epic) but still!

Pretty sure they just shared the account around the clock.

[Omnimorph]

Live is stupid for PLing. I got a toon 1 - 65 in under 2 hours. Almost spent more time running from zone to zone than i did levelling him.

I do think that double exp might have been a bit over the top though, maybe 50% increase for a day, and then 25% for the weekend.

[azeth]

cant complain considering im utilizing the exp bonus, but i thought it might look something like:

Midnight Friday -> Midnight Saturday double exp.
end.

[HippoNipple]

double exp actually hurt my exp gaining - I only get to play like 2 hours a night. First night I went around to hill giants, fully camped, then spectres near pof, camped, went to kill ogre guards and they were camped, went to oasis for the spectres and they were camped. Finally I decided to try to kill the goblins under the water. They looked far enough away to single pull, pulled 2 and they are yellow con, try to fd and they cast a spell, rooted, died, rage quit for the night.

Next night I check the spectres, camped, decide to find a port to BB, kill some dwarfs which are good exp because they are yellow.... but all of the good spots were taken so I settle for a single spawn. I dont know the exact timer but I'm sitting there at 100% mana/hp for way too long, and they are yellow.

So I tried to see what Unrest was like, basement fully camped, go back to BB, see there is a double yellow dwarf pull, died because I tried to kill two at once isntead of being patient and pulling by themselves with fd pulling... rage quit. Lol double exp blows it was way to crowded!!

[Raavak]

How about some exp bonus on Labor Day weekend? Pretty please?

[Elissa]

Yes, 1-50 in 24 hours with double exp was very possible with the help of a couple of monks to chain pull after dropping health of mobs to under 5%. Get the right kind of mobs and support classes it would actually be quite easy.

Not like other times when was really hard and would take 2 days.

:)

This point should not be ignored. Whatever someone allegedly did "in 1 day" could be done any other time in a whopping TWO days. Hardly game breaking here.

[XeldiablosX]

Talk about crowded should of seen all the fighting in HHK last night swear to god there was at LEAST 1 person PER guard in there... killing the guards. It was a godawful mess lol

[Braveguard]

I just don't understand the power leveling mindset (or character purchases for that matter). If all you want to do is start at the top, why play. *shrug* To each his own, I guess.

[Tallenn]

What I've experienced, is that it's made 40 a bit less of a hell level. I logged on the other morning to kill a single spawn HG- I got about 10% in about an hour.

Ultimately, for me at least, this few days worth of double experience is going to have almost ZERO effect on the time it takes to level my druid to 50- it may account for 1/100th of 1 percent of the total experience I gain over the life of the character.

So, keep it through the weekend, stop it right now, or something in between, really makes no difference to me.

[Dantes]

Everybody knew that powerlevelers would take advantage of the exp bonus. Powerleveling is ridiculously fast anyway, x2 it's even more so. At a regular pace, being able to play twice in the evening after work I gained 2 levels in HHK. Seemed to level at exactly twice the rate because I normally gain half a level in an evening, so I don't think they fucked up the math. When I dinged 30, I was actually straining hard to see if the blue bar moved at all after a kill.

I'll just be happy to see it gone because things will return to normal. The "frenzied" every man for himself environment will go away, people will start hanging out and goofing off again.

[OngorDrakan]

Don't worry, I was sure to kill some exp from my groups this week. Humans Monks FTW!

[Messianic]

Don't worry, I was sure to kill some exp from my groups this week. Humans Monks FTW!

I had a human monk in classic, i'm waiting to go iksar =)

[eqdruid76]

THIS....IS....CLASSSSSSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /kick


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[Messianic]

THIS....IS....CLASSSSSSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /kick


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Is that a word play on the fact that you now have 300 posts?

[toddfx]

THIS....IS....CLASSSSSSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /kick


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Shoulda' exaggerated the I not the S.

[internalprime8]

He's a snake.

[azeth]

http://uploadpic.org/storage/originals/thumb_ff2ndkjssfn22jjseu2rdnrnf3.jpg

[feste]

azeth that picture is horrible lol

[Dantes]

This is classic.

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[Toony]

This is classic.

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But mine

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[YendorLootmonkey]

Actual size, eh?

[Dantes]

No, I'm hung like a horse....fly.

[azeth]

Actual size, eh?

oh.. so if for instance a friend's was actually that size.. is that weird.. or normal or ? for a friend.

[Tamika]

I appreciated the double xp, lost some xp from the rollback and it was nice to get it back. And some.

[JayDee]

I concede to this point that perhaps 1-50 with double exp is possible

Well atleast you admit to being dumb.

[JayDee]

I PL'd my roomies monk alt from 1-20 the 1st night (logged on kinda late) and 20 - 45 yesterday in about 8hrs.

I've heard about the same for others. Infact, in a shorter timespan. Consensus is that it takes 5-8 hours to do 20-45 or so if you know what you are doing.

That is just stupid imo.

[guineapig]

I've heard about the same for others. Infact, in a shorter timespan. Consensus is that it takes 5-8 hours to do 20-45 or so if you know what you are doing.

That is just stupid imo.

Agreed.

Considering the population on this server which leads to mobs to kill being contested by multiple groups per sone (who are killing fast mind you), and the fact that it's nearly impossibly to PL on nothing but red cons once you're around 40 (not at any rate even close to what is required) I call BS on getting from 20 to 45 in 8 hours.

3 hell levels and 300-800 people playing on average completely negates this possibility. The highest level mobs in the game (outside the planes) are on 20 minute timers on average and are relegated to LGuk and SolB, where the majority of upper level groups are also found. Fire and Ice Giants are of course a higher level but most of those are on a 8 or 12 hour respawn cycle. If the server was nearly empty then maybe with double exp this swould be conceivable, but not now.

[Elissa]

I've heard about the same for others. Infact, in a shorter timespan. Consensus is that it takes 5-8 hours to do 20-45 or so if you know what you are doing.

That is just stupid imo.

Double experience means that it would be possible under normal conditions in 10-16 hours. Oh noes!!!!

Edit: And okay, lets assume there is some greater allowance for missing spawns, losing them to other groups, etc. with less exp per kill. Add 4 hours. 14-20 to go from 20-45? Are you really saying THAT is okay? I think your bigger problem is with powerleveling.

[guineapig]

I would be curious to see how long it would take to PL a halfling rogue (biggest exp bonus in game) with double exp days from 34-46 on say the mobs near Freeti. The rest of the group would have to be hyper optimized of course with zero downtime for deaths, etc. I wouldn't want to do it myself, just know the outcome.

[YendorLootmonkey]

oh.. so if for instance a friend's was actually that size.. is that weird.. or normal or ? for a friend.

Depends on the resolution of your monitor, I suppose. If you're viewing this web page at 320x200, I suppose that actual size that would be respectable except for the fact that you own such a shitty-ass graphics card/monitor.

[Darkcore]

In sola at lvl 42 my friend was getting a blue a kill on the gnomes. (as long as they were blue and not light blue). If you got plvl'd in the exp bonus zones like CB, upper guk, and then sola I could see getting 44 in one day. And if you could some how find a exp bonus for 44-50 im sure you could do 1-50 in one day. Really the only thing stopping someone from going 1-50 is the lack of mobs in the 44-50 range.

[Tudana]

I appreciate the thought, but this experience was too outrageous. I have heard of people grinding out 1-50 in a day.

These "people" are laughing at you right now I'm sure

[Dac321]

Lol who cares people got to 50 in a day. That doesn't effect you in anway. Let people enjoy it at the pace they want to play.

In a sense, logically with double experience if a character could get from 1-50 in 1 day.. Whats stopping them doing it in 2? Its just double the time, right? Are we gonna complain about that too?

[abbadox]

impossible.

We are PLing Azeth (rogue 10% bonus but barb -5%) using the mage pet method so he's getting solo exp on mobs that range from 15 levels higher to dark blue. It is impossible, no matter who is PLing who to grind 1-50 in a day even with double exp on this server.

I did the necro FD PL for my sons toon over the week with the DBL exp. We only got him 10 levels. I think it would have went much faster if we had a DS and chanter for our mana regen.

Perhaps getting from 1 to 50 in a day takes more than just 2 players?

[azxten]

You could PL someone from 1-50 in a day easily even without double exp. All it would take is a couple groups doing the PLing. AE group burning down an entire zone and leaving one player to hold aggro who doesn't do any damage after they zone then person being PLd finishes them. This could be done by damaging them all once and letting DS finish after they've all been hit, using AEs if they have them, etc.

I mean come on.. it's double exp.. it's not 10x exp. Everything just goes twice as fast.

[Serith]

Your mother.

[azxten]

Your mother.

Pathetic human spotted.

[Sigmastorm]

OH MY GOD, MOAR LEVEL 50s FASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS SERVER IS GONNA BE A SHITHOLE AGAIN, ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMG!:!:!!==!=!=

[Taluvill]

to PL someone 1-50 in a day, most of your time would have to be in Kedge. That exp bonus is rediculous.

2 friends of mine, one who was quite established on this server and his friend who was just starting did a troll shaman to 50 in a little under 5 days, but the /played time was something stupid, like 2.5 days or something. Most of it was time spent in kedge keep, that first room is insane experience, and if you know what your doing in that zone, its a great place to PL people.

[Taluvill]

and truthfully if 4 people want to spend 24 hours power leveling - god love them.

I wont even spend one lol. 24 hours would be insane. What my friends did in my last post was insane.

Just a side note - Powerleveling has to be the most boring way to do anything --> Level, Make Money, Play EQ, Etc.