Absolutely, Frug, if you don't get cash somehow it won't work as well. At a bit over half a plat per reagent and approx. 2/3 to 1 blue bub per kill it was the greater part of 20 pp per lvl. I leveled this char. in E.C. where HQ bear skins and silks really kept me way ahead of the game so cost was not an issue. But "cost" can be viewed in many ways, especially time (if you're me) so the trade off was well worth the pp. and with a erudite mage, gear wasn't an issue either - he kicks ass naked.

Malachite are 5 silver. That's what a decaying skeleton drops.

It takes 2 bone chips per skeleton pet. Bone Chips go, on average, for 10pp a stack. A stack has 20, which means 10 skeletons. So 1pp per skeleton. It is significantly more than a Malachite per pet sacrificed for a Necromancer. This still isn't much to a high level character, or a twink, but if you're a new player pinching pennies, you're losing out.

Sure, you can farm them yourself, but you're still losing the potential 1pp per skeleton per kill.

I'll do this test again to include the criteria mentioned earlier, and include some duo results if possible. If anyone wants to spare 20min, we can do the duo aspect with new necrosis in field of bone.

I purposefully left out that mentioned scenario because I believed the mechanic around groups and pet damage had been established.

In the name of !SCIENCE!

Just did a parse of my old log files. In no case did any of my decaying skeleton kills drop more than 1 silver, 9 copper.

I get your point, but using hyperbole to make it isn't necessary.

Actually, if you count all the vendor items, cracked staff, rusty weapons, cloth armor, bone chips it probably works out to much more than 5 silver each...That vendor you buy the malachite from purchases these items too!

That's a fair point.

Is 20 in 3 weeks actually a good time? I did 1-12 in one night (6 hours) then 12-20 in another night (6 hours) by just making sure I grouped at places that had turn-in items for bonus xp.

I assume this exp nerf doesnt affect shm, as they cant equip pets with gear.?