made it up to the double digits. got myself a boney friend and some basic equipment. so far im enjoying it. its definitely slow but im not in a rush

Wow! I'm struggling with whether I want to continue on my ranger because of the 40 percent penalty. Good for you.

By the way whatever to Chortles? Did the grind drive him over the edge?

If there's any justice. Best I ever did was ignore that one.

i was suspended on Chortles with trumped up charges on day 2 after launch
started my CLR alt and made similar XP progress in 4 hrs
no longer have the red launch SK naïveté
the 68% XP penalty is real

What kind of nonsense is this? Do you even know how math works? It's a 68% penalty, not 5000%. In groups the penalty is even less severe. It'll take the hybrid a month or two longer to hit 60, maybe even just a couple of weeks if you have an easy time getting groups. It's this kind of idiotic bullshit that makes people think they need to decline hybrids for groups. Realistically speaking, a tank with snap aggro will bring no reduction in XP/hour over a warrior tank who struggles with aggro and people have to wait for procs before engaging.

Don't die, the xp loss and the time required to regain it is soul destroying

I'm 25 as a delf SK, longest I've waited for a group is about 40 minutes. Stcik to Befallen and Guk and you won't even notice the xp penalties because the zem is so absurdly broken.

What ever happened to that one guy that was advertising a marathon group at server start made up mostly of mages? Never heard how they did.

Yeah most of the time you can just ignore his comments lol

Not just that, but if you're grouping then your experience is being averaged out. The experience penalty mostly affects solo, then it'll affect the individual to a lesser extent for each person added beyond himself. In a full group it's no big deal, as you've noticed.

I made 60 on my human Shadow Knight while P1999 was in Kunark. Could've made it on a troll too, just would've taken longer. Skorge's comment might apply to him specifically, but trying to apply that mantra to everyone rapidly becomes absurd.

Danth