Duration of Shared Grp XP Penalties
 

I know that everyone in a group gets less XP when the group is full of hybrids etc, due to their XP penalties. The question is at what point does that go away? Will it ever go away on this server?

I am pretty much parking my characters, becuase as it stands grouping over soloing just isn't worth it with the current rules.

Race penalties are here to stay. Class penalties will probably go away sometime after Velious.

So the groups will always share XP race/class penalties on this server?

Ok, well that is what I wanted to know. Thanks!

Class no, race yes. At least thats what I've gathered.

Well either way, if the changes linger until Velious that still ends up being years am I right?

the race and class xp penalties aren't that bad for groups and dont really slow you down that much. What makes your xp awful is having people not around your level in your group.

I believe this is still open for discussion. There are two issues here...

1 - The class/race penalties should stay in, and will stay in. That's classic and was by design.

2 - That the class/race penalties affected a GROUP's xp gain was an acknowledged bug back in the Verant days (once they fixed it anyway). There is a thread here somewhere discussing this in more detail. Since it was a BUG, it should get fixed here too.

Can someone (nilbog? aeol?) step in and comment? I'd hate for our beloved ugly Trolls (and others with xp penalties) to start disappearing from our server! :(

I had fully planned on playing a hybrid until I read about those group penalties recently. I'm sticking to "normal" classes instead.

This seems to be a hot issue...

I for one, have shelved my hybrids and sticking with a warrior for now because of the prejudice towards hybrids.

Not sure if all this discussion will do anything though, it seems that the dev's want to keep it how it was.