Experience Irregularity?
 

So I'm a 53 wood elf ranger duoing with my brother's 55 dark elf enchanter in teh Burned Woods, fear-kiting things around with a charm pet and just generally massacring the zone.

Everything was going fine today until my brother started getting upset about his slow experience, at which point we began tracking it closely. We assumed it was just because I was a ranger and my penalty was brutalizing his xp gain, but everything I can find tells me our experience pools are roughly the same size, and we are both supposed to gain roughly the same amount of experience per kill (as a proportion of our pools):

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We tracked our experience at various points. For every blue I (53 ranger) gained, my brother (55 enchanter) gained only half a blue. This happened consistently throughout our entire session today. My experience was pretty good, his was terrible.

I was under the impression that experience in a group was shared such that every member advanced at the same rate. Am I fundamentally misunderstanding the way the exp system works in this game? Are the equations in these various EXP-share calculators inaccurate?

This seems strange.

What level were the mobs you were fighting? Perhaps they were within five levels of you so his xp was being halved but yours wasn't? I thought the 'within five levels non penalty' was applied to the whole group though...

I thought you were about to pitch a fiber supplement.

54+ XP does slow down a lot, I can only assume its that... or that P99 end game XP isn't truly classic.

lol

Isn't level 55 considered a "Hell Level"? Where it takes almost twice as much exp as someone on a non-hell level.

it's 54 AND 59

51 also but it's hardly noticable

To put things into perspective for you:

Halfway from level 1 to 60 in terms of experience = 54.5

Your brother is just experiencing the slowdown that occurs for every class 54+

54 onwards is just slow and gets worse til 60 :/

folk who exp in a low zem zone deserve slow exp rates <mr spock>