Not sure if anybody has the time to explain but I had an understanding (at least I thought) that XP penalties were a penalty to the characters total XP needed to earn a level. I have been using the XP google sheet on the wiki game mechanics page for years now and have done alot of testing with it and it's like 95% accurate. I am expanding it for classic era so the class mods and race mods are working correctly and was working on a group calculator as well just for fun but after reading this post I am a little confused. How does the XP Penalty effect anybody except the person with the penalty? Can anybody elaborate?
For example though -- I used the chart to figure out how many bloodgills my iksar necro had to kill last year from lvl 40 to 44 and every level was within 5 bloodgills accurate based on the Iksar penalty and the Lake of Ill Omen ZEM (which made me believe in the wiki ZEM values even more) Obviously the formula is simple with soloing mobs.
Edit: I think I figured it out after thinking through it for a second. Since a 20 SK has so much more total XP needed to earn than another lvl 20 (For example Druid) that when they duo together the SK gets a shit ton more of the cut of XP to compensate for the penalty?
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