68 per cent for a Troll Shadow Knight. It's the slowest possible combination in the original game.
Aside from racial penalties, the four INT casters all have a 10% penalty. Monks have a 20% penalty. Hybrids have a 40% base penalty. Class penalties multiply with racial penalties, hence that Iksar Monk has a 44% penalty (worse than a Paladin or Bard!). Group experience split is based on a character's total experience and is not split evenly. Hence a higher-level Warrior can still "suck up" more of a group's experience than a lower-level Shadow Knight would.
Unfortunately the majority of the player base is totally ignorant with respect to how the experience mechanics work, uninterested in learning, and in practice they'll simply discriminate against hybrids for the most part. That's classic too, in its own way.
Danth
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