Experience Irregularity?

[Ephirith]

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?

[Jimjam]

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...

[quido]

I thought you were about to pitch a fiber supplement.

[khanable]

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I thought you were about to pitch a fiber supplement.

lol

[fastboy21]

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I thought you were about to pitch a fiber supplement.

kekeke

[Messianic]

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I thought you were about to pitch a fiber supplement.

[Clark]

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I thought you were about to pitch a fiber supplement.

Lol

[Clark]

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[Swish]

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

[Kristian]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

To go from 55 to 56 for an enchanter (10% penalty) requires 36,925,240 xp, ending with 366,025,000 total xp.

To go from 53 to 54 as a ranger (40% penalty) requires 36,394,820 xp, ending with 354,327,260 total xp.

This is with the 50-60 level multipliers taken into account. Given the numbers and the idea that xp distribution is based off the total xp of the players involved, it seems they should both be sharing xp and leveling at approximately the same rate (~3% difference). Can anyone figure out why the ranger would be getting 2x the xp the enchanter is getting?