Classic SOE Overnerf

[Bumamgar]

Oogmog: From your sig I see that you play an Ogre Warrior. Assuming this is your main and that your comments on the experience changes are from that perspective, I want to remind you of something.

Prior to the XP fix, Racial penalties were incorrectly being applied. Specifically, Ogre's were not experiencing a 15% penalty. In fact, they were getting a 5% bonus (ie: the halfling bonus).

This has been fixed, so all Ogres basically just got a 20% nerf to their XP (going from a 5% bonus to a 15% penalty). This was a bug that had to be addressed.

Conversely, Dwarves were getting the 20% Troll penalty and Trolls were only getting the 15% Ogre penalty. Dwarves now have no penalty (ie: a 20% boost to XP) and Trolls appropriately have the 20% penalty (ie: a 5% nerf to XP). Poor halflings were getting no bonus, but now they get a 5% bonus as they should.

The point being, as an Ogre Warrior, you just went from having the best XP combination available on p1999 to near the bottom.