Do you like hybrids having an xp penalty?

[Fammaden]

Don't care.

[Znakebite]

I really want to play a Troll SK though. . . maybe, just maybe I don't care.

[Jibartik]

IMO everyone should get a 1000% exp penalty equally.

But I think its really dumb that the EXP penalty is applied to other players when grouping even if its just a small percentage.

If I want to take on the challenge, great! But Dont make me force that challenge on everyone I want to group with. It just gives greedy people a reason to be greedy about inviting other players to their creature killing IMO.

[BlackBellamy]

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

hybrids and certain classes were more powerful, but in practice that turned out not to be the case.

This is why I don't discriminate against hybrid people or any other xpenalized. It's not like they're getting this real powerful avatar at everyone's expense - they're just trying to play a class they like.

[Fammaden]

Is it even confirmed that the penalty is in? I know more importantly no one's said its out, so we can safely assume. But still, I haven't seen official mention of it either way.

[Wenai]

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

Is it even confirmed that the penalty is in? I know more importantly no one's said its out, so we can safely assume. But still, I haven't seen official mention of it either way.

It is part of classic. It was part of Blue launch. It is virtually 100% guaranteed to be in.

[shuklak]

If green doesn't have exp penalties and bonuses then it's just not classic.

Who cares if the devs thought it was a bad choice. That's like saying going to Vietnam was a bad choice. But we dont rewrite the history books.

[Gustoo]

Classic is going to be classic I'm cringing so hard at the thought of someone thinking their gunna unclassic the hybrid penalty.

Also cringing hard at that 5 percent slowing you down to level 50 then to 60. It's classic man literally your 20 years late to level 50 who cares how long it takes your toon???

[Gustoo]

Please move to resolved I will delete all my manastones if there was even a 1 percent chance that staff would intensionally not have classic exp build out.

Oh they should move halfling bonus to humans like was originally intended too.

[DMN]

I'm pretty torn on the subject. i like the purist idea of trying best to recreate what was, but at the same time "what was" was actually a complete ignorance of the hybrid exp penalties and their effects on party exp. if they existed, no one actually knew, so it never really impact their perceptions or playstyle. It was only awhile after showEQ popped up that people started looking so deeply at the code and such and realized the penalty was shared with the party. For the life of me I can't recall how much time elapsed between between hybrids being exp pariahs after showEQ outed them and verant/sony actually ameliorating the issue.

in any event, I think i lean towards the exp penalty existing but having no influence on party exp rate. This both contradicts "how it was" and "what eventually happened", unfortunately.