Pet xp penalty still?

[astronaut]

Yeah pretty sure it's completely unclassic. But the dev crew loves unclassic pet changes more than classic ones.

[Nuggie]

Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It got added because of AFK necros farming exp with the 49 pet in old world after Kunark came out. Not sure when they removed it but I don't remember it being an issue with my Beastlord in Luclin.

I believe nilbog added it because those dirty mages were afk exping at gornit in oot during vanilla.

also, it will never go away. other than the hybrid thing

[Pyrion]

If it's there to combat afk XPing why not make it so that the pet master has to do lets say at least 10% of the damage? You could even award zero xp if thats not the case, problem solved. This way anybody could still use their favourite tactic and AFKers would not get half, but zero xp.

[astronaut]

Even 1% damage would make sense.

[dafier]

Just out of curiousity, has any mage leveling from 1 to 49 ever parsed fire pet damage that includes the DS?

I am curious on how much that DS does.

Example:

50% pet dmg cuts your xp in half. If pet DS does an average of 25% damage throughout the entire fight, that means you only need to beat that other 25% dmg it's actually doing.

[Man0warr]

DS damage is global, doesn't get attributed to the PC or pet afaik. That's how it works with Druid PLing at least.

[Daldaen]

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

Just out of curiousity, has any mage leveling from 1 to 49 ever parsed fire pet damage that includes the DS?

I am curious on how much that DS does.

Example:

50% pet dmg cuts your xp in half. If pet DS does an average of 25% damage throughout the entire fight, that means you only need to beat that other 25% dmg it's actually doing.

Well no.

If your pets DS did 25%, that means of the remaining 75% you would need to do 37.5% to beat your pet's 37.5%.

If your pets DS did 50%, that means of the remaining 50% you would need to do 25% percent to beat your pet's 25%.

[dafier]

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

Well no.

If your pets DS did 25%, that means of the remaining 75% you would need to do 37.5% to beat your pet's 37.5%.

If your pets DS did 50%, that means of the remaining 50% you would need to do 25% percent to beat your pet's 25%.

Thanks Tofu!

Thanks for the correction. I wasn't thinking remainder.