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Thread: Can y'all comment please.....

Starscream
Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:41 am
#14
Yuo were told the same thing in the main post amx, you even quoted it.

SOLO xp hasnt been changed.

GROUP xp has been screwed.

thats why everyones mad. the whole point of the CU was to force us to group now we take a HUGE

xp hit to group, thus leaving it so that any low dps professions are going to

have a hard time finding a group as they will slow down the killing and thus the xp gain for the group.



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TalKurgan
Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:34 am
#15

The problem is that with, say, one other person, you'd split the xp. Also, with one other person, there (probably) wouldn't be that many more bols, so each of you would only pull in 15k/1.5k xp.


My question would be, is the number of people killing bols and the time it takes to kill the bols inversely proportional? I'm thinking no, but I could be wrong. Faster, yes, but twice as fast for two? I suppose that it depends on how you go about killing bols.


Furthermore, I would ask how the number of bols increases with the number of people in the group? If eight people in a group could kill bols eight times as fast, and there were eight times as many in the lair, then it's (roughly) a wash when compared to solo grinding. (Although nowhere near the xp fest that was grouping before this change, especially during double xp week.)


Eight-person teams can really mulch the bols, butI'm pretty sure that there aren't 16-24 bols per wave. I'd run a study, but even with a few missing boxes in my template, I'm pretty much done with bol-slaying.


So what's my point? Well, I'm at work, and I'd rather post here. But seriously, I see this as a big shift in levelling similar to the changes the CU brought (Recall that pre-CU grinding/levelling = buffs + armor + solo group - piles of savage quenkers), so I can see how some people are cheesed off.




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