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I'm a two-handed swordsman on Corellia based in Tyrena.

Today i went for the first time on a bigger group hunt since beta and i was looking forward and hoping to find some Sharnaffs, because they used to be the most fun to fight in Beta: Tough to fight and paying out most xp.

Eventually we bumped into some and soon i had to realize that something seems to have changed since beta :

After the first Sharnaff went down i got 190 xp or so. We killed some more and the max i got paid out was 200 xp.

I am well aware that xp payout has been reduced since beta, yet i've heard each time a Sharnaff went down the usual "Ooooooh"s and "woohoo"s from the other members in the group because they got those great payouts i also was used to get.

Ok.....so i told myself that maybe i was doing something wrong.....so i changed tactics:

I switched from tanking to defending from second row....i tried single hits....my macros....simple berserk attack....nothing helped...

Then i thought: ok....we are a group of 10 and 9 out of those ten but me used their guns on them...so i thought maybe its because they get to shoot more often than i get to hit because usually the brawlers get incapped first in a tanking situation if not healed regularyand i thought maybe its also because the group was simply too big to pay out more. But later on the group was reduced to 5 people and my payout was still around 200xp.

To conclude:

Out of approx. 10 Sharnaffs killed, i got slained 3 times and incapped 9 times because i was the only melee, the majority of the group got mostly out with minor wounds and grand xp each time. The max i got paid out was between 200-300 xp, which isnt much because this very morning i got 600-900 xp for giant spats kills.

Seeing that, i'm getting worried thinking about my first trip to Endor.

So...what do you think of all this, fellow swordsmen ? Bug or design ? Any hints, tipsor tricks ?

Bug, devs are working on it. Hold off that trip to Endor until it's fixed. I went there with my PA expecting a great time and great exp like in beta, instead what I found was that even the really tough mobs only gave about 500 exp max, and that was for me and I was getting the most exp out of almost everyone, alot of the ranged users were getting 150 exp from the tough mobs on Endor.

it is quite annoying, considering the melee(er)s take all the damage and get only a fraction of the XP

plus (ya i've said it before) the bullsh1t we're getting from the weapon makers who have made zero-effort to make 2H weapons, bastards

Tell me about it... you can find Pistols up the ying-yang, but a vibroaxe... impossible.

Just took a minute to get out of the game to update, share, warn you, my fellow sufferers, in this dark corner of the forums with my recent experience :

Planet: Talus

Target: Those huge dinosaur like thingies (sorry cant remember their names)

Group: Think we were 8

Number/Profession: 7 / Ranged, 1 / melee

Average hitpoints/ Profession: 150 / Ranged, 400 /melee (i could live with less if there wouldnt be...

General background tenor afterXP distribution/ Profession: "oooo""woot""woohoo" / Ranged,

*sniff*(90XP)/melee

Best experience on trip: Finishing off some giant spiders

Sadest experience on trip: Being called stupid for getting so close to target and being incapped more in average than other members of group (...and sorry no.../lunge /lunge /lunge /lunge is simply no fun for me)

Best wishes and good continuation