Wow, that's exactly the opposite of what we saw. He died when barely 31 and
was down about a quarter bubble in 30. When he died when barely 30 he
couldn't see any missing xp at 29 and one kill dinged him back to 30.

I saw a similar thing at 20th. I died with a sliver at 21st and fell back
into 20th by about a quarter bubble. Strangely, when I died with about 2
slivers into 21, and definitely less than a quarter bubble, I didn't even
lose the level. Seems that different logic mandates how much xp you lose
when you die and lose a level. Its almost like you lose xp, go down a level
and the logic says, hmmm died reduce xp a second time. I saw this several
times from 15 to 16 where dying with almost a quarter bubble into 16 dropped
me to 15, but dying at 15 barely moved the bar. Then dying at 16 with half
a bubble also showed the bar barely moving.

All very strange. Although according to the druid I mentioned's notes from
35th and 36th. He killed the exact same critters give or take their level
variance, at both 35th and 36th. You'd expect that he would kill fewer at
35th gain 36th, than at 36th to gain 37th, but it was the other way around.
And not particularly close either. From what I recall he killed almost 20%
more critters going from 35th to 36th than he did going from 36th to 37th,
and the list of kills was only different by 2 mobs I think. Have to
remember to bug him for the lists so I can look into it in more detail.

Kit

Oh, btw, you DO lose more exp in hell levels + 1. It's not
the same exp loss appearing larger because HL+1 requires less
exp. I died *immediately* after I got level 31, and lost over
a half bubble into 30. I only lost about a quarter bubble
with other deaths at 30.

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