Actually that does bring back memories for me ( yeah, like 31 was SO long
ago :-) )...
I died 5 times in my last bubble of 31 because I was getting WAY to
aggressive in trying to get that last damn half bubble. Every time I only
lost about a half bubble. I certainly never lost a full bubble. Never once
did I drop to having more then a little over a bubble to go. I finally just
decided to ignore the XP bar all together and went to my tried and true
comfortable home of Sol A and just camped the Efreeti and EXG to get a
charred guardian shield and platinum armband for my brother's druid. I
dinged in no time after that :-). God that last bubble took forever... I
never want to do that again.
Taneran Dreamweaver
<Clan Jax>
Bard of the 35th song
Prexus
----- Original Message -----
From: James Schuldes <jgs@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:27 AM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Question about experience penalty (OT)
> From: James Schuldes <jgs@...>
>
> I concur with your findings - hell levels tend to insulate you from death
> penalties and getting killed by a red is less xp loss than dying to a blue
> or green.
>
> FWIW: got sucked into a Paladin's quest last nite. Go to Erud's Crossing
> and kill some damn fish. Ok, quest fishie hangs out with Killer Shark's -
> ugh. Playing a just 27 wiz, I killed the Plague Shark by chain casting my
> big nuke but agro'd the Killer who snarfed me. Got snarfed 2 times and
lost
> a half of a bub and then some (lost my level too.) P.o.'d, I camped him
to
> get Sylly (40 bardette) and brought her over for CR and what have you.
> Somehow she managed to get killed too but thankfully showed _very_ minimal
> XP loss. This is due I do believe to both being in a Hell level _and_ by
> getting killed by a red (I was told Killer Sharks are 45 mobs - and if
they
> are how come the Planes players don't camp em for rebuilding xp? Ya, ya
> fighting underwater is hard.)
>
> So, while it's hard to gain XP in a Hell Level - it seems that each time
you
> are killed - there is less loss than in other levels. FYI - I have heard
> that the Hell plus One levels are one-bub death penaltys for each time you
> die - maybe only 46? Or 41 and 46? I don't remember 31 nor 36 to be
> particularily bard - well, 31 was cuz I wanted 32 so badly.
>
> Sylly
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4
> [mailto:g4mntofcr@...]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 1:27 PM
> To: eqbards@onelist.com
> Subject: [eqbards] Question about experience penalty
> (OT)
>
> From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4"
> <g4mntofcr@...>
>
> Subjectively, it appears to me that the experience penalty
> for
> dying is higher when something kills you that cons
> green/blue to you versus
> something killing you that cons yellow/red. Anyone else had
> similar
> results?
>
> Galtin of E'ci
> 30 bard
>
>
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