> >This is my post on the EQvaults forums, thought maybe th ebard

community

> >would want to see my figures.
> >
> >Yea its not really that big of a difference. Your shadowknight is

not about

> >to start leveling 40% faster. (Unless you solo all the time).

Some quick

> >(and probably not all that accurate) math:
>
> this is exactly correct. who are the people who benefit the most

from this change?

> the people with the lower exp penalty (or exp bonus) who were

shouldering part

> of the load of the higher exp penalty from some other classes. so

that halfling

> warrior your bard groups with will have a much bigger benefit than

your bard, but

> both will still benefit.

And at the risk of stating the obvious, that is exactly the point.
Some people (not necessarily on this list, but on the boards) seem to
be under the erroneous assumption that this is a fix for the Hybrid
EXP penalty. It's not. It's a fix for the horribly broken EXP
system we've been playing under. It benefits everybody. Arguably,
the biggest boost for Hybrids is not the extra EXP they will attain
with each kill, but the fact that they'll have a MUCH easier time
finding EXP groups now that the group doesn't share their penalty.
THAT, imo, was the biggest injustice of them all. Many Hybrids would
have been willing to shoulder the whole load of their exp penalties,
because THEY chose it, and not burden the group with it. Now, they
don't have to.. plus, they get a nice EXP bonus to go with it.