On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Blair, Keith (Keith Blair) wrote:

>
> > My first night as level 20 and I went
> > to HighHold Keep. Got into a group with
> > others ranging to 27 with me the lowest
> > most of the time.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but with a group of people that high up in level
> (up to 7 above you), isn't it true that you'd get very little to no
> experience from the fights? I remember when I was level 5 and my friend was
> level 9 and trying to help me out, I stopped getting experience when we were
> grouped because he was 4 levels above me. I've heard that even when the

If I understand some comments by J.M. correctly, the level
spread at which you stop getting experience is actually based
on a fixed percentage of total experience (scaled to account
for certain race/classes needing more experience per level).
So the difference between level 5 and 9 is something like 80%,
but the difference between 20 and 27 is 35%.

I'm level 30, and a level 22 friend grouped with me was making
experience at about the same rate I was. Probably because
most of the stuff we were fighting that was blue to me was
yellow/red to him. So he was getting a smaller piece of the
total experience, but that total experience was huge compared
to what he would've gotten grouped with other 22s and fighting
what to them were blue.

--
John H. Kim
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