Two party members are tag-teaming easy-decent mobs in valkurm dunes. Both have signet and are same rank, same nation, same level (27) after syncing. The 27warrior/13thf constantly earns 20% more exp per kill than the 27whm/11blm.

At one point, the whm was higher main job than the war. It has now flipped and the war is higher lvl than the whm. In both cases, the war was earning a constant 20% more per mob.

Both characters are auto-attacking the mob. Both characters do not have any event gear, event items, or furniture set up.

Can anyone please explain the reason for the difference in earned exp?

Are you sure both have signet?

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100% sure.

Maybe the sub is causing it. Interesting thing to test, can you find out by having the subs be the same level?

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Didn't think it was the cause, but its Nasomi and I'm out of ideas. Will test.

If you kill an EM (or even a DC in some situations), you set up for your next kill to become Chain #1. One thing I’ve noticed is that even if your next kill is only a decent challenge or easy prey, you still get the 20% bonus to experience. It will even extend the chain timer with the kill, allowing you to continue getting the bonus.

One of you was on a pseudo Chain #1 bonus and the other was not. the exp bonus for that is 20% and applies to EP and DC. It seems DC kills (and some EP? not sure) extend the bonus, so you could keep it going indefinitely if you kill fast enough.

You can see this most easily when soloing the early levels, you will get 108 instead of 90 on a DC, 96 instead of 80, 84 instead of 70, and so on.

I am almost certain it’s a bug in the way chains and exp are calculated on the server. But it is a bug that is in our favor.


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That sounds like a good explanation for the math. Why would one player get it, and the other not? We go through like 20-30 mobs at a time before sitting.

Does Signet give an EXP Bonus or something?

Yes, Signet was changed around WoTG to add a bonus to exp in certain situations.

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maybe you led off with a more difficult mob while your partner was not in range to get credit for the kill, giving you the bonus XP for every kill that followed, but not for them.