[LyonheartLakshmi]

Originally Posted by Restlesstornado

If you are soloing with a NPC(when you are at a lower lvl than you'r NPC) you will get the amount of XP a 2 person party would. If you are duoing it will treat you'r party as a 3 person party, and so on and soforth.

This doesn't sound quite right. I've never read any info indicating that your NPC would affect the exp someone else in your pt gets.

From my understanding, when you have your NPC out, you take a direct 30% cut to the exp you earn. If you are not in a party, this can work to being slightly more than what you would get in a 2 man party. If you happen to be duo'ing with someone and call out your NPC, the 30% cut actually results in less exp than if it was calculated as a 3 man party.

[Restlesstornado]

Originally Posted by LyonheartLakshmi

From my understanding, when you have your NPC out, you take a direct 30% cut to the exp you earn. If you are not in a party, this can work to being slightly more than what you would get in a 2 man party. If you happen to be duo'ing with someone and call out your NPC, the 30% cut actually results in less exp than if it was calculated as a 3 man party.

In all honesty the point I was trying to make was the fact you'r xp is cut, the more people are in your party the less xp you get. Now what you have stated is just as helpful as my information because you don't have any numbers backing up you'r 30%. Just from you'r "understanding".

Edit: I would love to see some information to show direct XP percentages you'r NPC takes. I would do the tests myself but since I am not able to play right now due to my job, I can't. (At least for another 2 months)

[Ellipses]

Originally Posted by Restlesstornado

Edit: I would love to see some information to show direct XP percentages you'r NPC takes. I would do the tests myself but since I am not able to play right now due to my job, I can't. (At least for another 2 months)

It's a straight 30% cut, regardless of whether you're in a party or not. Second main bullet point in the linked section: "When you fight with your Adventuring Fellow you will receive a 30% reduction in your experience points. Your party will not experience any exp reduction."
So you take 30% off of whatever you'd normally get in a party anyway.

[Restlesstornado]

Originally Posted by Ellipses

Second main bullet point in the linked section: "When you fight with your Adventuring Fellow you will receive a 30% reduction in your experience points. Your party will not experience any exp reduction."

Thanks that does clear that up.

(I cannot go to the linked site because most of the internet is blocked on the goverment computers I use while overseas.)

[LyonheartLakshmi]

I would have linked wiki earlier, but like you mentioned, they wouldn't be based on my own numbers, and most people simply respond, "Wiki tends to be wrong on a lot of things."

I must make a note of this. It's apparently ok to spread misinformation as long as the point your trying to make holds to some degree. That must be why the myth was perpetuated for so long that a BST will reduce his party members' exp by having a charmed pet during the fight.

Edit: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/update...B1/detail.html

"A player fighting with an NPC fellow will receive only 70% of the usual experience points gained for solo battles."

[little ninja]

I never noticed the exp cut. Then again I was using jug pets on a lvl 50 goblin at lvl 75..

[secunia]

i always use my npc at level 5, with empress band, to get thru 1-10 quicker. with corsair's roll, xp was uber :-)