Monster Mission ConspiracyFollow

I don't get it.

I have never seen anywhere NEAR the amounts of XP people are saying they are getting from these monster missions, even after the nerf.

I am level 54 and last night I did an Orc mission from Nektulos with some folks in a pick up group, and the day before that I did the shroom one.

After the Orc mission I got exactly 20% AA XP, while the rest of the people in my group got about 90%t AA XP. (I had 100 percent XP torwads AA's at the time)

Got pretty much the same for the shroom one.

If I got even 50 percent of an AA for doing a MM that would be sweet beyond words. Then again, that would give me a sense of accomplishment and that I actually did something worthwhile. Don't think that's what SOE is going for. /shrug

When/how/where are people getting 80 percent(!!) of an AA for doing a Monster mission?.. is it level specific? I thought it wasn't. The people in my group varied in level from 52 to 68.

J/A

Or. . . It is finnaly balanced to be giving a larger reward to higher level people than to lower level people. The items scale in power when u leave a mission if you are below level 61. It only makes sense that xp now does the same.

I did an orc mission last night, died just a the mission was won, and got zero experience. That was just plain wrong, especially since 3 or us got zero experience because we died about the same time. Our leader had thought it a good idea to lead the orcs in other direction than the DE, and it worked except that those of us who did it got nothing out of it.

Except for the above, I have not tested my experience since the nerf, pre nerf I got an AA with each mission at 65.

I cannot figure why you get less than those lower level than you, report as bug every time. And as I have said before, re-download the patch, do a complete file check before trying it again.

You are right I should have reported it as a bug. I just figured it would get ignored like every bug report I have ever sent, or that SOE would just say "bah, he's wining about not getting more XP.".. which would be a valid argument if everyone who completed the mission with me got the same crappy XP. I understand SOE's general game plan is to make sure that vast amounts of time and effort is expended for almost no reward, (1200 reds to level the shroud, ooookay, I'll get right on that) but let's keep it at least even if that's the way it's gonna be.

A dude that was two levels lower than me (52 to my 54) claimed to have received 83% AA.

J/A

I did one since the last patch. Grouped with some people I didnt' know, played a class I didn't know, completed the mission, won the role on some nice gloves and had a blast.

Didn't pay much attention to the xp on my 62 Wiz, but must not have been much or I would have noticed it.

I don't really care about the exp, I did the orc mission the other day, and it was just really fun.

Not to mention weird since I've killed Emperor Crush like 30 times.

I did the BB mission with my 28 necro yesterday. I got 38ish percent exp. Really I dont think that is so wonderful at lvl 28 considering I could have pretty much gotten that much exp soloing in Meru Seru (or whever that luclin zone is). I think the rewards are much better for the higher end players.

From my experiences, with a lvl 54 Ranger, Pre nerf was 30 percent AA exp with 100percent going to it. I found that lvl 65 and up were getting almost a full AA or more. Everyone I ask concerning when to start AA's....always tells me it is better to wait till at least 60. This is mostly due to AA Exp being the same as lvl 51 even at lvl 70. So if I understand correctly, AA exp gets much better the higher lvl you are. In other words, AA exp is the same as regular at lvl 51. As you lvl higher, the regular exp gets smaller, but AA exp gets bigger.

Hope this helps.

Just to add to the "survey".

70th level Wizard doing Orc missions. I get about .97aa per win. I have noticed it varies a bit, however, that could be due to rounding.

I have had 3 instances in the past two nights were I did not get experience. Once was an Orc mission where Vodrak would not zone. I think someone zoned before he zoned (and was on his way out) and someone was dead. Not sure if both those circumstances caused him to freeze. We tried for about a half hour to get him to zone by killing orcs. The other two were fairy missions. In both cases, we got to the point in the quest where we had to zone, someone died, and someone else zoned before the player who died re-poped at zone in. We all tried zoning back in, waiting a few minutes and zoning back out.