Exp rates are not right

[Doggo]

I did some testing to see what it would be like to farm for meso after the launch. Here are some results:

Character: level 113 Priest
Map: Ghost Ship 2
Monster: Slimy

Currently each slimy is giving out 1299 exp.... that's WITHOUT HS. I made sure to not cast HS while doing this test.
Slimy in a 1x server is supposed to give out 250 exp, so 1299 / 250 = 5.2x. So the server is currently giving out 5.2x exp, not 3x.
In a true 3x environment, each Slimy should give out 750 exp.

Farming results, after 1 hour of farming:
Mesos: 2.3 million. This is pure mesos picked up off the ground.
USE: 12 wand 60% scrolls, 24 Tobi throwing stars
EQUIP: 265 pieces (weapons and armor). NPC-ed for 17.4 million mesos

The amount of pure mesos seems right in line with what I would expect for a 2x meso drop rate. So that looks pretty good.

The amount of scrolls and Tobi stars seems too high for a 2x or 3x drop rate.

The amount of EQUIP dropped is ridiculously high for a 2x or 3x drop rate. It seems to be about 10x rate.

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I did a similar test, this time with a bishop at Skele.

Character: level 221 bishop, using Genesis 30
Map: The Dragon Nest Left Behind
Monster: Skelegon, Skelosaurus
Currently each skelosaurus is giving out 29,851 exp.
In a 1x server skelosaurus gives out 4750 exp, so 29,851 / 4750 = 6.2x exp rate

Farming results, after 1 hour of farming:
Mesos: 4.2 million. This is pure mesos picked up off the ground.
USE: 24 scrolls of various kinds, 156 skill/mastery books of various kinds
EQUIP: 96 pieces (weapons and armor). NPC-ed for 28.8 million mesos

Again, pure mesos dropped seems spot-on, it's about what you would expect from a 2x meso server.

But for USE and EQUIP, again it seems way too high. The meso I earned NPC'ing equipment was WAY higher than what I earned by picking up mesos. Like 7 times as much. That's totally out of whack, it should be at least be in the same ballpark.

 

[yuna]

Thanks for bringing this up - looking into this but first, I'm not seeing 29,851 EXP coming from Skelesaurus. Seeing the following for the 2 mobs:


Is it possible you have family EXP/drop on? Perhaps anything else that could be modifying your rate which we may have missed?

Also do keep in mind there are a bunch of manual changes to drop rates, along with some mob EXP, so it's possible the vanilla base value is not correct to reference

 

[Doggo]

No family exp or HS or any other buff. Just Magic Guard. Also not in a party, totally solo.

It's pretty weird, my level 221 bishop is getting MORE exp from each skele than my level 141 I/L.

Bishop, level 221:


I/L, level 141:


I would like to point out again.... at 3x exp rate the actual number for a skelosaurus should be 14250. Not 29851 or 28500.

 

[yuna]

Looks like its Skelegon's base EXP that was incorrect in the game files compared to vanilla v83. Checked a few other mobs and they look good.

As for the drops, that's custom to this particular map. Can you try another map and see if the same rate applies? Otherwise, we can mark this as a non-issue

 

[yuna]

Confirmed offline with @Phantom that the rates are OK - the discrepancy was due to buffed EXP values of certain mobs (to help lower levels train). As for the equips dropping, will look into this as its simply the customized drop rate for these specific mobs. Thanks