Lowered Experience For Power Attacks

[javaguru]

It seems they've lowered the experience point gain from power attacks against dragons. I did one hundred trials with power attacks soon after dragons were released and it used to be 3.3xp per stamina point. I just finished seventy eight trials and the reward was 2.66xp per stamina point expended and the highest xp award was 24xp and I only had a few 20+ attacks and many with 10xp or less. Previously 19% of my attacks were 20+ experience points with the highest award being 44 xp with only 7% of the attacks falling under 10xp. In my latest trial it seems that fully 1/3 of my attacks were 10xp or less.

Under the old formula you would average 1.65xp per ability point invested in stamina which made it comparable to the 1.75xp gained per point invested in energy (based on the best quest I have available). The readjusted xp for attacks on dragons only gives 1.33xp per ability point invested and the Keira numbers are even worse. After 150 power attack trials against Keira it gave an average of 1.89xp per stamina point spent which is a mere .95 xp per skill point invested in stamina.

If you want to gain levels rapidly without being a pure quester don't waste too many points in stamina because the "bang for your buck" from energy is still the greatest. I didn't factor in the cost of doing all the quests, just the most efficient, but every quest gives more xp per ability point than engaging in a Kiera fight.

[The Lord of the Files]

Interesting analysis.

Did you factor in the frequency of XP assists from other attackers, or discount them?

I seem to be seeing them less often after the most recent update, but it's hard to pin that down to a code change since my stats have changed radically in a very short time...so many possible variables.

Without knowing how the XP assist probability is calculated, weather it's based on a stat, the number of attackers in the battle, or some other variable, I think any average of XP return will have to discount those XP gains.

Do you still have the data you used? Did you note the XP assists when you recorded the data in the first place?

[javaguru]

Interesting analysis.

Did you factor in the frequency of XP assists from other attackers, or discount them?

I seem to be seeing them less often after the most recent update, but it's hard to pin that down to a code change since my stats have changed radically in a very short time...so many possible variables.

Without knowing how the XP assist probability is calculated, weather it's based on a stat, the number of attackers in the battle, or some other variable, I think any average of XP return will have to discount those XP gains.

Do you still have the data you used? Did you note the XP assists when you recorded the data in the first place?

I have all the data from my first trials but I didn't indicate the frequency of assits. I have 135 stamina which gives me 27 trials per stamina burn and I used favor points for the keira attacks so I had six consectuvive stamina burns split between two Keiras. I only had three burns on the dragon before I was too close to leveling to waste the favor points.