So... who got owned thisweek in Campaign?

[FortMan]

Re: So... who got owned thisweek in Campaign?

Rdm.

Hmm, that's odd. I usually go as RDM too, but I find little problems to cap/near-cap xp. You've gotta try keep continuous flow of actions going the entire time.

Using this as a guide, you'll see that there's an xp cap per minute, so a spike of activity will not net as many xp as a continuous flow of one. For example, a bunch of Cure IVs in short time vs. Cure IIs over a longer period of time. Using curing/enhancing other peoples/enfeebling spells help too. A Mob slept is a mob not killing somebody else. And with buffs, you should be able to handle one that wake up with little hassle. Put something in /say like "100% Quadav {Asleep}", and most people will understand.

Also, you should be able to fill the "blank time", time that there're no enemies around. Curing NPCs, for example. Light staff can help here, (more hp cured for the same mp).

I hope this is helpful.

[Raydeus]

Re: So... who got owned thisweek in Campaign?

Sadly my problem isn't that I can't reach cap, but that I cap xp by a lot instead.

I heal, tank, enfeeble, and cast enhancing magic on myself and people around me, plus I deal a decent amount of damage too (and kill at least a couple of mobs per fight). So even without enhancing xp on myself I shouldn't be getting so little xp in that time.

I'll try to keep a better look on things if I play this week to see if I hit the cap like that often. And if I do I'll just stop campaigning unless I'm going for notes only.

[FortMan]

Re: So... who got owned thisweek in Campaign?

Sadly my problem isn't that I can't reach cap, but that I cap xp by a lot instead.

I heal, tank, enfeeble, and cast enhancing magic on myself and people around me, plus I deal a decent amount of damage too (and kill at least a couple of mobs per fight). So even without enhancing xp on myself I shouldn't be getting so little xp in that time.

I'll try to keep a better look on things if I play this week to see if I hit the cap like that often. And if I do I'll just stop campaigning unless I'm going for notes only.

We seem to be doing the same things. I'm still puzzled why you only get 1.1k for 30 mins. I'd look at the "steady flow of activity". Because of cap/minute can be reach quite easily, you can scale sometime down, and has more mp to go for the long run. Downtime is a great setback here.

[Raydeus]

Re: So... who got owned thisweek in Campaign?

Nope, no down time either, I'm doing exactly the same I was doing before the update when I used to get 2k+ xp and 1k+ notes per assesment. But the few times I fought campaign after the update I'd get the same notes/xp every time.

Maybe I just need to get assesments every 15 mins now instead of every half an hour, I'll give it a try if I play these days.

[Kyleet]

Re: So... who got owned thisweek in Campaign?

Nope, no down time either, I'm doing exactly the same I was doing before the update when I used to get 2k+ xp and 1k+ notes per assesment. But the few times I fought campaign after the update I'd get the same notes/xp every time.

Maybe I just need to get assesments every 15 mins now instead of every half an hour, I'll give it a try if I play these days.

Have you always gotten assessments before the battle is finished? I think one of the things they might of messed with is how much exp you get if you prematurely get an assessment. I got 3k+ exp on a battle that lasted little less than an hour. I usually average 1-2k though. Granted, I'm DRG, but I find that if I have to leave early and take an assessment its generally less than if I fight to the end (even if the end happens moments after). Maybe that's just me though...

That's just one thing I've noticed since the update though. And to further my idea that's what happened, I was alone in Batallia Downs (S) (in beastmen control) and I got there after campaign battle had begun. A few of our npcs were left, but I couldn't pull any orcs without getting all of them on me. I did manage to snag a leechkeeper though and took him out relatively quickly. The battle ended shortly after that and I still got 1.5k exp. I mean it seriously couldn't have been more than 5 minutes from when I got there and the battle ended.

Conversely I've been in battles that lasted longer than that and gotten only 600 xp. So who the heck knows anymore.

[Dim Mahk]

Re: So... who got owned thisweek in Campaign?

Diablos
San d' : 6
Basty: 5
Windy: 4
BST: 6

[Aksannyi]

Re: So... who got owned thisweek in Campaign?

Well I've renewed my interest in the past areas now that I can consistently go to Southern Sandy (S) and do campaign ops without having to wait an hour and a half between them, thus taking 5 hours to do seven ops. Now I can actually find the ops that I want to do available, and I can do them in less than an hour.

The past is fun again.