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Character Levels and Quest XP Caps


Notes

It seems that the post I made on the other forums was too old to be converted, or I was too stupid to find it, either way here is a repost with request to be listed.

I could no longer use <pre>-tags for the formatting but had to use Courier New as a font. The resulting CSS formatting says font-family: Courier, Courier New which is suboptimal, because a generic font family --in this case: monospace-- should be given according to the W3! Definitely something to be /bugged!

If you find any wrong value in the list, feel free to let me know. And thanks to everyone who has helped me recording the values!

TODO: Starting with Chapter 5 the XP values for each level may apply for Entertainer and Trader Character levels as well. I don't know yet, needs testing and confirmation.


Quest XP Caps explained

Quest XP Caps were added to the game to prevent low level characters from gaining several levels at once by doing quests actually meant for higher level characters. The rule of thumb is, to advance to the next character level doing quests you have to do at least two quests. So the first thing to do is to get the Character XP difference between the current and next level:

XP Diff = Total XP needed for next level - Total XP needed for current level

The Quest XP Cap is just half of that value.

Quest XP Cap = XP Diff / 2

Example: You are at CL4. 3800 XP were needed to gain level 4, and 5900 XP will be needed to gain level 5. The difference between these two is 3100 XP, so the Quest XP Cap for CL 4 is 1550xp -- all the time you are at CL 4.

-> It does not matter whether you are 2 xp or 200,000 xp away from your next level. All that counts is your current combat level! <-


Double XP and Inspirations

According to Red-Dwarf] (sorry for that colour, I'll fix it when the ranks work ), when double XP is in place, the Cap is applied before the XP are doubled. That means: If your cap is at 50k XP, and you do a quest that would normally give 40k xp, you still get 80k from the xp multiplier.

TODO: For inspirations, I understand that you get the 10% inspiration bonus on top of the capped value, but I am not sure if that is 10% of the original or the capped XP. Needs further testing.


Bug: Combat Levels that grant abilities

Red-Dwarf] reports there is a bug with levels that grant new abilities (like levels ...........78,82,86). In the Profession window (P key per default), the levels affected by the bug are those that have an icon connected to it.

When you reach such a level, only a very small amount of XP is carried over to the next level. If you are close to such a level, it's recommended that you grind out the necessary XP so a major XP loss is prevented.

To my knowledge, this bug has not been fixed yet as of 2006-08-07.


And finally: The List


                      Quest XP Cap
            Diff to next         |
CL    Total XP         |         |
 1           0       500       250
 2         500      1200       600
 3        1700      2100      1050
 4        3800      3100      1550
 5        6900      4100      2050
 6       11000      5200      2600
 7       16200      6400      3200
 8       22600      7700      3850
 9       30300      9100      4550
10       39400     10600      5300
11       50000     12200      6100
12       62200     13800      6900
13       76000     15500      7750
14       91500     17300      8650
15      108800     19200      9600
16      128000     21200     10600
17      149200     23300     11650
18      172500     25500     12750
19      198000     27800     13900
20      225800     30200     15100
21      256000     32700     16350
22      288700     35300     17650
23      324000     38000     19000
24      362000     40800     20400
25      402800     43700     21850
26      446500     46700     23350
27      493200     49800     24900
28      543000     53000     26500
29      596000     56300     28150
30      652300     59800     29900
31      712100     63400     31700
32      775500     67100     33550
33      842600     71000     35500
34      913600     75000     37500
35      988600     79200     39600
36     1067800     83500     41750
37     1151300     88000     44000
38     1239300     92600     46300
39     1331900     97400     48700
40     1429300    102300     51150
41     1531600    107400     53700
42     1639000    112700     56350
43     1751700    118200     59100
44     1869900    123900     61950
45     1993800    129800     64900
46     2123600    135900     67950
47     2259500    142200     71100
48     2401700    148700     74350
49     2550400    155400     77700
50     2705800    162300     81150
51     2868100    169500     84750
52     3037600    176900     88450
53     3214500    184500     92250
54     3399000    192400     96200
55     3591400    200600    100300
56     3792000    209000    104500
57     4001000    217700    108850
58     4218700    226700    113350
59     4445400    236000    118000
60     4681400    245600    122800
61     4927000    255500    127750
62     5182500    265800    132900
63     5448300    276400    138200
64     5724700    287400    143700
65     6012100    298700    149350
66     6310800    310400    155200
67     6621200    322500    161250
68     6943700    335000    167500
69     7278700    347900    173950
70     7626600    361200    180600
71     7987800    375000    187500
72     8362800    389200    194600
73     8752000    403900    201950
74     9155900    419100    209550
75     9575000    434800    217400
76    10009800    451000    225500
77    10460800    467700    233850
78    10928500    485000    242500
79    11413500    502900    251450
80    11916400    521300    260650
81    12437700    540400    270200
82    12978100    560100    280050
83    13538200    580400    290200
84    14118600    601400    300700
85    14720000    623100    311550
86    15343100    645500    322750
87    15988600    668600    334300
88    16657200    692500    346250
89    17349700    717200    358600
90    18066900    0         0







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Created: 2007-03-20 16:13:22
Last Changed: 2009-05-01 17:52:17
Author: darkk1138
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