Wisdom and experience

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:04 am

Hi, was just curious if there was a link between wisdom and the amount of experience you get. i am playing the original campaign as an elf cleric/mage (cleric 12, mage 3) and i am just about to start the host tower. i have played it loads of times and found that with my halfling monk i gained experience faster than with my elf sorceror and with my elf cleric/mage i have gained experience even faster. with my monk i was mid level 14 by the end of the host tower, with my sorceror i was low level 14 and yet with my cleric/mage (which has the highest wisdom i have ever used) i am already at level 15 before even entering the host tower. what is even more confusing is that i am roleplaying as a lawful good compared to my normal chaotic evil (where i kill everything in sight lol) so i'm not even doing any mass slaughtering lol. i've read posts where people say different classes gain different amounts of experience. just wondering if anyone had noticed a possible link to the level of wisdom and how much experience you get (a good example is the morhgs in the sewers in luskan. with a level 13 sorceror with wisdom 10 i was getting less than 100xp per kill yet with my level 14 cleric/mage with wisdom 16 i was getting 125xp per kill).

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:28 am

I have never noticed anything like that being implemented in the game.

My guess is that you experience (hehe) the differences from using summons and henchmen. Perhaps your Sorcerer relied more on summons and henchmen then your monk and cleric/wizard does, which would give a difference in XP.

Also - different classes gain different amount of XP from different types of enemies. I belive it was also written in this forum a couple of times back some time ago - where Wizards seemed to get more XP from fighter-type then mage-type enemies compared to warriors, who had it in reverse.

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:12 am

yeah thinking about it i do tend to use summons when i am soloing as a sorceror during the early levels til my spells become decent. as for henchman i only used them the first time through. now i just do their quests but never have them tagging along. the only henchman i use is deekin in sou and hotu and thats just cos i think his dialogue is hilarious.

Fiberfar · Post by **Fiberfar** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:55 pm

I've noticed that when you use a mage, the enemies that uses melee gives more experience than another mage. And the other way around as Xandax mentioned. Clerics however, get full experience to put it that way from both types of enemies. Maybe that is why your cleric got more exp than your sorcerer even though the sorcerer was at a lower level?

EvilGuy72 · Post by **EvilGuy72** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:51 pm

I can't recall where I found this info, but with the OC certain classes receive more xp. The classes with boosts gain more from level 1 through to around level 8, and they all have a sweet spot.

Sweet spots:

Wizard, Sorcerer, Cleric, Druid - 5th
Rogue, Bard - 4th
Monk - I think it is 5th, but I don't recall exactly.

These sweet spots can be combied to give crazy xp. My friend and I played the OC, I used a Bard4/Cleric5/Arcane Archer, while he used a Druid5/Cleric5/CoT. I'm very sure we recived more xp than any solo warrior.