Spent most of my L2 life soloing now i'm getting into the party scene. It was my understanding that if you had a really broad range of levels in a party you were penalized exp and drops. For instance in a party in ev, 4 chars within 2 lvles of 53 then a lvl 64 joined. Am i wrong about thinking this is a bad idea? Or should we just let anyone into the group? Or i join a group and ask about the other chars and find out we've got peaple from 40 to 60 in one group.
The drops are penalised based on the level of the person who did most damage.
The group earns a set amount of experience based on the number of its members. The experience is then split between the members based on their level, with the highest level receiving a greater share. Finally, experience is penalised for each character based on the difference between his or her level and that of the killed monster: Less experience and SP will be received for killing something light blue or lower.
There is a penelty ingame but thats only true when you got someone wich is more then 20 lv's below, The penelty for that char is that char dosnt increse the % xp bonus for that party member.
Well, you can test that yourself. How much did your exp decrease when that lvl 64 joined?
For drops it's no problem as long as the mobs are still green to the highest party member. And lower people usually are no problem at all, I started pulling my prophet along with me when I was lvl 40 and the prophet lvl 20. Exp was still very good for both chars and the lvl-difference grew smaller and smaller.
For a few days ago I was "power lvling" one of my clan mates.
He was lvl39 and I used my lvl62 Spellhowler
We was playing in EV, so all mobs was dark red to him and dark blue to me.
I did get a HUGE XP penalty, but it resulted in that he did get extra XP.
So he ended up getting like 0.15% - 0.18% for each kill that I made.
When using a SH + PP + SE to buff and recharge out of party, he actually got 60-70% in less then 1,5 hour.
So basicly I think its ok to power lvl this way, when you do not have a big boom or anything like that.
I'm thinking about testing it further, by using my ""tempest" spell on the Connabi groups outside Oren(I can one-shot those). One full groupe will give like 13000-15000 XP, so its going to be interesting to see how much the lowbie gets :)