For those of you who have said that your rune did not work I was hoping you could give me a little bit more information so we can see what is happening.
What level was your vitality at (full or empty) What mobs were you hunting..did you try multiple mobs? Did you try logging off and back on? Were both runes not working or did you already have a rune in use at the time?
For those of you who have said that your rune did not work I was hoping you could give me a little bit more information so we can see what is happening.
What level was your vitality at (full or empty) What mobs were you hunting..did you try multiple mobs? Did you try logging off and back on? Were both runes not working or did you already have a rune in use at the time?
Any additional info you have would be great.
empty vitality, tried several places with mobs, i tried logging off and back on, didnt work. both runes not working and didnt have any other runes on me.
For those of you who have said that your rune did not work I was hoping you could give me a little bit more information so we can see what is happening.
What level was your vitality at (full or empty) What mobs were you hunting..did you try multiple mobs? Did you try logging off and back on? Were both runes not working or did you already have a rune in use at the time?
Any additional info you have would be great.
im afraid to open mine :( if it doesnt work should i send email or petition in?
full vit and one bar of vit, multiple locations, exp/sp earned is the same before and after the box is opened, bar movement (% increase per mob) remains the same before and after.
The runes simply appear to do nothing but count out for 5 hours and then poof.
For those of you who have said that your rune did not work I was hoping you could give me a little bit more information so we can see what is happening.
What level was your vitality at (full or empty) What mobs were you hunting..did you try multiple mobs? Did you try logging off and back on? Were both runes not working or did you already have a rune in use at the time?
Any additional info you have would be great.
It works as intended to be.Your vitality doesn't increase while you hunt.It affects the amount of Exp & SP of the mob you kill.
i.e. Lilim Court Knight at Dark Omens give about 41k Exp,with the runes the Exp of the mob was about 62k.
You won't see any specific message at your system window,that the gained Exp is increased due to the event or the runes.
Open your eyes!
I assisted a friend for several hours last night, she had bday buff and exp rune. We were hunting at HS. The exp/mob increased appropriately once she started using the rune. For her, it worked just fine (and she remained at full vit all along due to the bday buff).
It should be noted (as others have mentioned) that there will be no special message appearing in your window about receiving bonus experience like there was for Eva's Blessing.
as far as I can tell it worked just fine.
Eventhough there was no special message in screen it was noticable in the total xp taken in the xp bar.
On the xp spot where we usualy take 0.6 / 0.65% a hour, with the runes we took around 1.00 / 1.05% an hour.
I dunno guys, but 43k exp and 0.03% before opening the box, and 43k exp and 0.03% after opening the box sure doesn't look like it's working to me.
I didn't expect to see a message of the sort when the bonus exp periods occurred server wide, but I'm pretty sure 50% more means that 43k exp should have gone up to 64.5k exp after opening the box, and it should have put my exp bar up by 0.04.
And no I didn't just kill one mob, I killed lots of them with and without the box and wasted yet another rune box on yet another character to confirm this.
If some people are getting 50% more exp, great. Fantastic. But so far, for my wife and I at least, the runes were most definitely not working at all.
Please take a look at the numerical value in your chat window. Compare this amount to killing the same mob at the same vitality level without the rune.
The bonus experience applies to the base amount of experience and does not include vitality.
If your vitality is at level 4, the difference will be less noticeable than if your vitality was empty.
I dunno guys, but 43k exp and 0.03% before opening the box, and 43k exp and 0.03% after opening the box sure doesn't look like it's working to me.
I didn't expect to see a message of the sort when the bonus exp periods occurred server wide, but I'm pretty sure 50% more means that 43k exp should have gone up to 64.5k exp after opening the box, and it should have put my exp bar up by 0.04.
And no I didn't just kill one mob, I killed lots of them with and without the box and wasted yet another rune box on yet another character to confirm this.
If some people are getting 50% more exp, great. Fantastic. But so far, for my wife and I at least, the runes were most definitely not working at all.
/shrug
are you on Vit 0 or Vit 4? Makes a huge difference ...
Rune works on the base mob exp ... meaning if a mob with 0 vit gives 10000xp, with the rune it will give 15000. Now if you're on Vit 4 you will not get 3*10000=30000+50%=45000
you will get 30000+5000 (rune 50% bonus exp on the base mob exp) = 35000 exp
the 50% runes only worked on the first mob, after that, the rest went back to normal, i was at 3 bars of vit, on first mob i got 53k exp, after that, it went to about 27-30k exp, after killing mobs for about a few buff rounds, i just gave up, since this event was b/s, but anyways, did not try any other mobs, cause it would have been a waste of my time
Well in my case, on vit + 4 and 40% exp bonus from eva I was getting a lot more exp than on vit 4 and xp rune on, which is meant to be 50% bonus.
Killing alpen cougars , 2x hp, i was getting almost 90k xp per kill in first scenario and about 76k in second . The figures are just an aproximation as I don't exactly remember the numbers, but they are close.
The bonus is based on the base exp of the mob and not including the vit ?
That's a bit harsh.
So if you're on zero vit, 50% exp bonus is the equivalent of being on lvl 2 vit ?
An exp bonus should be based on the actual exp you get for killing a mob at the time of killing it and on top of any vit bonus, otherwise you're giving with one hand and taking away with the other.
Did NCSoft consult Gordon Brown and his mad Labour Government for the formula for this event ?
For the record, I did see a change in exp on mob I was killing in Foresaken Plains.
The transform mob, can't think of their name, were giving me a nice 68120 exp when I killed the tiger instead of a usual 52k+
That was on full vit and it dropped to 56-58k on 3 bars.
I suspect that people who got an 'A' in their high school and college math classes have an advantage in the analysis of things like this. Math explains most of the real world and all of a game like L2.
Yesterday morning I sat down 5 hours straight and used mine. I was getting around 24,000 exp points per mob with Full vitality plus the rune (The rune was supposed to be 50% bonus AKA half the original amount).
Right now I'm grinding in the same spot and Im still getting the same ~24,000 exp points per mob.
Liziras explanation says that the rune does not factor vitality in, that the bonus experience is based on the original amount before the vitality factors in.
Since today Im getting ~24,000 exp points with full vitality (Full vitality is 3x exp.) then that means that the original exp amount before vitality is ~8,000 exp points (As ~24,000/3=~8,000)
Had the Exp. Rune been working fine then the experience from yesterday should have looked more like this:
Im playing on Bartz, and I guess I wasted my Exp rune yesterday, and I wasted 5 hours on the PC as I thought I was really getting something. I hope to see this fixed and at least get my Exp. rune back.
ignored because they don't want to deal with it, they just want to fix it for the future. however, if you really feel that you have wasted your rune, you can try to petition in game and maybe they will give you some vitality loli pops.
also... thankyou for letting me know so i can wait til i have 0 bars before i use my rune.
I wasted my exp chest in my main char with no results too. Thank you NCsoft you are so competent :). I would like to congratulate you for this! I'm very happy! Thank you :).
ignored because they don't want to deal with it, they just want to fix it for the future. however, if you really feel that you have wasted your rune, you can try to petition in game and maybe they will give you some vitality loli pops.
also... thankyou for letting me know so i can wait til i have 0 bars before i use my rune.
Doesnt matters if you have bars or no bars. It doesnt give any bonus at all.
Any confirmation on the "Cry to a GM and get Vitapops" statement?
We have not found any confirmed cases where an Experience chest did not work.
The experience is based off of the base amount of experience. If you are at Vitality level 4, you will notice a smaller increase in experience overall than if you have no vitality. Look at the numerical value of experience that is given when you kill a monster, before and after using the rune. Keep in mind that use of pets, levelling up, grouping or having others hit your mobs, will all affect the experience you receive.
Additionally, there is no message in your chat window that will indicate that there is a bonus (like there was with the blessing).