Group Experience Points?

Heruthema · May 2015

I always have more experience points than my playing partner even though we only play these characters as a group. Neither of us is wearing any traits to give more experience and we are both ESO+ members. How does this happen? How can one group member fall behind the other? We do the same quests, fight the same mobs, etc. Neither of us plays these characters without the other. The only exception is on rare occasions when they login alone to catch up and they will get several thousand ahead but I always catch back up and then pass them.

Egonieser · May 2015

Do you by any chance deal more damage?
It might scale off damage done to mobs, but i'm unsure, just a wild guess.

Ley · May 2015

If he isn't always within range of where you're killing mobs, he may not always gain the exp. It shouldn't be a huge difference unless he falls behind often.

Heruthema · May 2015

Thanks for the answers. I am still confused though. There has got to be a valid reason for the difference in scores. My partner and I are rarely more than a few feet from each other. We both do the same damage.

Natjur · May 2015

Are they a healer? or doing most of the heals? Or just both just doing dps?
What class?

Dunkmeister · May 2015

Do you both have the same pvp buffs? Enemy keep bonus gives extra xp.

dodgehopper_ESO · May 2015

Does one of you open more treasure chests than the other?

Heruthema · May 2015

Natjur wrote: »

Are they a healer? or doing most of the heals? Or just both just doing dps?
What class?

They are a sorcerer and I am a templer (non-healer). I manly tank and they do dps.

pcdunkleyub17_ESO wrote: »

Do you both have the same pvp buffs? Enemy keep bonus gives extra xp.

We both have the same PvP buffs and are the same rank

dodgehopper_ESO wrote: »

Does one of you open more treasure chests than the other?

We alternate chests.

I could see a few thousand difference but when it gets to be 30K+ it's a bit much.

Athas24 · May 2015

That is interesting. It should be around the same unless someone is sneaking in extra mob grinding time/pvp time or something like that.

Heruthema · May 2015

Athas24 wrote: »

That is interesting. It should be around the same unless someone is sneaking in extra mob grinding time/pvp time or something like that.

You would think it would be very close but it's not. No extra pvp or mobs, no single play. We have other characters for that.

Merlin13KAGL · May 2015

If your heals (which I assume you inevitably throw out) heal passerby's, you will get XP's from their kills. Your partner will not.

I can be as simple as a HoT from Rapid Regen.

That little bit of extra quickly adds up.

Also, they don't have to be explicit heals - they can be passive heals as a result of skills, passives, or set bonuses. If they have potential to affect others around you, that's likely where the difference is coming from.

Heruthema · May 2015

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

If your heals (which I assume you inevitably throw out) heal passerby's, you will get XP's from their kills. Your partner will not.

I can be as simple as a HoT from Rapid Regen.

That little bit of extra quickly adds up.

I did not know that about heals. Thanks

Nestor · May 2015

Heruthema wrote: »

I did not know that about heals. Thanks

Go into your Achievements window, the one for Dungeons General and there are ones for Damage Dealt, Damage Blocked etc. See what your Damage Healed is and compare it to your friend. If it's much larger, that could be it right there.

Note, this only counts inside of dungeons and delves, not over land mobs, so it won't be everything.