What is going on with XP?

Singular

Ok, so I'm struggling through the Vet levels and was doing quests because it *seemed* as if the xp was higher than grinding. Then I paid more attention. When I get xp, it reads some very nice high number with a percentage underneath it. Typically, for example, I get see the claim that I'm receiving:

14997 XP
77%

But if I look at my XP before and after, it only raises roughly 4000. I'm starting to think the 77% is a "you're losing 77% here, ha!" to laugh at my time spent.

And other times, I've seen a tremendously high xp read:

399 988 XP
98%

And then get so little it's pathetic.

Questions:

1. What's going on?
2. If there's an XP cut, why? Is it because I'm over/under level? (Up until today, I was Vet 3 in a Vet 2 zone. I went into a Vet 5 zone and it read 57% XP under each xp I got, or thereabouts, but when killed mobs, the xp given was smaller than the V2 place).

and:

3. Why are you choosing to display XP like this? I can't speak for everyone, but it makes me pretty annoyed to know that I'm losing XP for no particular reason.

Shinra

With one level difference, you should be getting more than 90 % of the "base" xp, so that should be out of question.

Can't tell you more though...

drkeys143

I'm not quite sure what you are looking at, but just in case, if it is an add on (like FTC for example), you will get confusing figures, for two reasons - 1, you can see VR points awarded, which is NOT XP, and the little level progress bar is now actually tracking your way towards Champ Points and not level, so it resets every 400k.

It may be that you are not using add on, in which case just ignore all that

LameoveR

77% is how much XP you earned overall on current level. It's 23% left to earn to get next level

Sleep

I'm on 7 and I think it's better than XP as for gaming.

anitajoneb17_ESO

XP counting towards CP is multiplied by 4 when you're enlightened. That's where you get 16Kish CP-XP for 4Kish-VR-XP.

The percentage is just the progress towards your next VR or your next CP, that's all, it's not a "rebate" or anything.

Singular

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

XP counting towards CP is multiplied by 4 when you're enlightened. That's where you get 16Kish CP-XP for 4Kish-VR-XP.

The percentage is just the progress towards your next VR or your next CP, that's all, it's not a "rebate" or anything.

Wow, ok, thanks. That makes sense. (thanks also everyone above for their answers).

Holy, so that means most quests only give around 4k xp? So you have to do around 250 quests per VR level???

anitajoneb17_ESO

Nope. You have the "side quests" which give 4-6K and the main quests (of each zone, there is a "main chain of quests" in each zone) and they give much, much more.

Without grinding, it's easily manageable to reach VR14 doing just the main quests, the Craglorn quests and the dungeons (+ the undaunted dailies). I tend to do all of Cadwell's gold because I like it but most people I know reached VR14 without finishing Cadwell's gold - without grinding.

As it is now you can also try normal DSA when you reach VR8, it's easily doable and the best source of XP in the entire game besides grinding.

Pallmor

If you think that's bad, try playing on consoles, where we don't get *ANY* XP numbers AT ALL.