Mob EXP too low?

MADshadowman · August 2014

Hi, i noticed the past few days that mobs give very little EXP. My current Char is VR2 and VR2 mobs give me like 106 EXP which is not only not much, but also way too little.

The change seemed to happen pretty much instantly cause before i noticed the drop in EXP i had roughly twice as much.

Also Craglorn mobs only give 106 EXP. Does anybody know what's going on?

Gillysan · August 2014

Nope. Industry standard. It's how devs try to sync leveling to their quests. Quests level you while grinding mobs barely give you anything.

Nestor · August 2014

In this game, you grind mobs for Loot, and Quest for Experience. You can grind mobs, but it is only efficient to do so in some select areas where the respawn rate is high enough to make it worthwhile to do some loops. See this thread

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/122757/level-up-from-wailing-prison-to-vr12-in-less-than-a-week

MADshadowman · August 2014

Well, but something must have changed, this is my 3rd veteran char and never before were the exp so low. and like 10 minutes before i noticed that the exp dropped badly, i had normal exp of 200-300 per mob

Dominoid · August 2014

The 106 depends on the XP of the mob. Not sure where it doubles to 212. But it does on tougher mobs.

Zebug · August 2014

The higher level vr mobs give the 250ish XP... If this is your third you might just be remembering your most recent vr gold level areas

MADshadowman · August 2014

I am in the exact same location that got my other chars to vr12 but the mobs don't give the amount of exp they usually do. and like i said i also tried craglorn mobs and they also only give 106 EXP

MADshadowman · August 2014

If someone of you is around VR 1, 2 or 3, please go kill some VR2 mobs and tell me how much EXP you got and what mob that was. Thanks!

suelothvar · August 2014

im vr2 52 vet of wolf, 106ish of everything else, 200ish of big bats.... but hey it's cool I only 900k+ quests give anything for 2-20k+

GaldorP · August 2014

I've noticed that at VR 1 and 2 you get a lot less VP than at higher VRs. That might be because a lot less total VP are needed to reach the next level.
The VP you get from regular monsters will be the same in all areas where they have at least your level. If you are VR 3, all VR 3 or higher mobs will give the same base amount. Some types with more health than regular monsters will give a bit more VP (dreughs, werewolves, spider daedras, ogres, etc.), others a lot less (wolves or skeevers, for example).
The VP you get from bosses (and probably quests and achievements as well) depends on your character's level as well. In Craglorn I got the following numbers when killing any boss (numbers from 2 weeks ago):
~5'500 VP at VR 1
~8'800 VP at VR 2
~22'800 VP at VR 3
~37'000 at VR 11
Regular monsters give around 428 VP at VR 11, so if the scaling for VP rewards of regular monsters works in the same way as the one for bosses, then the expected reward for killing regular monsters at VR 2 would be ~102 (428 / 37'000 * 8'800). My numbers are not 100% exact, but the result is close enough to 106 VP I'd say

zgrssd · August 2014

As a rule of thumb it seems like 1 Veteran level approxmates 10 normal levels.
By the time you hit the second area of Cadwells Silver, you should be 2.5 (about level 15-16 in normal mode; 1.5 higher then with what you started).

So Veteran levels are a grind. And intentionally so.
In any case they are working on reworking veteran content, using the Champion system.

MADshadowman · August 2014

But the strange thing is that it happened while i was grinding. Suddenly the EXP was capped at 106 and wont go up. There's no difference between VR1 and VR11 mobs. they all give 106 EXP which is *** like hell.