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XP degradation over time

Authorman
Authorman
Soul Shriven
So, I don't know if it's a bug or intentional, but myself and some friends have all noticed the same issue. The more often you play, the more XP degrades. For example, all of our CP characters get a minimum 10x drop in XP after playing for several hours. Then if we wait a couple days, the XP goes back up, but only for a couple hours. If we wait a week, the XP goes up and stays up for several hours.

Happens both in PVE and PVP. Cyrodil dailies for example, yield 70+k XP if using XP potions. Then we hit some wall where it all suddenly drops to 18k. Frustrating as heck when you're trying to level a character. I get farther and faster if I only play once a week than if playing 8 hrs/day - (summer break :)

Our household has three accounts, all with the same issue. And as I said, my friends also notice the same issue. What's up with the XP degradation thing? It's like we're being penalized for playing too much?
  • Mashille
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    This is the 'Enlightenment System'

    It's how you earn XP for Champion Points, the longer you don't play for, the more 'Enlightenment' you have, which is basically giving you bonus XP while it's active.

    It's to help players that don't play as much as othersd to catch up. No bugs. :)
    House Baratheon: 'Ours Is The Fury'
  • TheCaptainJosh
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    Sounds like your enlightenment ran out
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  • lillybit
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    Sounds like inspiration; the higher xp gain is a bonus that's applied once a day (and will build up for several days). When it runs out you'll return to normal (slower) xp levels.

    Not sure why it's done this way but half remember hearing it was to encourage people to make alts. You earn more inspiration by playing a low character or something like that. Unless I'm making that bit up...
    PS4 EU
  • zaria
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    Mashille wrote: »
    This is the 'Enlightenment System'

    It's how you earn XP for Champion Points, the longer you don't play for, the more 'Enlightenment' you have, which is basically giving you bonus XP while it's active.

    It's to help players that don't play as much as othersd to catch up. No bugs. :)
    Yes enlightenment is 4x bonus on xp gain, you get 400K enlightenment each day stacking up to 12 days or 4800K.
    Shared between all cp characters, this bonus is for everything, quests, kills and other stuff, one random dungeon will eat it all at cp 160 or more.

    Grinding just make you go in circles.
    Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.
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