Last night I decided to roll an alt on Virtue server. Instead of running the old intro quests for the first few levels, I decided to try out AE missions. I did a few solo at first but that got boring really quickly, and while I was wandering around the AE building I was randomly invited to a group. I joined up and we started on a mish. That one seemed to work out well until the leader needed to go and the leadership was placed in my hands. Considering that I have only been playing CoX for approximately a month, I'm not exactly comfortable in the role of leadership in a group, but I decided to roll with it this once.
I decided to try and look for a non farming arc, so I looked at the dev's choice missions. I picked the Butterfly effect one, and we went through the first arc with little issues. A few of us died here and there, but I take into consideration the level of the group (ranging from 3-6) and the fact that they were custom mobs. So during that process I level up and grab a few replacements, at this point we are running 6 people ranging from 2-7, a broad level variance I know.
Let's just say that we couldn't get past the first few pulls during that second arc. One of us would pull and the mobs would stand back and just blast us to death before we could get close enough to do anything. Not to mention the fact that I was the only one in the group with a heal and playing a dark/dark is new to me. I ended up growing frustrated and called it a night as it was getting late and consistently wiping on content was not worth missing out on sleep for me.
Now that you have the background story I can continue with my questions. I was noticing that I was getting minimal XP for the slaughtering of same level minions with the group. The level 7 minions were giving me approximately 7 xp per kill and the lts were only giving me around 23ish. At one point before the end I killed a minion by myself, as the rest of the group was concentrating on something else and received more xp than the lts were giving me (confirmed to my suspicion when we killed a LT and it give me under 20 xp if my memory serves me correctly). It seemed off to me, but as I am a new player I may not be noticing the xp difference when grouped. I usually do not pay attention to the xp distribution while I am grouping, but as it was seeming to take longer for my XP bar to move I decided to finally pay attention. This morning I decided to sign on and test out the xp while soloing a mission. Settings were the same, I was by myself in the mish and decided to run another one. The level variance of the mobs was enough to give me a broad range of XP during this mish and here is my breakdown:
Lvl 5 Min - 7
Lvl 5 Lt - 33
Lvl 6 Min - 10
Lvl 6 Lt - 32
Lvl 7 Min - 14
Lvl 7 Lt - 46
In both of these missions the mobs were custom mobs, so it seems like I am pulling from the same pool. Am I just now noticing the difference in xp distribution while grouping or was there just something off on the first arc I was running. Also, both arcs were dev choices, so I was still trying to pull from the same pool of resources while trying two different arcs. Maybe later on today I will try out the original arc I was running last night as solo and see what the xp distribution was like. I pose this question to everyone on the boards because it is the easiest and quickest way to get a polite answer to my questions.
Sorry about the length of the post and thank you for your assistance.
