Tonight while partying with my wife doing last quest for act 4 we noticed that she was getting significantly less experience compared to me. We were both the same level and in the past we’ve noticed she sometimes lead my by 1-2 bars but tonight was much more severe. At one point we decided to write down our current experience and then compare it after a while to see if there really was a difference and to our surprise there was a huge gap. Not sure what caused it but here are the numbers:
At start:
Me: 259,390
Wife: 400,348
At end:
Me: 348,360
Wife: 434,989
Gains during session:
Me: 89,070
Wife: 34,641
The difference is quite significant and we are not sure why this is. We had always been on the same level +- 1-2 bars but this seemed a bit excessive.
Hope to hear from the devs to see what may be causing this. If someone from the technical team can reach me I can provide more details.
Thank you
It may be that you only get a percentage of the XP if you actually hit that mob.
As an example:
Let’s say between you both, you killed 100,000xp worth of mobs.
You hit 80% of the mobs before they died, so you got 80% of that 100k xp.
Your wife hit 34% of the mobs before they died, so she got 34% of the xp.
When you both hit the same mob, you both got the XP for the kill, and when only one person hit the mob, only that person got the XP.
It might also be that you did more damage than, her so you got more XP
I have no idea how XP is calculated, so I have no idea if any this is relevent.
You might test again on only 2 mobs of the same type.
You kill one, while she does not attack at all, then she kills the other while you do not attack. Do you both get the same amount of XP? If not, then something seems off.
Blizzard does not respond here. Maybe 1 in 5,000 posts gets a response when there is a game-breaking bug. This is a one-way reporting forum.
Good idea, I’ll try that on a single mob as mentioned in your suggestion and see if that holds true. If it is true then it’s pretty ridiculous to be honest, all past games the exp system work equally amongst all members as dps may differ. For exp to be distributed in a party specifically on damage dealt seems unfair lol.