Amorosy wrote on Aug 10
th, 2011 at 1:02pm:
Because of the repeat penalties applied to your normal runs.
If you actually did do 10 runs of normal :
For the Nx10, H, E, you get - 10 on the 4th normal, -20 on the 5th, -30 on the sixth, -40 on the seventh, -50 on the eighth, -60 on the ninth, -70 on the tenth.
For E, Nx10, H, you get -10 on the 3rd normal, -20 on the fourth, - 30 on the fifth, -40 on the sixth, -50 on the seventh, -60 on the eighth, -70 on the ninth, - 80 on the tenth.
A net -280% over time in repeat penalties alone applied to the Nx10, H, E, and a net -360% applied over time to the E, Nx10, H. Then you would also get a 50% + 20% for each E you did though. So, 70% bonus compared to an 80% penalty, right?
You need to work with numbers, not percentages.
Also, it's now +80% for a first time Elite, and the Bravery Bonus is +50%.
So let's take a hypothetical quest.
Say Quest X gives 750 C/1000 N/1250 H/1500 E.
Say it's also WORTH running 10x N (KNR/SC/XC/Delera Part 2/etc)
Your way is n x 10, H, E
first time Normal = +25%. XP starts to degrade after run 3 (not affected by difficulties run.
So your totals would look like the following:
10xN
1250,1000,1000,900,800,700,600,500,400,300
1XH (Hard is now +40%)
1750
1xE (Elite is now +80%)
2700
Add these up for a total of 11,900 xp in the 12 runs.
Now we take the new way of E (with full +50% Bravery bonus), n x10, H
First run is Elite
Ex1 (+80% % +50% full Bravery for a total of +130%)
3450
Nx10 (+25%)
1250,1000,900,800,700,600,500,400,300,200
Hx1 (+40%)
1750
Add these up for a total of 11,850 XP in 12 runs.
11,850/11,900 = .99%
So at 12 runs, you actually get 99% of the possible XP by running Elite first. This bonus would grow then, exponentially, if you were to run it less times on normal it seems.
These are ALSO assuming no penalties for over levelling (by doing it one lvl above Normal Difficulty, this is possible), but not taking in the +10% no death bonus.
Edit: Bad Calculator apparently. Addition got fucked up.