Those fuckers just found a way to get more of my cash.  Damn them all the heck.

Cyr wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 1:34pm:


50%. It's 50% the first time OR 20%, not both. And it's very clearly a tome ("this massive book enhances your ability to learn", the bit about persisting through TRs, etc).

No, not maybe. "This massive book enhances your ability to learn".

20% bravery
50% tome first time in quest
50% streak
80% first time doing Elite
Total increase in XP for first time Elite without in-quest bonuses = 200%
+Conquest 25%
+Ransack 15%
+persistance 10%
+no deaths 10%
Total with in-quest bonuses = 260%

I believe that Voice, XP pot and 3% ship buff all apply after other multipliers are added, so that's
(Base + 260%) * 1.38

Total XP for a quest with all of the appropriate bonuses
Base * 4.97

That's five times the base XP for running the quest and getting all of the bonuses for conquest, ransack, etc.  If you just sprint to the end and get no bonuses other than persistance, you still end up with 4.14 times the base XP for the quest.

Looks like even third life characters won't have to farm XP in any quests until level 15 if they're willing to drink an XP pot or two.

Edit: the 50% first-time replaces the 20% every-time XP bonus, so I had to fix the numbers.

livefreeordie wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 3:29pm:


go play a double TR a few lives in a row, anything that makes that less tedious is a good thing.

if the devs would rather release stuff like this than content that actually gives acceptable exp returns then i'm ok with this.

Once this comes out, imagine how many more true hearts they will sell, coupled with keeping tomes when you TR.

If this allows me to do a second TR by basically running everything on elite and keeping my bravery bonus going I'm all for it and it might actually convince me to do some second TRs.

popejubal wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 6:21pm:


About to hit 15 on my Arti/Ranger hitman for life 3.  It has been a cake walk.  I think we are on our 6th XP potion maybe?  Mostly Elite and done, few farms like Tear, Pit and VoN3, but those even were only E/H/NN.  Don't worry about the XP, it flies.

I still wish they would just go through the content and up the XP in the crap XP quests.  But, I would totally buy the tomes with the XP booster effects in the description.

Aeolwind wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 6:38pm:


Levels 18-19 represent 25% of the total XP you will need to earn.  Pace yourself.

QuantumFX wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 6:58pm:


Totally agree on both points.

Amusingly, with level 7 veteran and a +50% tome on a 20% bonus weekend, you could probably cap a first lifer in something like four or five hours.

cdr wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 9:52pm:


dont worry, turbine has more xp bonuses coming. if you cant cap a toon in 2 hours dont fear, you will be able to buy your levels. o.O

Breaken wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 11:32pm:


Read the whole description.  The part that everyone here is talking about.  Not just the first part.  Dumbass.

Auran wrote on Feb 7^th, 2012 at 3:59am:


They stack.