Talk:Multiclass penalty and ECL comparison

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you missed to take into account that with having less xp and thus a lower level the amount of xp gain through killing monsters increases. Of course, this is hard to consider in the calculations because this rule is not valid when gaining story xp awards.

Still it should be mentioned. Assume a 20% penalty for a character that is (due to the penalty) one level behind a "comparison" non-ECL character. Let us assume the missing level grants 12% more xp from creature kills. Taking into account story awards this reduces to maybe 6% so we are finally at 0.8*1.06=0.848, resulting in only 85% penalty anymore now.

These are just thoughts, I actually do not know how experience is calculated, I do not know whether there is any knowledge (XP/CR, CR table for all opponents in the game etc.) available in the net to do some more thorough calculation.

I actually do not care much about ECL penalties. In the lower levels they are truly a big problem (especially due to the fact that you HAVE to travel with companions most of the OC which eliminates the "low-level" bonus almost completely) but one will catch up finally. And it is very useful to have spell resistance, some nice attribute bonus, etc.

Multiclass penalties hurt more, unfortunately.

--Dps kane 14:12, 7 April 2009 (UTC)