Bonus XP Weekend!

[Gnobrin]

<p>Starting Friday, February 1st, 2008 at 2pm PST and lasting until 12:00am of 2/3/08 PST, there's bonus experience to gain! This bonus experience affects Tradeskill and Gameplay experience, but not Quest experience.</p><p>Redouble your adventuring efforts this weekend with your guilds and groups, <b>there's <i>bonus</i> experience to collect!</b></p><p>~Gnobrin!</p>

[Darlion]

<p>Inc posts about how the exp bonus was never enabled and etc etc.</p><p>Why do you guys do this just when I'm leaving on a trip for the entire duration? Seriously, I think you guys set someone in my house to moniter that or something.</p>

[Powers]

What was the command to decline the bonus XP again?Powers  &8^]

[Katook]

<p>Can someone clarify something for me?  I've been looking through all the boards but cannot seem to find it (though I may be looking in the wrong forums...)</p><p> How do the bonus XPs stack?  For example, do you have to be at 0% vitality for any bonuses to occur?  Do Drafts of the Skilled/Wise stack with vitality and bonus XP weekends?  Is there a cap to the amount of bonus?  </p><p> I just don't want to waste any drafts.  But if it does stack, then I definitely want to use them.  </p><p> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.  </p>

[ke'la]

<cite>Powers wrote:</cite><blockquote>What was the command to decline the bonus XP again?Powers  &8^]</blockquote>Right click on XP Bar and turn off Combate XP... Unless on a PvP server(I think)

[bleap]

<cite>Katook wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Can someone clarify something for me?  I've been looking through all the boards but cannot seem to find it (though I may be looking in the wrong forums...)</p><p> How do the bonus XPs stack?  For example, do you have to be at 0% vitality for any bonuses to occur?  Do Drafts of the Skilled/Wise stack with vitality and bonus XP weekends?  Is there a cap to the amount of bonus?  </p><p> I just don't want to waste any drafts.  But if it does stack, then I definitely want to use them.  </p><p> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.  </p></blockquote>Turn of your PC and walk away....come back Monday...

[Melodee]

<span style="font-size: medium;color: #660099;font-family: arial black,avant garde;">You all enjoy your extra xp whilst I sit here bored stiff at work all day today!! LOL</span>

[Off]

After I come back from filing for my tax returns in a little while I'm going to gratefully reap the xp!  Maybe I'll finally hit 80 this weekend!  Hmmm...5 1/2 levels....2 days.....then again maybe I won't hit 80...I'll settle for 77 <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/49869fe8223507d7223db3451e5321aa.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Gharik]

<span class="postbody">"12:00am of 2/3/08 PST"Technically that's  Saturday night/Sunday morning. I wonder if he meant to say the following night.</span>

[Melodee]

One would hope so!

[Spyderbite]

<cite>Melodee wrote:</cite><blockquote>One would hope so! </blockquote>I agree! I've got 6 more TS levels to do on my jeweler this weekend.. that extra time will help a lot! <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Guy De Alsace]

Well I got less than 1% for killing the four 60^ mobs you need for shield of the magi quest earlier. They were 10 levels below me (still conned green) but nevertheless I dont know if an extra 5% or whatever will even register. Also 2nd Feb is Saturday oO....hardly the weekend IMO.

[Powers]

<cite>ke'la wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite></cite>Right click on XP Bar and turn off Combate XP... Unless on a PvP server(I think)</blockquote>No, that turns off combat XP.  I want to turn off <b>bonus </b>XP, which affects both combat and tradeskill XP.I found the command anyway; it's /toggle_bonus_exp.Powers  &8^]

[Yngwiem]

<cite>Guy De Alsace wrote:</cite><blockquote>Well I got less than 1% for killing the four 60^ mobs you need for shield of the magi quest earlier. They were 10 levels below me (still conned green) but nevertheless I dont know if an extra 5% or whatever will even register. Also 2nd Feb is Saturday oO....hardly the weekend IMO.</blockquote>Yea... I'm not seeing anything extra. Even tradeskilling is the same. I have a 58 Necro, and I was soloing 48^^^ mobs. Got like .25%... maybe .33%. I even killed a 49^^^ named. Blah. Decided to take him back to work on tradeskilling as a 25 Carpenter. Nothing special there.

[DobyMT]

I didn't notice anything killing the solo mobs in Fens. I was still getting 0.1% per kill.

[Yngwiem]

<cite>DobyMT wrote:</cite><blockquote>I didn't notice anything killing the solo mobs in Fens. I was still getting 0.1% per kill. </blockquote><p>I forgot to mention that for some of the day, my wife grouped up with me and mentored me. Didn't notice anything there either. </p><p>Today, we went out to smack some things in Pillars of Flames. But we didn't group. I would hit the mob, then she would send in her pet to finish them off. Were smacking Naga's that were 2 leves higher than me, and were ^^. Still getting the fraction of 1%. </p>

[Te'ana]

My husband and I seemed to be getting about half the normal adventure and tradeskill experience on Saturday.  Perhaps the programmer forgot to add the one in front of the decimal point <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Eesti]

there was no bonus on splitpaw this weekend, i killed the same mobs i did during the week and exp was still the same on the weekend ...

[Vonotar]

One of our guild members created a new toon on TD and we went through all the quests (with my level 12 mentoring).Should be normal xp + 5% mentor bonus + whatever% weekend bonus, however she still found she wasn't levelling fast enough to keep up with the quests (i.e. the quests were always above her level, to the point where she had to go back at one point as an npc wouldn't give her the quest as she wasn't high enough).Whether thats an indication of no weekend bonus, or just that TD quests are spread too thinly over levels I don't know.

[Rattfa]

I levelled my Dirge from 63 to 67 in about 10 hours of play time this weekend...Vitality + Xp Potions + Bonus XP + People mentoring me = ZOMG WAHEY

[Anonolo]

On Splitpaw it did not feel double xp'ish <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Did they forgot to tune the euro servers ...

[Iamken]

<p>Ugh..I wish they gave more notice on this.  I usually only read the forums during work hours (shh don't tell the boss!) and this was announced late Friday. =(</p><p> How often do they have Bonus XP Weekends?</p>

[Vendolyn]

I finally managed to solo out of 71, which was a very painful level for me.  I also used up all of my vitality on my main as a provisioner (never ever ever did that before with any of my TSers) and got my other half of team A up to 21 as a carpenter!  WOO.

[lilmohi]

<cite>Anonolo@Splitpaw wrote:</cite><blockquote>On Splitpaw it did not feel double xp'ish <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" />Did they forgot to tune the euro servers ...</blockquote>He never said double.  Last time they did bonus xp it was only 20% so i'm betting that is what they did this time as well.  I can hardly tell there is an increased xp gain when i use a potion which is a lot more of a bonus than 20%.

[Gnobrin]

<p>Take note all, it's <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>BONUS</b> </span>xp, not double XP.  The result wasn't going to be extreme, but it would of been a slight addition to the overal incoming adventure and tradeskill experience.</p><p>~Gnobrin!</p>