City Of Heroes: Statesman Says: "Fortune Smiles Upon the Mind Controller Of The World!"

Gang,
Fortune smiles upon the Mind Controllers of the world! One of our programmers happened to touch upon XP code and added a nob for us designers to tweak to XP division for powers with Confuse!

As you know, XP is divided by damage done. And the damge done by a Confused mob to another mob is part of that equation. Right now, we've scaled that back so a Confused mob's damage is decreased to 25% of its value...

So let's say a Confused Hellion does 10 pts. of damage to another Hellion. In the XP calculation, it'll consider that only 2.5 pts. of damage. And a player does another 10 pts. of damage to finish off the injured Hellion.

So in the XP split, it'll go like this:

Confused Hellion 2.5/(2.5+5) or 33.3%
Player 5/(2.5+5) or 66.6%

Previously, there would have been a 50/50 split.

Is this the only change we'll make? No. But this is something we're putting right into the Expansion patch so that we can start looking at the numbers. It's a step in the right direction.

There's still other issues: Sleep & Fear. Both of those need addressing. But I thought you'd want to know a little about the XP boost.

What does this mean for you?

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