Experience

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In Asheron's Call 2, as in many other Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG's), experience is the measure of a player character's development. The amount of experience a player has earned is then reflected via their character level.

When starting out, a level 1 player has 0 experience points. Through the killing of non-player enemies and the completion of quests, experience points are earned and the player's level increases as a result. This opens up possibilities for character strengthening and customization.

With each level, the amount of experience needed to reach the next level increases exponentially - experience rewards from questing and hunting increase also, but to a lesser extent, meaning that leveling takes progressively longer at higher levels. There is no way to decrease in level or lose experience; it is strictly an ascendant progression.

The maximum possible level is 150, however there is insufficient content to reach this level. The 'soft cap' is approximately level 100. The highest quest XP is as a percentage of the total needed to reach level 86, whilst the highest regular creature is level 95.

Character Development

Health and Vigor

Each 'level up' automatically increases the player's maximum health and maximum vigor. The amount varies depending on the player's level.

Level	1-10	10-20	20-25	25-36	36-45	45-49	49-50	50+
Max Health	+30	+25	+20	+15	+10	+5	+5	+30
Max Vigor	+30	+30	+30	+30	+30	+30	+60	+10

Accuracy and Evasion

Accuracy and evasion values begin at 8 for a level 1 player and are increased by 8 for each level up until level 50.

Skill Credits

Each level up from 1-50 earns you 1 'skill credit' (totaling 49), which you may use to train skills with and specialize your character - a skill can cost between 1 and 5 credits to train. From level 45, and after becoming a Hero of Dereth, each level up earns you 100 'hero credits', which you may use to train hero skills and perks.

Improving Skills

A skill begins at level 1 after first being trained. In order to increase its strength you must increase its level by allocating experience points to it. How much experience you have to spend on skills depends on the total experience you have earned thus far, as well as how much you have already spent. Each level up of a skill has a specific experience cost and you must have the entirety of this amount available in order to raise the skill's level.

Untraining Skills

Allocating skill credits and experience is not a permanent decision: it is possible to untrain all skills in order to recover and redistribute skill credits and experience points. To untrain a skill there must first be no skill trained above it, no other skill currently being untrained and the skill itself not on a reset timer. With this being the case, select the skill and click the downward-pointing green arrow. This will begin the process of untraining. To complete the process you must earn the same amount of experience points as you have invested into the skill. A skill with 10,000 experience allocated to it would require you to earn 10,000 experience to untrain it. At the end of the process you would then have 20,000 available experience points and any associated hero credits.

Another way to untrain is with the Soul Eater quest and looted Eater of Souls Tokens.

It should be noted that hero perks are limited to one perk being untrained per week. They have no experience to recover, however.

Equipment Requirements

Weapons and armor have a usage minimum requirement in terms of player level from 1-50 and then in terms of Arcane Lore to dilineate items beyond level 50. Arcane Lore is a hero skill that requires experience to level up.

Additionally, each level up increases the user's maximum capacity in Armor Value and Shield Value.

Enhancing XP Gained

Percentage Rewards

Quests may give a fixed XP reward or a percentage XP reward. Those that give a percentage XP reward do so as a percentage of the total XP needed to level for your level - the XP needed to level value is taken from the beginning of the level and does not change as this value decreases with the player getting closer to leveling up. This means that XP rewards for quests can increase as your level increases. All percentage rewards are however capped at a certain level. For example, SHRETH Base Ultra is a level 46+ Hero status quest that gives a 4% reward, capping at level 85. This means that a level 46 will earn a 3,359,921 XP reward while a level 85 will earn 3,296,185,479.

Fellowships

Experience earned while hunting is subject to two forms of enhancement.

The first is due to XP sharing ratios, as seen via the fellowship panel. A solo player will earn 100% of the XP reward for killing a creature. Should they join up with others, however, the total reward surpasses 100%. A two-person fellow will each earn 60% from a kill, totalling 120%; a three-person fellow will each earn 45% from a kill, totalling 135%; a four-person fellow will each earn 35% from a kill, totalling 140%; and a five-person fellow will each earn 30% from a kill, totalling 150%. This is the limit of XP enhancement from XP sharing. No advantage exists beyond five member fellows, with six, seven, eight, and nine-fellow groups sharing 150% between them.

Similarly, a hidden bonus exists for killing group type creatures [1]. The kill will instead be worth 150%, 180%, 220% and 250% for a two, three, four and five-person fellow respectively. This bonus does not require XP sharing but it does require that the fellow member either be within the detection radius of the enemy or that they otherwise engage in combat.

Quest rewards are not affected by fellowship bonuses. Also note that XP sharing requires a player to be within 5 levels, higher or lower, of the fellow leader.

Update: Testing indicates a bonus of 270% and 280% for six and seven-person fellows when killing group monsters. There is no bonus further to this.

Mana

When achieving Hero status you will gain access to three craft recipes under 'Quest Recipes' and 'Mana Charges'. These are to create Pure Mana, White Mana and Ebon Mana items, which are consumables that increase your experience while hunting by 25%, 50% and 100% respectively for one hour after used. Quest rewards are not increased by mana usage.

A player may craft up to 7 Pure Manas, 4 White Manas and 2 Ebon Manas in a week before needing to return to the Hero Shrine to renew their charges. Only one mana item may be consumed every 22 hours. Mana charges are tradeable, so a player may use 7 Ebon Manas in a week if they have access to them.

Note that mana items will vanish after approximately 15 minutes of being created and not used.

Weapon Enchantments

Uncommon weapon enchantments include 'Inflate' and 'Lasting Inflate', which act as a debuff against the target monster, increasing the experience reward for killing it by 3% for 15 and 30 seconds respectively.

Hero Perks

Hero Perks are passive skills which can be trained in order to improve a players character. Under 'Miscellaneous', there are 'Fast Learner' perks that, when trained, slightly increases the experience earned from killing monsters. There are 6 in total, with each costing 350 hero credits to learn and increasing XP by 1%, up to a maximum of 6%.

Chain Combos

Chain combos involve three different players in a fellow using a skill each, in the right sequence and with perfect timing so as to produce a special effect. Part of this effect involves the enemy being stunned for about 2 seconds. If killed while stunned due to this effect then it will be worth 25% more XP than normal. The sequences are largely unknown.

Nerfing XP Gained

Hunting

When a player is too high or low of level in relation to a creature's level, experience earned for killing it will be reduced or 'nerfed'. This reduction is incremental, with each additional level outside of the 100% experience range leading to a more severe penalty. The range of levels for which you can gain 100% experience and the extent of the reduction outside of this range varies slightly for pre-Hero and post-Hero content.

The below table outlines what XP a creature will be worth when killed by a player of a certain level, with the top half being for non-Heroes and the bottom half for Heroes. For example, a level 33 player killing a level 20 creature would earn 55% of its normal experience.

Player Level Relative To Creature	14 Below	13 Below	12 Below	11 Below	10 Below	1-9 Below Same 1-10 Above	11 Above	12 Above	13 Above	14 Above	15 Above	16 Above	17 Above
XP	1%	20%	40%	60%	80%	100%	85%	70%	55%	40%	25%	10%	1%
Player Level Relative To Creature	13 Below	12 Below	11 Below	10 Below	9 Below	1-8 Below Same 1-4 Above	5 Above	6 Above	7 Above	8 Above	9 Above
XP	1%	20%	40%	60%	80%	100%	80%	60%	40%	20%	1%

In a fellow, experience nerfing is shared across all members and is determined as a proportion of each members damage contribution. If one person does 40% of the damage in a kill and is of a level that nerfs the XP to 80%, then 40% of the creatures experience will be reduced by 20%; such that, assuming the other members are within the 100% range, the total worth of the kill would be 92% of its normal amount. All nerfing is factored into a creatures experience worth before being shared equally among fellows, resulting in all members receiving the same XP regardless of their contribution to nerfing.

Due to the severity of nerfing being damage-dependent, characters which deal less or no damage, such as debuffers and healers, will be of much less concern when outside the 100% range.

In the case of damage dealt by player-owned pets, the level of the player is what counts and not the level of the pet.

Quests

Certain quests and vaults are nerfed in experience when a player reaches a significantly high enough level - for example, a level 60 doing a level 20 quest may get 1% of the XP reward. However many other quests are not - specifically, hero quest content is rarely nerfed.

Pass Up XP

Pass up XP, seen via the Allegiance tab of the Social panel

The allegiance system is based on a patron-vassal schema that is created when a character swears allegiance to another character. This creates a pyramid-like guild system, with each character having up to 12 vassals underneath them.

Within this system is the feature of experience being passed up from vassal to patron. Whenever a vassal earns experience from killing a monster, their patron will receive 25% of this experience as a bonus known as 'pass up'. This does not subtract from the experience earned by the vassal and experience earned from quests do not contribute to pass up, nor does experience earned as a result of a mana bonus. The maximum amount a player can gain in experience from their vassals is 35% of the total amount needed to reach their next level. If a player reaches this limit, they will receive no more pass up experience until they level up.

It is also possible to gain experience from those characters sworn under your vassals. The experience gained from a grandvassal is 2.5%.

Experience Table

L	Minimum Total XP	XP to Next Level	Skill Credits	Min Hero Skill Credits	Max Hero Skill Credits	Health	Vigor	Focus	Max Armor Value	Max Shield Value	Min Accuracy and Evasion
1	0	40	0	0	0	100	100	0	3	3	8
2	40	56	1	0	0	130	130	0	4	3	16
3	96	80	2	0	0	160	160	0	6	3	24
4	176	111	3	0	0	190	190	0	8	5	32
5	287	157	4	0	0	220	220	0	9	5	40
6	444	222	5	0	0	250	250	0	11	5	48
7	666	311	6	0	0	280	280	0	14	6	56
8	977	439	7	0	0	310	310	0	16	6	64
9	1,416	618	8	0	0	340	340	0	19	7	72
10	2,034	870	9	0	0	370	370	0	22	7	80
11	2,904	1,225	10	0	0	395	400	0	25	8	88
12	4,129	1,725	11	0	0	420	430	0	28	10	96
13	5,854	2,428	12	0	0	445	460	0	32	10	104
14	8,282	3,419	13	0	0	470	490	0	36	11	112
15	11,701	4,814	14	0	0	495	520	0	41	17	120
16	16,515	6,788	15	0	0	520	550	0	46	19	128
17	23,293*	9,534	16	0	0	545	580	0	51	21	136
18	32,836	13,437	17	0	0	570	610	0	57	22	144
19	46,273	18,920	18	0	0	595	640	0	63	25	152
20	65,193	26,638	19	0	0	620	670	0	69	27	160
21	91,831	37,419	20	0	0	640	700	0	69	27	168
22	129,250	52,439	21	0	0	660	730	0	84	31	176
23	181,689	73,316	22	0	0	680	760	0	92	33	184
24	255,005	102,260	23	0	0	700	790	0	101	36	192
25	357,265	142,295	24	0	0	720	820	0	111	39	200
L	Minimum Total XP	XP to Next Level	Skill Credits	Min Hero Skill Credits	Max Hero Skill Credits	Health	Vigor	Focus	Max Armor Value	Max Shield Value	Min Accuracy and Evasion
26	499,560	197,534	25	0	0	735	850	0	121	42	208
27	697,094	273,564	26	0	0	750	880	0	132	46	216
28	970,658	374,957	27	0	0	765	910	0	143	51	224
29	1,345,615	523,938	28	0	0	780	940	0	155	53	232
30	1,869,553	716,290	29	0	0	795	970	0	169	61	240
31	2,585,843	982,535	30	0	0	810	1,000	0	183	66	248
32	3,568,378	1,344,500	31	0	0	825	1,030	0	198	70	256
33	4,912,878	1,835,378	32	0	0	840	1,060	0	214	75	264
34	6,748,256	2,499,417	33	0	0	855	1,090	0	231	80	272
35	9,247,673	3,395,458	34	0	0	870	1,120	0	249	86	280
36	12,643,131	4,601,525	35	0	0	885	1,150	0	268	92	288
37	17,244,656	6,220,802	36	0	0	895	1,180	0	289	98	296
38	23,465,458	8,389,373	37	0	0	905	1,210	0	311	104	304
39	31,854,831	11,286,223	38	0	0	915	1,240	0	334	112	312
40	43,141,054	15,046,112	39	0	0	925	1,270	0	359	120	320
41	58,187,166	20,376,101	40	0	0	935	1,300	0	385	128	328
42	78,563,267	28,076,704	41	0	0	945	1,330	0	413	138	336
43	106,639,971	35,068,877	42	0	0	955	1,360	0	442	145	344
44	141,708,848	47,964,325	43	0	0	965	1,390	0	474	156	352
45	189,673,173	63,492,994	44	100	125	975	1,420	0	507	165	360
46	253,166,167	83,998,037	45	200	250	980	1,450	100	542	176	368
47	337,164,204	110,785,010	46	300	375	985	1,480	100	579	188	372
48	447,949,214	145,748,759	47	400	500	990	1,510	100	618	201	380
49	593,697,973	191,266,097	48	500	625	995	1,540	100	660	213	392
50	784,964,070	250,367,320	49	600	750	1,000	1,600	100	704	228	400
L	Minimum Total XP	XP to Next Level	Skill Credits	Min Hero Skill Credits	Max Hero Skill Credits	Health	Vigor	Focus	Max Armor Value	Max Shield Value	Min Accuracy and Evasion
51	1,095,331,390	359,595,072	49	700	900	1,030	1,610	100	716	230	400
52	1,394,926,462	515,170,283	49	800	1,050	1,060	1,020	100	728	240	400
53	1,910,096,745	736,183,487	49	900	1,200	1,090	1,630	100	740	250	400
54	2,646,280,232	1,049,341,218	49	1,000	1,350	1,120	1,640	100	752	260	400
55	3,695,621,450	1,491,900,877	49	1,100	1,500	1,150	1,650	100	764	270	400
56	5,187,522,327	2,115,694,472	49	1,200	1,650	1,180	1,660	100	776	280	400
57	7,303,216,799	2,992,628,674	49	1,300	1,800	1,210	1,670	100	788	290	400
58	10,295,845,473	3,530,173,698	49	1,400	1,950	1,240	1,680	100	800	300	400
59	13,826,019,171	4,105,592,012	49	1,500	2,100	1,270	1,690	100	812	310	400
60	17,931,611,183	4,762,486,733	49	1,600	2,250	1,300	1,700	100	824	320	400
61	22,694,097,916	5,510,197,151	49	1,700	2,425	1,330	1,710	100	836	330	400
62	28,204,295,067	6,358,767,512	49	1,800	2,600	1,360	1,720	100	848	340	400
63	34,563,062,579	7,318,941,406	49	1,900	2,775	1,390	1,730	100	860	350	400
64	41,882,003,985	8,402,144,734	49	2,000	2,950	1,420	1,740	100	872	360	400
65	50,284,148,719	9,620,455,720	49	2,100	3,125	1,450	1,750	100	884	370	400
66	59,904,604,439	10,986,560,433	49	2,200	3,300	1,480	1,760	100	896	380	400
67	70,891,164,872	12,530,469,549	49	2,300	3,475	1,510	1,770	100	908	390	400
68	83,421,634,421	14,198,777,275	49	2,400	3,650	1,540	1,780	100	920	400	400
69	97,620,411,696	16,106,223,237	49	2,500	3,825	1,570	1,790	100	932	410	400
70	113,726,634,933	18,200,032,259	49	2,600	4,000	1,600	1,800	100	944	420	400
71	131,926,667,192	20,511,436,355	49	2,700	4,200	1,630	1,810	100	956	430	400
72	152,438,103,296	23,054,854,463	49	2,800	4,400	1,660	1,820	100	968	440	400
73	175,492,958,010	25,844,491,854	49	2,900	4,600	1,690	1,830	100	980	450	400
74	201,337,449,864	28,894,141,892	49	3,000	4,800	1,720	1,840	100	992	460	400
75	230,231,591,756	32,216,968,209	49	3,100	5,000	1,750	1,850	100	1,004	470	400
L	Minimum Total XP	XP to Next Level	Skill Credits	Min Hero Skill Credits	Max Hero Skill Credits	Health	Vigor	Focus	Max Armor Value	Max Shield Value	Min Accuracy and Evasion
76	262,448,559,965	35,825,268,649	49	3,200	5,200	1,780	1,860	100	1,016	480	400
77	298,273,828,614	39,730,222,932	49	3,300	5,400	1,810	1,870	100	1,028	490	400
78	338,004,051,546	43,941,626,563	49	3,400	5,600	1,840	1,880	100	1,040	500	400
79	381,945,678,109	48,467,614,099	49	3,500	5,800	1,870	1,890	100	1,052	510	400
80	430,413,292,208	53,314,375,508	49	3,600	6,000	1,900	1,900	100	1,064	520	400
81	483,727,667,716	58,485,869,933	49	3,700	6,200	1,930	1,910	100	1,076	530	400
82	542,213,537,649	63,983,541,565	49	3,800	6,400	1,960	1,920	100	1,088	540	400
83	606,197,079,215	69,806,043,985	49	3,900	6,600	1,990	1,930	100	1,100	550	400
84	676,003,123,201	75,948,975,855	49	4,000	6,800	2,020	1,940	100	1,112	560	400
85	751,952,099,057	82,404,638,803	49	4,100	7,000	2,050	1,950	100	1,124	570	400
86	834,356,737,861	89,161,819,185	49	4,200	7,200	2,080	1,960	100	1,136	580	400
87	923,518,557,047	96,205,602,901	49	4,300	7,400	2,110	1,970	100	1,148	590	400
88	1,019,724,159,949	103,805,845,530	49	4,400	7,600	2,140	1,980	100	1,160	600	400
89	1,123,530,005,480	112,006,507,327	49	4,500	7,800	2,170	1,990	100	1,172	610	400
90	1,235,536,512,808	120,855,021,406	49	4,600	8,000	2,200	2,000	100	1,184	620	400
91	1,356,391,534,215	130,402,568,096	49	4,700	8,225	2,230	2,010	100	1,196	630	400
92	1,486,794,102,312	140,704,370,978	49	4,800	8,450	2,260	2,020	100	1,208	640	400
93	1,627,498,473,291	151,820,016,283	49	4,900	8,675	2,290	2,030	100	1,208	640	400
94	1,779,318,489,575	163,813,797,571	49	5,000	8,900	2,320	2,040	100	1,232	660	400
95	1,943,132,287,147	176,755,087,578	49	5,100	9,125	2,350	2,050	100	1,244	670	400
96	2,119,887,374,726	190,718,739,498	49	5,200	9,350	2,380	2,060	100	1,256	680	400
97	2,310,606,114,225	205,785,519,918	49	5,300	9,575	2,410	2,070	100	1,268	690	400
98	2,516,391,634,144	222,042,575,991	49	5,400	9,800	2,440	2,080	100	1,280	700	400
99	2,738,434,210,136	239,583,939,494	49	5,500	10,025	2,470	2,090	100	1,292	710	400
100	2,978,018,149,631	258,511,070,715	49	5,600	10,250	2,500	2,100	100	1,304	720	400