*Update: 07/17/15

Leveling Path (50% pot, 5% shrine, 10/25% tome, 5% voice)

SPIES IN THE HOUSE - 20-25 for bravery bonus
EE Spies (First time elite, BB, BB streak, daily, vandal, onslaught, ingenious, shrine, voice, 50%, optionals, tome, no death, no reentry): ~271k exp
EH Spies (First time hard, vandal, onslaught, ingenious, shrine, voice, potion, tome, optionals, no death, no reentry): ~174k
EN Spies (First time normal, vandal, onslaught, ingenious, shrine, voice, potion, tome, optionals, no death, no reentry): ~159k
First ~30 minutes, get ~604 exp. Not hard to do with a group of levels 20-25 to get that EE BB.

THE JUNGLE OF KHYBER (VON3) - 20-26 for bravery bonus
EE VoN3 (First time elite, BB, BB streak, daily, ransack, conquest, ingenious, shrine, voice, 50%, optionals, no deaths, no reentry): ~179k
EH VoN3 (First time hard, ransack, conquest, ingenious, shrine, voice, 50%, optionals, no deaths, no reentry): ~118k
EN VoN3 (First time nomral, ransack, conquest, ingenious, shrine, voice, 50%, optionals, no deaths, no reentry): ~109k
Takes an hour or so for all three runs, netting less than 406k xp. Run with a party of level 20-26 to obtain bravery bonus. Note, the exp is absolute max, given all the optionals spawning. This will not be the case. Exp will be less based on number of optionals spawning, trap bonus, etc.

THE CHAMBER OF RAIYUM (WIZ KING) - 20-26 for bravery bonus
EE WizKing
EH WizKing
EN WizKing

AN OFFERING OF BLOOD (OOB) - 20-25 for bravery bonus
EE OOB (First time elite, bb, bb streak, daily, shrine, voice, 50%, no death, no reentry): ~120k
EH OOB (First time hard, shrine, voice, 50%, no death, no reentry): ~63k
EN OOB (First time normal, shrine, voice, 50%, no death, no reentry): ~55k
OOB is a straght forward, easy quest. Just run to the end, skipping most of the optional content, and you can do this quest in 4-15 minutes a run, depending on difficulty setting. All 3 runs should take roughly 30 minutes total or less for 238k exp.













Tip for people that are wondering how to see the quest exp in game. At the end of the adventure, the little pop saying how much exp you earn is the actual exp you earned for most things (exp potion, shrine, voice, ransack, conquest, etc). It does NOT include optionals. For the optionals, you have to open the quest xp log and see how much those are individually. An example is here:



In this example, you earned 121,273 + 5,870 +
5,870 + 5,870 + 5,870 + 11,740. That is your total exp gain and it is accurate (156,493 experience). There is no hidden exp or anything of that sort. Also, worthy of note, everything but optionals DO affect the large total (121,273) whereas optionals are completely separate. What does this mean? Well, let's take Wiz King (The Chamber of Raiyum) as an example, since it is a well known quest. You can finish the quest by grabbing the scroll after killing Raiyum, without doing the other 2 towers. Then, even though the quest is "complete" you can still kill the other 2 dijiins and hafez/hami and still get all that optional experience. The stuff you can NOT earn after completing the quest are things like Ransack and Conquest.

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Example of how experience bonuses are applied, taken from ddowiki:
Misery’s Peak Elite XP = 1660
Ransack (15% of 1660) = 249
Onslaught (15% of 1660) = 249
Tome of Learning (50% of 1660) = 830
1st Elite Completion (80% of 1660) = 1328
Never played, played on elite, Bravery Bonus (20% of 1660) = 332
Elite Streak (50% of 1660) = 830
Daily playthrough bonus (20% of 1660) = 332
Flawless Victory Bonus (10% of 1660) = 166
Persistence Bonus (10% of 1660) = 166
Subtotal: 6142
Ship buff (5% of 6142) = 307
30% pot (30% of 6142) = 1842
VIP bonus (15% of 6142) = 921
Total: 9212 (by Zav on the DDO Forums)

Experience Bonuses:
First Time
First time on normal: 25%
First time on hard: 40%
First time on elite: 80%

Daily
First time playing the quest that day: 20%

Bravery Bonus
Normal: null
Hard: 10%
Elite: 20%

Bravery Bonus Streak
Normal: null
Hard: 25%
Elite: 50%

Flawless (no deaths)
10%

Persistence (no reentry)
10%

Killing Bonus
Aggression: 10%
Onslaught: 15%
Conquest: 25%
Discreet: 5%
Devious:  7%
Insidious: 10%

Trap Bonus
Tamper: 10%
Neutralization: 20%
Ingenious Debilitation: 30%

Secret Doors Bonus
Observance: 8%
Perception: 10%
Vigilant Sight: 15%

Breakables Bonus
Mischief: 8%
Vandal: 10%
Ransack: 15%

Definitely. Like in spies in the house. It's worth quite  a bit of exp if you can manage to get traps and break a few breakables... I just don't know how much data I want to represent in these tables yet.

Lol don't tempt me... Quit my job on the 4th, so just sitting around all day, playing ddo and other games. Getting restless, hence spending tonight working on this. There definitely are some quests that traps/breakables/killing is worthwhile, and some that are not... breakables in spies vs breakables in kobold new ringleader, for example. If I get bored enough... I might actually put some of that info down, though most is common knowledge... Then again, people are still asking how to level, and these days, it's very easy.

Just an update. Been stuck on spies atm. Going over and over on the exp, and it just is not adding up correctly.

Stepped in to Epic Normal Spies with 4,333,392 experience. Stepped out with 4,439,175 experience.  That gives me 105,783 as a gain.


EN Base: 36,975
Did not have first time bonus, BB, BB streak going.
BB: 0
BB Streak: 0
First time: 0
Daily: 0
Tome: 10% (3,698)
No deaths: 10% (3,698)
No re-entry: 10% (3,698)
Kill bonus: 15% (5,546)

Subtotal: 53,615 exp

Now we add in voice, shrine, and potion.
Voice: 5% (2,681)
Shrine: 5% (2,681)
Potion: 50% (26,807)

Total: 85,782

Now, the part that I have to added in is the optional exp from freeing the 4 captives. Each is +10% exp, and a bonus of 20% for all 4. So, 60% total. No matter how I figure it, I can't seem to get the right numbers.

The closest I can get is this. The optional for these is not calculated at all in the above. So.... base+first time+daily+bb+streak+persistence+no re-entry+tome+kill+breakables+traps = subtotal

Subtotal+voice+shrine+pot = total

Total + (base*0.6) = New total

Doing it that way, I get:

107,967 exp

whereas my actual in game exp gain was 105,783.  Maybe the difference lies in my use of decimals or such. It's been bugging me that it's not 100% accurate, so I haven't made any additional headway into my charts.

It would be helpful to isolate variables.

Future testing should note starting xp, specific stated xp gain for each optional, specific stated xp gain at completion, and ending xp.

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kum-gulp wrote on Jul 14^th, 2015 at 1:37pm:


This is so true

I did not know that I could do that. Thanks Drop Just beginning to learn excel. Currently using Drive.google (for sharing purposes), but it seems to be excel. Will see if I can go back and clean up some stuff using that.

Some Guy Here On The Boards wrote on Jul 15^th, 2015 at 6:43am:



I haven't used Google Spreadsheet since it was released, but it did not have the same the advanced functionality as Excel.
Perfectly good for keeping tally of your stamp collection, or producing basic charts, but not much of the advanced Excel stuff unless it has changed.  So I can't help you much about finding functions in Google sorry.

Excel is a very good tool - take a course in it.
Learn the good fundamentals early on so they become ingrained in how you use it.  Spreadsheet discipline and structure is important to having reliable tools.

Alas, the more MS play with Excel, the more they frack it up.
Sure they add new features, but some of the advanced core stuff gets broken along the way..... hey, that sounds familiar......   

We encounter all sorts of weird errors in Excel 2010/13 that never used to occur in 2007.  Very frustrating.

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That's more like using a flamethrower; you'll scare them off.