#0 - Feb. 1, 2010, 10:58 p.m.
Hi-
I've opened up a ticket in game (two actually) and have not received adequate responses regarding this issue. There is a similar post on wow-europe forums, but I could not contribute to that one. Here goes my own:
My wife and I rolled druids together about a (two) month(s) ago. Since this was her very first character, I elected not to outfit my druid with heirlooms so that we could enjoy a classic leveling experience. Also, her account is standard; no recruit-a-friend promotion here.
I'd guess that 75% of our time is spent in random dungeons, and the rest is spent questing. Up until around the level 45, we would level at nearly the same time; for sure within a mob kill or two. However, one night we were in a dungeon and she leveled. Glancing at my bar, I noticed I still had about 1/5th of the way to go before I would level. Thinking it strange, but not being able to attribute a cause for the difference, we went on.
After a few more play sessions in which we ran 1 random dungeon each, she leveled again, but this time, I had 4/5ths of the way to go before I would level. I made sure that she had not played at all when I wasn't with her, and she confirmed this. Not being able to get my head around it, I started to pay more attention to her experience gains. When out questing and completing quests, we are awarded the same amount of exp (when at the same level). However, this is NOT the case when doing random dungeons.
The first problem I saw was in the rewards text on the random dungeon queue selector. There, it states for example that my wife will earn 12250 for the first random dungeon she completes. On my selector, however, it states that I will receive a meager 1225. In the wow-europe post, the GM suggested there was nothing in the logs showing different exp gains. However, I witnessed this differential upon completion of our most recent random dungeons, where she is literally awarded ten times more experience than I.
In addition, there is a slight difference in exp gained for mob kills in random dungeons. It's a small amount (5-10%), but significant in accumulation, to where now after only a few short sessions of play running the very same content, she is nearly a full level ahead of me.
So, uh...head's up.
Edit to add: It also is not related to rest EXP gains. We log in, and log out together, and always log out in an inn. :)
This thread was originally posted in Bug Report forum, but was suggested that I post here as well. That thread has some more info in it as well. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22418945973&postId=224165691884&sid=1#0
