XP at the mid levels

[krud]

I did a favor run in the church and the cult last nite (lvl9 vampire quest) with my lvl 12 clr. The base XP is less than 2000! That's the same kind of XP you get in one part of waterworks or STK. Even some of the other lowbie harbor quests, such as bonebite, aren't that far off in XP. I could understand that they didn't want people reaching cap too soon when cap was lvl10, but less than 2K for a level 9 "long" quest? Especially, when compared to the mega xp one gets in GH

[clericz]

agreed.

getting from level 7-11 is a *****

[Dariun]

Tell me about it...

And the vamp is one of the tougher challenges at that level.

[Zenako]

Well in Church and the Cult, except for the vampire, most groups can move through the rest of the encounter pretty easily I have found. If a group has vampire killers with them, he can go down without undue trouble. If the group does not have those skills/equipment they will generally wipe and wipe. Killing vampires should not be easy. That being said, if you master the tricks of the vampire hunters club, while still not "easy" it can be managed.

Holy Silver Weapons are VERY useful. Manage attacks carefully so you "box him in" somewhere, and then let fire away with dps. Two or more casters can keep ahead of his regen (and then some) with spells, while the boxing melees hammer his unholy butt.

Now as to the EXP reward, probably just a calculation from the core rules. Some monsters at CR X have ALWAYS been pushovers and others have been hard as stone to crack. Sentitent undead fall into the hard, while things like a Hill Giants tend to fall into the pushover class. Both might be CR 9 or something like that, but everyone and his brother can pound on a giant without much trouble.

[Dariun]

Well in Church and the Cult, except for the vampire, most groups can move through the rest of the encounter pretty easily I have found. If a group has vampire killers with them, he can go down without undue trouble. If the group does not have those skills/equipment they will generally wipe and wipe. Killing vampires should not be easy. That being said, if you master the tricks of the vampire hunters club, while still not "easy" it can be managed.

Holy Silver Weapons are VERY useful. Manage attacks carefully so you "box him in" somewhere, and then let fire away with dps. Two or more casters can keep ahead of his regen (and then some) with spells, while the boxing melees hammer his unholy butt.

My point exactly. Anything so tough that you need highly specialized equipment and tactics is worth a bit more XP.

I've generally seen melees to be more of a distraction than a help in that fight. They make the vamp move around and then ray spells can miss him. I once told a cleric "let the fighter die, he can't help" when the cleric missed a searing light to try to heal the fighter.

One good thing about the lousy XP on that mission is that people don't mind missing out on it. Last time I went in, we started with cleric, wizard, fighter, rogue. Then when we were ready for the final fight, the rogue and fighter left and, uh, asked some cleric acquaintances of theirs to go help out with the vamp.

For the final fight we had cleric, cleric, cleric, wizard: firewall, searing light, searing light, searing light, scorching ray, searing light, searing light, searing light, scorching ray, searing light, searing light, searing light, scorching ray...

Now as to the EXP reward, probably just a calculation from the core rules.

Uh, if that quest is following core rules for XP allocation, it is the only one in DDO that does so.

[ArkoHighStar]

there is plenty of xp to be had at these levels
deleras
threnal
CO6
tempest
Stormcleave

all give very good xp for their levels