Bonus XP for Optionals?

[Yiren]

Quick questions on XP:

1. Do you get any bonus XP (e.g. Persistence) for Optional Objectives?
2. Do you get any XP for Optional Objectives after you complete the main objectives and the XP is "locked in"?
3. Do you get any bonus XP (e.g. Persistence) for Optional Objectives after you complete the main objectives and the XP is "locked in"?

The reason I'm asking is that I sometimes "accidentally" finish the main objective (click on final thing too fast) and then double back to finish the optionals...


Yiren.

[Shade]

What happened to the new player questions forum.. Can't see it, thats where this should be, maybe its gone.. Anyways..

1. No. Optional XP is based on the base XP of the quest, modified only to go down if people in the quest are too high lvl, generally not up. Tho in some cases other modifier do effect it, thats rare and probably a bug tho.
2. Yes. They are awarded imediately as a 1 shot deal, and work anytime even after the quest is completed.
3. See 1.. No. Modifiers generally should not effect optionals. If they do, you must aquire them before completing the optional.. Tho again this shouldnt happen in most cases.

Finishing the quest too soon can result in lower XP.. As bonses like conquest, ingenious cunning and ransack are not added if done after quest completion.

This can lead to having to do strange things.. Often endfights are most safely done by killing the boss ASAP.. But if you want the full xp, best done by killing the boss last, after all the trash in the room has been cleared for conquest.

[Yiren]

Thanks, Shade. Much appreciated.

[honkuimushi]

It's probably worth pointing out that optional creatures do count for Conquest and the breakables in the optional areas count towards Ransack. There are a few quests I know where getting Onslaught or Aggression or Conquest is dependant on rare spawns. There is also at least one quest where a bunch of breakables are in an optional room that's locked until the quest is over. That means that you can't get more than Vandal.

So I guess the upshot is, if you want to max XP, try to do the optionals before finishing the quest. However, that isn't always possible and you still get optional XP if you do thaem later. You just can't get the bonuses like Conquest, Ransack and Ingeneous Debilitation.