Crystal cove: how to get the optionnal XP ?

[kruggh_ddo]

Yesterday while doing Crystal cove (we were doing lvl 8 difficulty with lvl 5 chars), i noticed that we received twice some optionnal XP per run.
Usually it went like this:
- when the first 100 crystal are collected: we get some optionnal XP (most of the time 0 though)
- when the quests completes: we get the base quest XP + we get some optionnal XP (once again most of the time 0)

Anyone knows how the two optionnal XP gains are calculated ?
I suspect this has to do with the red killings but not too sure...

Thank you for help.

[scampb]

Yesterday while doing Crystal cove (we were doing lvl 8 difficulty with lvl 5 chars), i noticed that we received twice some optionnal XP per run.
Usually it went like this:
- when the first 100 crystal are collected: we get some optionnal XP (most of the time 0 though)
- when the quests completes: we get the base quest XP + we get some optionnal XP (once again most of the time 0)

Anyone knows how the two optionnal XP gains are calculated ?
I suspect this has to do with the red killings but not too sure...

Thank you for help.

This was a good question because I did not understand it either. I just chose to ignore it since I was not there for xp anyway. However, it seems you have stumped the DDO world.

[Zenako]

I believe that most of the time the display of "0" exp is in error (unless you are 5 levels over the quest/dungeon level setting). Watch your chat display or note your EXP total before entering CC and after completion. The amounts of EXP in the optional awards are smallish if I recall correctly (a few hundreds) so they are easy to miss on the EXP bar if not looking. Capped 20's never pay attention to things like this, but I have noticed it a lot more on my lowbies running the cove for shards, gems and EXP.

[LordPiglet]

When the time hits 0:00 it will award 0 xp, a few seconds later it will award your actual xp. I think it's right when it brings up the graphic with your calculated earnings of shards.