Experience

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Experience is the way that progress toward advancement in levels is measured. One gains experience, or "learns", in a variety of ways and based on a number of factors.

EXPERIENCE (verb)

The EXPERIENCE (commonly abbreviated to 'EXP') verb is used to displays one's accumulated experience, training points, fame, and other information.

>exp
          Level: 72                          Deeds: 4              
     Experience: 4638062             Death's Sting: None
Exp. until next: 72438               Recent Deaths: 0              
     Mental TPs: 0                            Fame: 27473062       
   Physical TPs: 38                           Mana: 229/229 max
 (2188 Phy converted to Mnt)
  Long-Term Exp: 0              

Your mind is as clear as a bell.

You feel a strange sense of serenity and find that you are able to reflect on recent events with uncommon clarity and understanding. (Gift of Lumnis active.)

Your recent adventures echo powerfully in your mind. (Roleplaying award active.)

You feel the eyes of Lumnis upon you. (Lumnis contest active.)

Unabsorbed vs absorbed experience

When one does something that awards experience, an amount of experience is placed into a character's pool of unprocessed experience. This pool has a finite size, and the amount of experience that goes into this pool is dependent not only on the task that one has just completed, but also the degree to which that pool is filled.

The absorption of this pool of experience is what counts toward gaining levels, and absorbed experience is for all intents and purposes permanent, while any unabsorbed experience is lost during the process of death and resurrection, unless a chrism is used.

The metaphor of short term vs. long term memory is fairly apt in describing the difference between the two types of experience (unabsorbed vs. absorbed).

Size of pool

The size of one's pool for unprocessed experience is determined by one's DIS and LOG stats. The formula is:

800 + LOG + DIS = Pool

So a character with a LOG and DIS stats of 100 would be able to hold 1000 (800 + 100 + 100) experience in their pool while one with LOG and DIS stats of 75 each would be able to hold 950 (800 + 75 + 75).

Gaining experience

There are a variety of ways to gain experience, only a few of which will be mentioned here.

Hunting

The most common way of gaining experience is hunting. When hunting, experience is gained when a creature one has significantly participated in killing is looted, SEARCHed, or decays on its own.

The amount of experience gained by a character is based on the differential between their own level and the level of the creature killed, as shown here:

Creature Level	Experience Gain
10 or more below character	no experience
1-9 below character	100 - 10x level difference
same as character	100 experience
1-4 above character	100 + 10x level difference
5 or more above character	150 experience

One continues to gain experience in this way until one fills the pool to its limit, which is determined as described above (800-1000). Continued experience-gaining activities will not add to this pool, though as experience is absorbed, it can obviously be replenished.

Multiple characters can gain experience from killing the same creature, and you need not be present when the creature actually dies (though you must still be in-game).

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Guilds

When one is learning an Artisan's Guild skill, such as fletching, forging, or cobbling, one earns experience each time they earn a rank in that skill. This rate is based on the number of ranks of the skill the character already has, as well as other skills known. More detailed information will be available on the Artisan Guild page.

The same is true for the profession guilds.

Experience can also be awarded as part of a reward by the Adventurer's Guild.

Profession-Specific Methods

Empaths can gain experience during the process of transferring wounds from others to themselves. There is no experience granted for transferring blood while the patient is still bleeding, transferring from another empath, or if the wounds are self-inflicted.

Clerics and Paladins can gain experience from raising others from the dead.

Wizards can gain experience when casting Enchant Item (925) successfully, with the amount being variable based on the item's status within the enchanting process, and the level of enchantment.

Rogues (and others) can gain experience when successfully disarming and unlocking treasure boxes.

Bards can gain experience when loresinging, under certain circumstances.

Sorcerers can gain experience when casting Ensorcell (735) successfully.

Exceptions

These rates that are described in the above sections are all ideal rates, and based on the character gaining the experience with a fairly empty unabsorbed pool. As the amount of experience in the unabsorbed pool increases, the efficiency of adding to it decreases. For example, if one were to kill 2 rats at level 1, one would expect to (and would gain) 200 experience. However, if one kills 8 rats, one would add less than 800 experience to the pool. The precise rate of accrual decline is:

ACCRUED = N × (1 - .05 × trunc(InBucket ÷ 100))
Where N = nominal amount, InBucket = amount in bucket, and the final number is truncated.

The bounty system is another exception in that one is able to greatly exceed one's unabsorbed pool capacity. Also, the awards of experience from the bounty system are not subject to the diminishing returns effect described above. However, once the pool is filled, any excess amount added by bounty system reward is divided into two halves. Half is absorbed immediately (and is not subject to any multipliers) and the other half is added to the pool, even though this will be above the normal capacity.

Absorbing experience

Experience absorption is affected by a number of factors, including one's physical location in the game, one's status with regard to a group, and even health.

On-node

• Base rate - When on a node or in town, you will absorb an extra (Logic Bonus/5) experience every pulse.
• Pool size - for every 200 unabsorbed exp in one's pool, one absorbs an extra experience point per pulse
• Group - if you are a member of a group, you get one extra experience point per pulse

In town off-node

• Base rate - a number dictated by one's LOG stat, usually a few lower than the on-node base rate
• Pool size - for every 200 unabsorbed exp in one's pool, one absorbs an extra experience point per pulse
• Group - if you are a member of a group, you get one extra experience point per pulse
• Weapons - carrying a weapon or shield in one's hands decreases the rate of experience absorption

Other areas

• Base rate - you will absorb an extra (Logic Bonus/7) per pulse
• Pool size - for every 200 unabsorbed exp in one's (pool - 200), one absorbs an extra experience point per pulse
• Group - if you are a member of a group, you get one extra experience point per pulse
• Weapons - carrying a weapon or shield in one's hands decreases the rate of experience absorption

The "other" rooms are normally out of town, though strangely, some rooms (such as the courtyard of the Warrior's Guild in Wehnimer's Landing) that are in towns count as if they were out of town.

Other factors

• Injuries - for major head injuries or nerve damage, the rate of experience absorption is severely diminished
• Death's sting - if one has decayed or suffered a spirit death recently, then only a fraction of the experience is absorbed from your pool
• There is no 40 experience per pulse hard cap (which was previously stated here). It is possible to gain 42 experience (or perhaps more) per pulse while saturated (before Gift of Lumnis or other experience multipliers are taken into consideration).

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Mind states

Thresholds for mind-status changes are here as a proportion of (experience in your pool)/(pool capacity).

Phrase	Threshold
Completely saturated	> 1.0
Must rest	0.90
Numbed	0.75
Becoming numbed	0.62
Muddled	0.5
Clear	0.25
Fresh and clear	> 0.0
Clear as a bell	0.0

Therefore, a character with a capacity of 1000 will hit "must rest" above 900 unabsorbed experience.

Experience Per Level

The following information was originally designed and given by Nilandria, but her site has since gone away and been copied below for everyone's use

	GemStone III			GS4
Experience	Level	Exp Required	Avg. Hours	Level	Exp Required	Avg. Hours
2500				1	2500	2.5
5000				2	2500	2.5
10000	1	10000	10	3	5000	5
17500				4	7500	7.5
20000	2	10000	10
27500				5	10000	10
30000	3	10000	10
40000	4	10000	10	6	12500	12.5
50000	5	10000	10
55000				7	15000	15
70000	6	20000	20
72500				8	17500	17.5
90000	7	20000	20
92500				9	20000	20
110000	8	20000	20
115000				10	22500	22.5
130000	9	20000	20
140000				11	25000	25
150000	10	20000	20
167000				12	27500	27.5
180000	11	30000	30
197500				13	30000	30
210000	12	30000	30
230000				14	32500	32.5
240000	13	30000	30
265000				15	35000	35
270000	14	30000	30
300000	15	30000	30
302000				16	37000	37
340000	16	40000	40
341000				17	39000	39
380000	17	40000	40
382000				18	41000	41
420000	18	40000	40
425000				19	43000	43
460000	19	40000	40
470000				20	45000	45
500000	20	40000	40
517000				21	47000	47
550000	21	50000	50
566000				22	49000	49
600000	22	50000	50
617000				23	51000	51
650000	23	50000	50
670000				24	53000	53
700000	24	50000	50
725000				25	55000	55
750000	25	50000	50
781500				26	56500	56.5
800000	26	50000	50
839500				27	58000	58
850000	27	50000	50
899000				28	59500	59.5
900000	28	50000	50
950000	29	50000	50
960000				29	61000	61
1000000	30	50000	50
1022500				30	62500	62.5
1050000	31	50000	50
1086500				31	64000	64
1100000	32	50000	50
1150000	33	50000	50
1152000				32	65500	65.5
1200000	34	50000	50
1219000				33	67000	67
1250000	35	50000	50
1287500				34	68500	68.5
1300000	36	50000	50
1350000	37	50000	50
1357500				35	70000	70
1400000	38	50000	50
1429000				36	71500	71.5
1450000	39	50000	50
1500000	40	50000	50
1502000				37	73000	73
1550000	41	50000	50
1576500				38	74500	74.5
1600000	42	50000	50
1650000	43	50000	50
1652500				39	76000	76
1700000	44	50000	50
1730000				40	77500	77.5
1750000	45	50000	50
1800000	46	50000	50
1808500				41	78500	78.5
1850000	47	50000	50
1888000				42	79500	79.5
1900000	48	50000	50
1950000	49	50000	50
1968500				43	80500	80.5
2000000	50	50000	50
2050000	51	50000	50	44	81500	81.5
2100000	52	50000	50
2132500				45	82500	82.5
2150000	53	50000	50
2200000	54	50000	50
2216000				46	83500	83.5
2250000	55	50000	50
2300000	56	50000	50
2300500				47	84500	84.5
2350000	57	50000	50
2386000				48	85500	85.5
2400000	58	50000	50
2450000	59	50000	50
2472500				49	86500	86.5
2500000	60	50000	50
2550000	61	50000	50
2560000				50	87500	87.5
2600000	62	50000	50
2648000				51	88000	88
2650000	63	50000	50
2700000	64	50000	50
2736500				52	88500	88.5
2750000	65	50000	50
2800000	66	50000	50
2825500				53	89000	89
2850000	67	50000	50
2900000	68	50000	50
2915000				54	89500	89.5
2950000	69	50000	50
3000000	70	50000	50
3005000				55	90000	90
3050000	71	50000	50
3095500				56	90500	90.5
3100000	72	50000	50
3150000	73	50000	50
3186500				57	91000	91
3200000	74	50000	50
3250000	75	50000	50
3278000				58	91500	91.5
3300000	76	50000	50
3350000	77	50000	50
3370000				59	92000	92
3400000	78	50000	50
3450000	79	50000	50
3462500				60	92500	92.5
3500000	80	50000	50
3550000	81	50000	50
3555500				61	93000	93
3600000	82	50000	50
3649000				62	93500	93.5
3650000	83	50000	50
3700000	84	50000	50
3743000				63	94000	94
3750000	85	50000	50
3800000	86	50000	50
3837500				64	94500	94.5
3850000	87	50000	50
3900000	88	50000	50
3932500				65	95000	95
3950000	89	50000	50
4000000	90	50000	50
4028000				66	95500	95.5
4050000	91	50000	50
4100000	92	50000	50
4124000				67	96000	96
4150000	93	50000	50
4200000	94	50000	50
4220500				68	96500	96.5
4250000	95	50000	50
4300000	96	50000	50
4317500				69	97000	97
4350000	97	50000	50
4400000	98	50000	50
4415000				70	97500	97.5
4450000	99	50000	50
4500000	100	50000	50
4513000				71	98000	98
4550000	101	50000	50
4600000	102	50000	50
4611500				72	98500	98.5
4650000	103	50000	50
4700000	104	50000	50
4710500				73	99000	99
4750000	105	50000	50
4800000	106	50000	50
4810000				74	99500	99.5
4850000	107	50000	50
4900000	108	50000	50
4910000				75	100000	100
4950000	109	50000	50
5000000	110	50000	50
5010500				76	100500	100.5
5050000	111	50000	50
5100000	112	50000	50
5111500				77	101000	101
5150000	113	50000	50
5200000	114	50000	50
5213000				78	101500	101.5
5250000	115	50000	50
5300000	116	50000	50
5315000				79	102000	102
5350000	117	50000	50
5400000	118	50000	50
5417500				80	102500	102.5
5450000	119	50000	50
5500000	120	50000	50
5520500				81	103000	103
5550000	121	50000	50
5600000	122	50000	50
5624000				82	103500	103.5
5650000	123	50000	50
5700000	124	50000	50
5728000				83	104000	104
5750000	125	50000	50
5800000	126	50000	50
5832500				84	104500	104.5
5850000	127	50000	50
5900000	128	50000	50
5937500				85	105000	105
5950000	129	50000	50
6000000	130	50000	50
6043000				86	105500	105.5
6050000	131	50000	50
6100000	132	50000	50
6149000				87	106000	106
6150000	133	50000	50
6200000	134	50000	50
6250000	135	50000	50
6255500				88	106500	106.5
6300000	136	50000	50
6350000	137	50000	50
6362500				89	107000	107
6400000	138	50000	50
6450000	139	50000	50
6470000				90	107500	107.5
6500000	140	50000	50
6550000	141	50000	50
6578000				91	108000	108
6600000	142	50000	50
6650000	143	50000	50
6686500				92	108500	108.5
6700000	144	50000	50
6750000	145	50000	50
6795500				93	109000	109
6800000	146	50000	50
6850000	147	50000	50
6900000	148	50000	50
6905000				94	109500	109.5
6950000	149	50000	50
7000000	150	50000	50
7015000				95	110000	110
7050000	151	50000	50
7100000	152	50000	50
7125500				96	110500	110.5
7150000	153	50000	50
7200000	154	50000	50
7236500				97	111000	111
7250000	155	50000	50
7300000	156	50000	50
7348000				98	111500	111.5
7350000	157	50000	50
7400000	158	50000	50
7450000	159	50000	50
7460000				99	112000	112
7500000	160	50000	50
7572500				100	112500	112.5
Total Avg	100	4500000	4500	100	7572500	7572.5

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Resources

• Experience booster
• Instant mind clearer
• Experience (saved posts)
• Experience (saved posts archive)
• Nilandia's site