Experience debt

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Experience debt (negative experience) is a death penalty that scales to approximately 2 or 3 percent of the total XP for a max level player (subject to change based on testing).[1][2][3][4]

We don't have deleveling, instead what we have is experience debt. Now the more experience debt you accrue, the greater the detriment to your character; not to the point where you can not get out of the debt. There will always be a way forward to remove your debt.[3]Steven Sharif
  • Characters accumulate experience debt on death. This does not delevel characters, but does have detrimental effects until the debt is paid off.[3]
Experience debt is the bite of not achieving success. If I die to a monster because my strategy was bad, because my performance was bad, because my planning was bad: all of that means that debt is the cost I pay for the bad choice.[1]Steven Sharif
  • Skill points accrue at specific XP milestones to avoid creating an imbalance with experience debt.[6]
  • Experience debt is paid down by the player gaining experience. This applies even to max-level players. Rested experience will increase the rate that the debt is paid back.[9]
Q: Does experience debt at max level interact with rested experience? So, let's say I have experience at max level, will I be able to use rested experience to gain the experience back?
A: Yes. Rested experience is a modifier that occurs when you first receive the experience and then after that modifier happens where that experience goes to buy down the debt is what happens. So, if you have rested experience and you have experience debt and you go out to collect experience, you will be working that debt off faster because of the rested experience.[9]Steven Sharif

Death penalties

Player death in an open world dungeon in Alpha-1.[10]

We don't have deleveling, instead what we have is experience debt. Now the more experience debt you accrue, the greater the detriment to your character; not to the point where you can not get out of the debt. There will always be a way forward to remove your debt.[3]Steven Sharif

Death penalties (mostly) do not apply to objective-based PvP (also called sanctioned events).[30][31][32][33]

There will not be death penalties applied to event-based deaths. The penalties are in the outcome of the event. So your number of deaths is likely going to impact your ability to win that particular event and that's going to be the penalty. This is it to encourage players to opt in to the events right because the more participation we have the more fun it can be; and we understand that the community at large- there's already a risk versus reward component to these events. We don't need to stack on additional risk versus reward to inhibit kind of- to increase the barrier to entry for players who may not be as interested.[33]Steven Sharif

Non-corrupt players suffer reduced death penalties in naval PvP (open seas) zones.[29]

  • These penalties will be less than those for a green player.[35]
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Skill and stat dampening

Skill and stat dampening penalties are applied when a player dies or when they gain corruption. This causes negative effects, such as a reduction of health and mana.[12][13][14][15][16]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Livestream, April 7, 2023 (40:30).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Livestream, May 28, 2021 (1:50:50).
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Podcast, April 23, 2018 (49:21).
  4. 4.0 4.1 Livestream, May 19, 2017 (13:37).
  5. 5.0 5.1 Ashes of Creation Forums - Former Lineage 2 PvP'er wanting to discuss PvP loopholes.
  6. Livestream, July 28, 2023 (1:03:27).
  7. Livestream, July 28, 2023 (1:01:30).
  8. Livestream, April 28, 2023 (1:22:57).
  9. 9.0 9.1 Livestream, September 29, 2023 (1:18:04).
  10. Livestream, March 28, 2020 (1:58:24).
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 Podcast, May 5, 2017 (43:05).
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Livestream, October 28, 2022 (26:48).
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Livestream, October 28, 2022 (24:28).
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 CC effects do notapply to non-combatants.png
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Podcast, April 23, 2018 (51:31).
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Livestream, May 22, 2017 (42:33).
  17. 17.0 17.1 Interview, February 7, 2021 (13:14).
  18. Interview, July 29, 2020 (16:46).
  19. 19.0 19.1 Livestream, December 2, 2022 (1:26:02).
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  21. Interview, July 18, 2020 (27:11).
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Interview, July 18, 2020 (41:54).
  23. Livestream, November 17, 2017 (35:20).
  24. Interview, May 11, 2018 (15:41).
  25. steven-corruption-gear-drop.png
  26. Interview, April 27, 2017 (9:28).
  27. Livestream, June 25, 2021 (1:15:37).
  28. 28.0 28.1 corruption.jpg
  29. 29.0 29.1 Interview, July 9, 2023 (36:56).
  30. Livestream, February 24, 2023 (1:29:45).
  31. 31.0 31.1 Livestream, June 30, 2022 (1:14:52).
  32. 32.0 32.1 Livestream, August 27, 2021 (1:22:56).
  33. 33.0 33.1 Livestream, December 22, 2020 (1:13:51).
  34. Livestream, May 15, 2017 (36:23).
  35. Interview, July 9, 2023 (38:03).
  36. steven-corruption-value.png
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  38. Interview, August 24, 2018 (8:35).
  39. Interview, May 11, 2018 (5:05).