Experience

In order to level a character up it is necessary to get more experience. Currently there is only one source for experience in this game, which is killing monsters. Every monster gives a fixed amount of experience. The amount of experience a monster gives depends on its rarity and the difficulty you're playing on. The amount for the next level increases very fast.

Experience table

The total experience required to reach each level, displayed in a graph.

The amount is the same for every character in every league. The number shows how much total experience is necessary to reach the level.

Level	Total XP	XP to Gain		Level	Total XP	XP to Gain
1	0	525		51	60,565,335	6,528,910
2	525	1,235		52	67,094,245	7,153,414
3	1,760	2,021		53	74,247,659	7,827,968
4	3,781	3,403		54	82,075,627	8,555,414
5	7,184	5,002		55	90,631,041	9,353,933
6	12,186	7,138		56	99,984,974	10,212,541
7	19,324	10,053		57	110,197,515	11,142,646
8	29,377	13,804		58	121,340,161	12,157,041
9	43,181	18,512		59	133,497,202	13,252,160
10	61,693	24,297		60	146,749,362	14,441,758
11	85,990	31,516		61	161,191,120	15,731,508
12	117,506	39,878		62	176,922,628	17,127,265
13	157,384	50,352		63	194,049,893	18,635,053
14	207,736	62,261		64	212,684,946	20,271,765
15	269,997	76,465		65	232,956,711	22,044,909
16	346,462	92,806		66	255,001,620	23,950,783
17	439,268	112,027		67	278,952,403	26,019,833
18	551,295	133,876		68	304,972,236	28,261,412
19	685,171	158,538		69	333,233,648	30,672,515
20	843,709	187,025		70	363,906,163	33,287,878
21	1,030,734	218,895		71	397,194,041	36,118,904
22	1,249,629	255,366		72	433,312,945	39,163,425
23	1,504,995	295,852		73	472,476,370	42,460,810
24	1,800,847	341,805		74	514,937,180	46,024,718
25	2,142,652	392,470		75	560,961,898	49,853,964
26	2,535,122	449,555		76	610,815,862	54,008,554
27	2,984,677	512,121		77	664,824,416	58,473,753
28	3,496,798	583,857		78	723,298,169	63,314,495
29	4,080,655	662,181		79	786,612,664	68,516,464
30	4,742,836	747,411		80	855,129,128	74,132,190
31	5,490,247	844,146		81	929,261,318	80,182,477
32	6,334,393	949,053		82	1,009,443,795	86,725,730
33	7,283,446	1,064,952		83	1,096,169,525	93,748,717
34	8,384,398	1,192,712		84	1,189,918,242	101,352,108
35	9,541,110	1,333,241		85	1,291,270,350	109,524,907
36	10,874,351	1,487,491		86	1,400,795,257	118,335,069
37	12,361,842	1,656,447		87	1,519,130,326	127,813,148
38	14,018,289	1,841,143		88	1,646,943,474	138,033,822
39	15,859,432	2,046,202		89	1,784,977,296	149,032,822
40	17,905,634	2,265,837		90	1,934,009,687	160,890,604
41	20,171,471	2,508,528		91	2,094,900,291	173,648,795
42	22,679,999	2,776,124		92	2,268,549,086	187,372,170
43	25,456,123	3,061,734		93	2,455,921,256	202,153,736
44	28,517,857	3,379,914		94	2,658,074,992	218,041,909
45	31,897,771	3,723,676		95	2,876,116,901	235,163,399
46	35,621,447	4,099,570		96	3,111,280,300	253,547,862
47	39,721,017	4,504,444		97	3,364,828,162	273,358,532
48	44,225,461	4,951,099		98	3,638,186,694	294,631,836
49	49,176,560	5,430,907		99	3,932,818,530	317,515,914
50	54,607,467	5,957,868		100	4,250,334,444	0

Death

In default leagues, loss of experience is incurred upon death. The penalty is a percentage of the total required for the next level and is applied as follows:

• 0% loss in normal difficulty
• 5% loss in cruel difficulty
• 10% loss in merciless difficulty

Losing experience in this way will not cause you to lose a level.

In player-versus-player battles, the experience penalty does not apply. Likewise, a hardcore character that dies in PvP will not be lost.

Experience penalties

Experience penalties at varying character and monster levels.

The player suffers a penalty to experience gained if the player is too far above or below the monster's level. There is a safe level range where no penalty is applied, which is equal to three plus one for every sixteen complete player levels:

$\color[RGB]{163,141,109} \text{SafeZone} = \left \lfloor 3 + \frac{\text{PlayerLevel} }{16} \right \rfloor$

For example, a level 24 character has a safe zone of 4 levels. Any additional level difference in excess of this safe range is the effective level difference. So from monster level 20 to 28, there is an effective difference of 0; at monster levels 19 and 29, the effective difference is 1.

$\color[RGB]{163,141,109} \text{EffectiveDifference} = \max\left( | \text{PlayerLevel} - \text{MonsterLevel} | - \text{SafeZone}, 0 \right)$

A monster at a certain level will give a certain amount of Monster Experience. If the player is outside the safe zone the following multiplier will be applied to the raw experience earned from the monster, with a minimum of 1% of the raw experience:

For player levels below 95:

$\color[RGB]{163,141,109} \text{XPMultiplier} = \max\left( \left({\text{PlayerLevel} + 5 \over \text{PlayerLevel} + 5 + \text{EffectiveDifference}^{2.5} }\right)^{1.5}, 0.01 \right)$

For player levels equal to or higher than 95:

$\color[RGB]{163,141,109} \text{XPMultiplier} = \max\left( \left({\text{PlayerLevel} + 5 \over \text{PlayerLevel} + 5 + \text{EffectiveDifference}^{2.5} }\right)^{1.5} * {1 \over 1 + 0.1 * (\text{PlayerLevel} - 94)}, 0.01 \right)$

Continuing our example, a level 24 character receives 95% experience for level 19 monsters, 52.5% experience for level 17 monsters, and 20% experience for level 15 monsters.

The plot below displays how the experience penalty varies with different zone and player levels. Notice that the safe zone with no experience penalty gets larger with higher player levels and that near max level it is impossible to play with no experience penalty.

By following the safe zone recommendations for each player level a high experience gained per map ratio is guaranteed. However that does not necessarily mean it is the most efficient use of a players time. For example the difficulty in the safe zone might be too high leading to the map being cleared slowly and a low experience gained per hour even if the experience gained per map is high. Therefore to level efficiently a high experience gained per hour is necessary, not staying inside the safe zone of the experience penalty.

Areas with monster level above 70 are considered to have a lower monster level for the purpose of experience penalty calculations. This has no effect on the stats of the monsters in the area or the loot that those monsters drop.

Monster level	Map tier	Effective monster level
70	3	70
71	4	70.94
72	5	71.82
73	6	72.64
74	7	73.40
75	8	74.10
76	9	74.74
77	10	75.32
78	11	75.84
79	12	76.30
80	13	76.70
81	14	77.04
82	15	77.32
83	N/A	77.54
84	N/A	77.70

Party play

Base experience per monster for players is the same as if they were playing solo, meaning a monster with 1000 base experience in solo play will have a base experience of 6000 in a party of 6, but the final amount received to the player's depends on player's level relative to other party members and monsters.

The usual experience penalty that can come from monster level applies, but experience is also redistributed to higher level characters. This is intended to balance the high experience requirements at higher levels. Monsters experience is awarded only to nearby (roughly two screens) party members.

Player X's "share" of the experience gained is (PlayerLevel+10)^2.71 divided by the sum of all, n, player's shares:

$\color[RGB]{163,141,109} \text{PercentualShare}_x = \frac{(\text{PlayerLevel}_x + 10)^{2.71} }{\sum\limits_{i=1}^n{((\text{PlayerLevel}_i + 10)^{2.71} })}$

For example, if a level 10 player was partied with a level 30 player:

• Level 10 player's share: (10+10)^2.71 = 3355
• Level 30 player's share: (30+10)^2.71 = 21957
• Total "Shares": 3356 + 21957 = 25313

Percentual Share of experience:

• Level 10 player would receive: (10+10)^2.71 / ((10+10)^2.71 + (30+10)^2.71) = 3355/25313 = 0.132 = 13.2% of the XP
• Level 30 player would receive: (30+10)^2.71 / ((10+10)^2.71 + (30+10)^2.71) = 21957/25313 = 0.867 = 86.7% of the XP

The table below shows the players "share" from level 1 to 100.

Level	Share	Level	Share	Level	Share	Level	Share	Level	Share
1	664	21	11,005	41	42,414	61	103,970	81	203,705
2	840	22	11,993	42	44,706	62	107,986	82	209,828
3	1,044	23	13,036	43	47,074	63	112,099	83	216,067
4	1,276	24	14,135	44	49,520	64	116,310	84	222,421
5	1,538	25	15,290	45	52,045	65	120,619	85	228,892
6	1,833	26	16,503	46	54,649	66	125,027	86	235,480
7	2,160	27	17,775	47	57,335	67	129,535	87	242,187
8	2,522	28	19,107	48	60,102	68	134,145	88	249,013
9	2,920	29	20,501	49	62,951	69	138,857	89	255,959
10	3,355	30	21,957	50	65,885	70	143,672	90	263,026
11	3,830	31	23,477	51	68,903	71	148,591	91	270,215
12	4,344	32	25,061	52	72,008	72	153,615	92	277,527
13	4,900	33	26,711	53	75,199	73	158,745	93	284,963
14	5,500	34	28,428	54	78,477	74	163,982	94	292,523
15	6,143	35	30,213	55	81,845	75	169,326	95	300,208
16	6,832	36	32,068	56	85,302	76	174,779	96	308,019
17	7,568	37	33,992	57	88,851	77	180,342	97	315,959
18	8,352	38	35,988	58	92,490	78	186,015	98	324,024
19	9,185	39	38,056	59	96,223	79	191,799	99	332,220
20	10,069	40	40,198	60	100,049	80	197,695	100	340,544

Items that alter experience gain

#invoke: Item table

Miscellaneous

Killing monsters that were raised from the dead by any means (revived by Necromancers, Soul Conduit Nemesis Mod, the reviving Strongbox affix) gives no additional experience. Player-summoned minions and monsters spawned by other monsters (ex:sirens) also award no experience. Beyond demonss, and monsters from Strongboxes do give experience, however. Attackers in Elreon missions give experience only if a certain number of monsters wasn't killed in that mission before (about 170).

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.0	Players at very high levels (95 and higher) now incur an additional experience penalty equal to 1 - ( 1 / ( 1 + 0.1 * ( level - 94 ) ) ). For example, a level 96 player receives 16.67% less experience than before.
2.3.0	The experience penalty for higher levels is now slightly higher. The penalty starts taking effect a few levels earlier than it previously did.
2.0.0	Previously, the most that experience could be penalised to was 2% of the monster's normal experience. This value has been reduced to 1%. This is to encourage players to run content appropriate for their high level.

See also

• Monster experience
• Gem experience

External links

• Experience penalty calculator