How does experience work?Follow

Meaning do all Dark Blue mobs all give you the same amount of experience, or does the amount of experience given depend on the mob itself and not necessarily the conned color?

There have been changes over the years but my understanding of how it works now is this:

Exp gained is dependent on the level of the mob. Mobs can be dark blue and give different exp due to their different levels. By the time you see some turning light blue you have been getting poor exp from the dark blues for a while.

I believe that mobs of the same level give the same exp regardless of difficulty.

There are multipliers to reduce exp for light blue and increase for yellow and red. There is a limit however so that if you somehow killed a level 50 mob at level 10 you don't suddenly gain several levels.

According to a document I discovered long ago the amount of exp earned is split amongst the group in proportion to their level. This can work for or against you.

I've just come out of an LDoN where the 50 enchanter made 28% in a dungeon with a 55 cleric, 54 rogue and 52 Paladin. The Rogue made 11%. Much of the difference is due to the enchanter seeing mobs as yellow that were dark blue to the rogue.

I've also been "low man" in groups where my exp barely moved and everyone else was saying how great the exp was.

You'd still have to take in experience modifiers like zone, number and levels of players in group.

I have a UI that shows my experience in percentages. It doesn't take long to figure out how much experience you're getting per mob in any given situation.