Experience while Shrouded (DoD)Follow

OK, I admit it - I got a bit greedy and decided to experiment with power-leveling myself as a shrouded level 5 critter, using stacks of potions and working the fields of Qeynos Hills. I killed LOADS of rats that conned yellow to me, and each time it said I was getting experience. However, when I went back to "normal" form, it did not show any change in my XP levels under either AA or regular XP. So, that little experiment did not work.

But this started me thinking - how does XP work while shrouded? Do you simply not get any when you play toons that are lower level? Or, does the XP only kick in when you are grouped (or grouped with people who actually ARE that lower level)? I considered that perhaps SOE made this the case to prevent people from doing what I had tried: Soloing lowbie mobs who die easy.

I am still a bit concerned because if you don't get XP while shrouded at all, I'm not sure I would want to do that. I realize that the main purpose of the shroud/level alternatives is so that you can group with your friends, but if I was not getting any XP at all, I would think twice about doing it.

Anyone investigated this further?

I don't know for sure but I think this is how it's setup:

A lvl 10 mob gives 100 experience points.
A lvl 70 mob gives 10,000 experience points.

Now let's say you need 1,000,000 more points to get to the next lvl.

You could kill 100 70 lvl mobs and get 1,000,000. Or you could shroud and kill 10,000 lvl 10 mobs and get 1,000,000. You are getting xp in shroud form. However it's not as much as you would expect. This makes sense though because the other way would'nt be right. A lvl 70 toon could just shroud in easy zones like Paludal, Crushbone, etc. Your thinking that the experience scales, when it really shouldn't. Just because you get 5% xp on higher mobs doesn't mean you should get 5% xp in shroud on lower mobs.

However I'm not sure how the xp affects the actual shroud. I'm not that interested in shrouds and don't use them that much.

I spent about 2 hours in shroud with a few friends. When i went into shroud form I set my aa xp to 100%. My buddies and i headed to kurns tower to mess around. Once it was all over i netted about half a bub of aa xp. so it wasn't outrageous but it was good enough to make it a bit of fun hanging out with lowbie friends for a while. I also gained 4% on shroud progression.

Your level 55 in the BB freeport MM. I have found it is not worth the trouble trying to level shrouds. At higher levels (60+) Shrouds are WAY too weak to really be valuable members of a group. I mean I shrouded into a 65 goblin rogue and played in Lowerguk abit. I alsomost died to 3 green frogloks as where a normal charactor would be fine.

I have used the shrouds to jump in lower level LDON's, but otherwise I don't use them. They take WAY too long to level IMO. I didn't work to earn all my AA's and gear so that I could turn into a wimpy monster and have to play for days to level a shroud. I think they should scale the power of the monster you turn into based on your AA's and gear myself.

"Your level 55 in the BB freeport MM"


is this true? so lower lvl players actualy get "raised" in lvl to play?

i am pretty sure we did one with a lvl 43.... so i "assumed" it made us all lower lvl.

The monster missions have pre-determined characters. They are whatever level they are for this mission. The BB Pirate mission is all level 55 toons. The Stonebrunt mission is level 25 toons.

It really doesn't matter much in the end, as your main toon will get the same amount of XP no matter when level you were in the mission.