Monthly Archive for April, 2010

4.3.2. If It’s Not Yours, Don’t Touch
Some games are designed to reward all the experience to the person that lands the killing
blow on a monster. In Camelot, experience is rewarded to everyone that had a hand in
dealing damage (or healing damage dealt to someone dealing damage) toward killing the
monster. The only benefit gained from landing the killing blow is the right to pick up any
loot the monster may drop. In most cases, there is nothing but a few coin to be gained
from this. Add into the fact that this particular behavior is explicitly forbidden by Mythic,
and a lot of people are not afraid to report it makes "kill stealing" a very frowned-on
practice. I don’t recommend it.

The NOHELP flag
A side-step to the "kill steal" method some have used to earn experience in the past was
to sit aside and heal someone else while they were killing a monster. There is a flag that
was introduced to specifically combat this practice, /nohelp – it prevents anyone from
healing, buffing or generally "helping" someone while they are playing.

4.3.1. Protect Your Cleric!
 

Do this always! In both the literal sense – if you’re

a class that has the Protect ability, use

it. The ability transfers monster hate from the

target to yourself, and monsters hate

healers. Also, keep an eye on the cleric. Don’t

assume everything is allright. If

something is beating on your healer, kill it, get it

off, stop it, stun it, do something, and do it

fast. Trust me, you’ll be better off for it.

Caster/CC Group
A Caster or CC (crowd control) group is usually what ends up happening in Albion, as it’s
one of the slower-paced methods for gaining experience, though very steady, and very
safe. Essentially, a group of monsters are pulled, and one of the casters in the group will
use various forms of crowd control to stop the monsters while everyone concentrates
dealing damage to one monster at a time. Usually, a "tank" will break the CC on one
monster, hit it a few times and then the casters and other melee in the group will kill it.
Some things to remember when you’re in a CC or Caster group:

PBAE Group
A PBAE (point-blank area effect) group relies on a PBAE caster, usually an Ice Wizard,
but could also be a Death Servant Necromancer to deal a vast majority of the damage to
the monsters. Any melees in the group are responsible for keeping the monsters off the
caster and healers, but as close to the caster as possible, as PBAE is most powerful right
on top of the caster.
Some key points to remember when playing in a PBAE group:

Like just about every other game in the genre, to gain levels, you must earn experience.
Killing monsters is the original (though not the only way) to earn "XP" (experience).
There’s a lot talk this way or that on what makes the best XP in the game. Camelot is
originally designed to almost force players to group together to be effective, in Albion
especially. There are very few classes that can solo well. What I’ll do here is take a brief
moment and focus on how the experience earned is distributed, solo, or in a group
dynamic, across levels and more. It’s important to know, if you want to truly manage to
level quickly.
Splitting the Experience vs. Hitting Your Cap
I won’t begrudge you with mathematics (here), but boil down earning experience into a
few bullet points.