XP Cap --- 8,000,000 experience points??? Holy!

Gloomfrost

Right from the new manual

"A Note on the Experience Cap
In the standard campaign for Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, no character may attain
more than 8,000,000 experience points. When deciding the level at which to dual-class
your character, be sure to keep in mind the experience cap. It will limit how your
character advances before the end of the game. "

8MXP point sweet.....but not one HLA in sight

oh well kits dual and multi-class are really going to benefit from this Cap so it's pretty sweet still

i can get to planning characters now!

elminster

Original IWD let classes get up to level 30 and EE is no different.

CutlassJack

From the post in the other thread in case you missed it:

edit: removing Jalily's post since I suspect it may be incorrect now. :P

meagloth

O_o

Jalily

Bah, you guys are too fast. I misremembered it.

Gloomfrost

try these out

https://web.archive.org/web/20130822120401/http://www.planetbaldursgate.com/bg2/character/classes/tables/xpcap.shtml


https://web.archive.org/web/20130820210846/http://www.planetbaldursgate.com/bg2/character/classes/tables/wizwarxp.shtml


https://web.archive.org/web/20130822120357/http://www.planetbaldursgate.com/bg2/character/classes/tables/priestroguexp.shtml

elminster

Jalily was mistaken. It happens. That is the reason why her post disappeared on the other thread (and quite possibly on this one).

I've tested it myself in IWDEE. You can get a level 30/30/30 character with no mods or anything. The cap is 30 regardless of the class. I can't show a screenshot of IWDEE for another 12 hours or so, but if you look in the manual you'll see that thieves for instance only have 30 levels written in for them even though that is only 4.4 million xp (pg 364). The reason being that 8,000,000 total xp might be the limit for some classes (because its around there that they hit level 30), but it isn't for multi-classes or characters like thieves.

Gloomfrost

@elminster thanks for the update


"The cap is 30 regardless of the class. "


just to clarify are you saying we could do a 29/30 dual class?


i was wondering why 30 was the max level in the manual.

elminster

"just to clarify are you saying we could do a 29/30 dual class?"

Yea I've probably said too much already. I think I'm going to play it safe and say that you'll have to wait for the answer to that in 11 hours or so.

Gloomfrost

ok, pretty excited anyways ill pipe down till the games out at least i am preloaded

AlexT

Characters are capped at level 30, exactly as they were was in the original game. The 8 million XP limit is per class, not per character.

Meaning that yes, a level 30/30/30 multi-classed Fighter/Mage/Thief is possible, just like it was in the original game. You would need around 24 million XP for that though, which isn't that easy to reach, even with Heart of Fury mode, unless you're playing solo.

RAM021

Unfortunately dual-class was considered (or at least treated) as if it were a single class with a total XP cap of 8million... preventing those 29/30 splits

solomonhume

RAM021 said:

Unfortunately dual-class was considered (or at least treated) as if it were a single class with a total XP cap of 8million... preventing those 29/30 splits

I don't know if it is true in earlier version, in current version there is no meaningful experience cap, only a level cap of 30. You can dual at 29 and reach 30 in the second class.

elminster

solomonhume said:

RAM021 said:

Unfortunately dual-class was considered (or at least treated) as if it were a single class with a total XP cap of 8million... preventing those 29/30 splits

I don't know if it is true in earlier version, in current version there is no meaningful experience cap, only a level cap of 30. You can dual at 29 and reach 30 in the second class.

IWDEE was patched back in march. So it no longer has the issue RAM021 was describing.

RAM021

elminster said:

solomonhume said:

RAM021 said:

Unfortunately dual-class was considered (or at least treated) as if it were a single class with a total XP cap of 8million... preventing those 29/30 splits

I don't know if it is true in earlier version, in current version there is no meaningful experience cap, only a level cap of 30. You can dual at 29 and reach 30 in the second class.

IWDEE was patched back in march. So it no longer has the issue RAM021 was describing.

We verify this is indeed correct.