incarnate XP

[Ukase]

I'm a bit sad that I don't know this. I'm all over the place these days, trying to do things differently, and frankly, to pay more attention. 

So, a character of mine reached level 50. I wanted to have a destiny buff and a lore pet for an MSR, so I burned some threads to unlock Lore and Destiny. Can't burn threads to unlock hybrid for whatever reason. Typically, an MSR will do that. But, whether it was lag, or my team was mostly afk'ers, I don't know. I got to 90%. 

I go to the Abyss and while I'm helping to spawn Hami by killing GMs, I tab back into my Global tab to see how much iXP I'm getting for assisting with the GM kills. None. I scroll up, and I notice that the buds I helped kill did provide incarnate XP. 

Weird. Why the buds, and not the gms? The buds don't even fight back. This is likely some kind of overlooked detail, but these days, who knows? Not this guy. 

But out there reading - one of you is in the circle of knowledge that knows these things. Why no iXP for GMs? 

[tidge]

Aren't Buds "Elite Bosses"? AFAIK, nothing tagged as a Giant Monster (level-less or otherwise) gives incarnate XP.

 

IMO, the standard XP rewards for Giant Monsters are pretty bad, considering the effort. IIRC a typical max XP reward for a single GM defeat maxes out around 60K Inf, so it isn't as if they'd be buckets of Incarnate XP. There can be other rewards for defeating Giant Monsters of course, but Inf is at the bottom of that list.

[Snarky]

I always unlock my Alpha with a farm.  Usually takes just a couple minutes.  Then, I like a kill most ITF which slaps a ton of incarnate exp onto the boards.   I suppose if i was industrious (and most everyone knows i am a lazy bloodsucker…) i would set up an AFK farm for my new 50 while i “looked for donors”, dusted the castle, or otherwise kept myself busy.  But after the Alpha unlocks i really go through a happy period where i just enjoy running whatever on the new 50 and everything unlocks real fast.  

[Ukase]

1 hour ago, tidge said:

Aren't Buds "Elite Bosses"? AFAIK, nothing tagged as a Giant Monster (level-less or otherwise) gives incarnate XP.

 

IMO, the standard XP rewards for Giant Monsters are pretty bad, considering the effort. IIRC a typical max XP reward for a single GM defeat maxes out around 60K Inf, so it isn't as if they'd be buckets of Incarnate XP. There can be other rewards for defeating Giant Monsters of course, but Inf is at the bottom of that list.

Well, for me - I've simply never paid much attention to it. Sometimes, I afk-farm the unlock. In AE, any mob defeat gives hybrid incarnate XP. Not sure why a GM wouldn't. And, also, when doing hami raids, even though I know what to do, I still leave the request tab open and monitor it, so the global stuff, like how much XP and all that is unseen. So, it was just the first time I've noticed it. 

Still, if the mob gives XP and Inf, why wouldn't it give incarnate xp? I'm sure it's just one of those odd things about GMs. It's unlocked now, I just found it odd. Still don't know why they don't give iXP. I'm just wondering if we know a reason. 

[Maagic]

I did a Labyrinth of Fog run a week or so ago on a just-leveled-to-50 alt and that one trial unlocked ALL my slots 🙂

[Ukase]

6 hours ago, Maagic said:

I did a Labyrinth of Fog run a week or so ago on a just-leveled-to-50 alt and that one trial unlocked ALL my slots 🙂

Goddess Laucianne and her wonderful people make the Labyrinth fairly stress free for me. I've gotten more vet levels in there than just about anywhere else. 

[Ridiculous Girl]

the halloween EBs are by far the best for incarnate XP. their base XP is higher than normal EBs already and their incarnate XP is even higher. so if you can wait another month, that's the season to level up your incarnates. 🙂

[Ukase]

No; the labyrinth is a superior place to do that. Or Mapserver event.