Talk:Experience Points/@comment-174.61.159.70-20140310222628

This page's information is incorrect when it comes to how pawns affect your XP gain. It is NOT evenly split! Having a main pawn doesn't mean you'll get 1/2 the XP as you would solo, and having 1 pawn doens't mean you get 1/2 the XP you would having a full party.

Your XP isn't divided by how many pawns you have - rather you get a bonus for each Pawn you do NOT have. Its the only way the math works out. So, the base XP for each enemy is how much you'll get with a full party of 4 (3 pawns and you). You'll notice that all the XP numbers are nice and even in this case compared to what you'll see when solo. For each Pawn you DON'T have, you get a 20% bonus to XP, but this calculation is re-done for each Pawn - thus if you are solo its not 60% extra XP, its about 72.8% extra XP.

To demonstrate:

For an enemy that gives 100xp:

3 Pawns = 100xp

2 Pawns = 100 x 1.2 = 120xp

1 Pawns = 100 x 1.2 = 120 x 1.2 = 144xp

0 Pawns = 100 x 1.2 = 120 x 1.2 = 144 x 1.2 = 172.8 xp (shows as 173xp).

You'll notice that the xp you get from enemies with a full party is nice even numbers, whereas when less than full the numbers are weird like shown above. That's how you can tell that the xp was based on a full party of 4, and then gives bonus xp for having less pawns.