Guide: Experience (Exp) and Skill Points (SP) Edited 10/05/2019

[Budesca 114]

 

Good news Everyone !

This is a guide about the experience and levels in lineage II. This guide is made for new players but also the experienced players will find many useful information. The guide shows the experience needed to achieve the different levels and a description of many items, skills and mechanics of how the experience works. I hope you enjoy it. All the information shown in this guide is gathered from the test server.

What is experience? Experience points are the points necessary to level up your character. When you get a certain amount of experience points, your character will achieve the next level. The more level your character is more strong and greater skils it has. The experience points are mostly obtained by hunting mobs. 

And SP? SP means Skill Points. The skill points are the points necessary to learn skills. They are always earned when you earn experience. 

Experience from Level 1 to 60

At this section is shown the total experience needed to achieve the levels 1 to 60 and the experience needed to level up at each level.

Experience table

 

Level: Shows the actual level.  

Total Exp: Shows the total points of experience (Exp) necessary to achieve the actual level. (The experience points you need to level up from level 1 to the selected level).  

Exp to next level: Shows the experience (Exp) necessary to achieve the next level. (The experience points you need to level up from selected level to the next level). 

Level	Total Exp	Exp to next lvl (k)		Level	Total Exp	Exp to next lvl (k)		Level	Total Exp	Exp to next lvl (k)
1	1	0,07		21	1023785	415		41	67818553	11317
2	68	0,30		22	1439215	509		42	79135431	12982
3	364	0,81		23	1948497	620		43	92117896	14868
4	1169	1,72		24	2568850	752		44	106985763	17001
5	2885	3,15		25	3320625	907		45	123986756	19408
6	6039	5,25		26	4227172	1088		46	143394645	22122
7	11288	8,14		27	5315161	1300		47	165516618	25180
8	19424	12,0		28	6614929	1547		48	190696911	28621
9	31379	16,9		29	8161929	1834		49	219317613	32488
10	48230	23,0		30	9995812	2167		50	251805374	36831
11	71203	30,5		31	12162655	2551		51	288635909	41703
12	101678	39,5		32	14713777	2995		52	330338848	47168
13	141194	50,3		33	17708475	3505		53	377507026	53283
14	191455	62,9		34	21213445	4091		54	430790086	60127
15	254331	77,5		35	25304463	4763		55	490916803	67777
16	331868	94,4		36	30067485	5532		56	558693890	76324
17	426289	114		37	35599858	6410		57	635018116	85861
18	540001	136		38	42010312	7411		58	720879370	96501
19	675597	160		39	49421366	8551		59	817380319	108361
20	835864	188		40	57972427	9846		60	925741335	121570

Experience chart

 

 

Experience from Level 61 to 82

At this section is shown the total experience needed to achieve the levels 61 to 82 and the experience needed to level up at each level. Also there is an estimation of the SP earned and the time needed to level up for each level. 

Experience table

 

Level: Shows the actual level.  

Total Exp: Shows the total points of experience (Exp) necessary to achieve the actual level. (The experience points you need to level up from level 1 to the selected level).  

Exp to next level: Shows the experience (Exp) necessary to achieve the next level. (The experience points you need to level up from selected level to the next level). 

Average Exp and SP per mob: Those columns show the average experience (Exp) and skill points (SP) given by killing a normal mob of the selected level. Normal mob means a mob without any skills or reinforcements (like strong P.def, Hit points (HP) x2 or resist arrow). 

Av. mobs need: Assuming that you kill normal mobs of your same lvl alone how many do you need to achieve next level.  

Average SP: The average SP you acquire by levelling up from the actual level to the next one. It assumes the normal ratio of 1 skill point for 37 experience (1/37). Note that this ratio can increase if you go to some dungeons (In Lair of Antharas (LOA) the ratio is aprox. 1/34) or Raid Boss (RB) but also can decrease by using Over-Hit (OH).

Buffs to lvl up: Assuming that you earn 4kk experience on each buff round (20 minutes buff), how many buff rounds do you need to achieve the next level.  

Average hours: Assuming that you make 3 buff rounds each hour, how many hours do you need to achieve the next level. 

Level	Total Exp	Exp to lvl up (M)	Av. Exp per mob	Av. SP per mob	Av. Mobs need	Av. SP (k)	Buffs to lvl up	Av. Hours
61	1047311009	136,3	6698	181	20345	3683	34,1	11
62	1183577349	152,6	6919	187	22056	4125	38,2	13
63	1336187067	170,8	7144	193	23905	4616	42,7	14
64	1506967658	191,0	7373	199	25902	5161	47,7	16
65	1697936136	213,4	7605	206	28057	5767	53,3	18
66	1911306680	238,2	7841	212	30383	6439	59,6	20
67	2149533465	265,8	8080	218	32894	7184	66,4	22
68	2415323168	296,3	8323	225	35602	8009	74,1	25
69	2711646440	330,2	8570	232	38525	8923	82,5	28
70	3041801165	367,6	8820	238	41678	9935	91,9	31
71	3409398455	409,0	9074	245	45077	11055	102,3	34
72	3818421441	454,8	9331	252	48744	12293	113,7	38
73	4273257148	505,5	9592	259	52696	13661	126,4	42
74	4778730308	561,4	9857	266	56958	15174	140,4	47
75	5340152664	623,2	10125	274	61549	16843	155,8	52
76	5963335189	1175,5	10397	281	113061	31769	293,9	98
77	7138805250	2233,4	10672	288	209272	60362	558,3	186
78	9372198366	6700,2	10951	296	611821	181086	1675,0	558
79	16072377713	22333,9	11234	304	2584532	784706	7258,5	2420
80	45106488218	111669,7	11520	311	9693547	3018099	27917,4	9306
81	156776144008	129707,4	11810	319	10983028	3505604	32426,8	10809
82	286483508913

Experience chart

 

 

Bonus Experience and Skill points (SP)

In this section there is a brief description of all the different Bonus and boosts you can get in game for Exp and SP. 

Over-hit Bonus.
When you kill a monster with an skill that has the Over-Hit property you can earn more exp from the kill. The exp increase is proportional to the overkill damage. The maximum exp increase is around 30%. I wont explain in detail how this works. 

Party Bonus: Party size.

 

Nº members	Bonus Exp (%)	Total Exp (%)	Member exp (%)
1	0	100	100
2	20	120	60
3	35	135	45
4	40	140	35
5	55	155	31
6	60	160	27
7	70	170	24
8	80	180	23
9	100	200	22

Clan Bonus: Clan skills and Clan rewards.

 

 Clan Fortune - Lvl. 1:    Clan XP Gain +3%.

 Clan Fortune - Lvl. 2:    Clan XP Gain +6%.

 Clan Fortune - Lvl. 3    Clan XP Gain +10%.

 Clan Unity - Lvl. 1    Clan Alliance Buff. For 3 hours, XP / SP bonus +3%.

 Clan Unity - Lvl. 2    Clan Alliance Buff. For 3 hours, XP / SP bonus +5%, damage received in PvE -2%.

 Clan Unity - Lvl. 3    Clan Alliance Buff. For 3 hours, XP / SP bonus +7%, damage received in PvE -5%.

 Clan Unity - Lvl. 4    Clan Alliance Buff. For 3 hours, XP / SP bonus +10%, PvE damage +7% damage received in PvE -8%.

Clan Bonus: Castle related.

 

Blessing of Light  +3% additional XP and SP. is available to everyone except those who own a Castle of Darkness.

 Castle XP/SP Scroll - Normal
Increases XP/SP gain by 35% for 20 minutes. Buff remains after death.

 Castle XP/SP Scroll - Medium
Increases XP/SP gain by 45% for 20 minutes. Buff remains after death.

Item Bonus: Consumables and Event items. 

 

 XP Rune - 100%
A 2 hour item. When in inventory, your XP and SP gain is increased by 100%. Cannot be exchanged, dropped, or sold. Can be stored in a private warehouse.

 XP/SP Scroll - Low
Increases XP/SP gain by 30% for 20 minutes. Buff remains after death. Cannot be exchanged, dropped, or sold. Can be stored in a private warehouse.

 XP/SP Scroll - Normal
Increases XP/SP gain by 50% for 20 minutes. Buff remains after death. Cannot be exchanged, dropped, or sold. Can be stored in a private warehouse.

 XP/SP Scroll - Medium
Increases XP/SP gain by 70% for 20 minutes. Buff remains after death. Cannot be exchanged, dropped, or sold. Can be stored in a private warehouse.

 XP/SP Scroll - High
Increases XP/SP gain by 100% for 20 minutes. Buff remains after death. Cannot be exchanged, dropped, or sold. Can be stored in a private warehouse.

 Fish Stew. The guild's gratitude.
For 20 min. XP/SP +10% while hunting. Cannot be dropped.

 Santa's Blessing (Winter event 2017-2018)
Santa's Blessing shines upon you. For 20 min XP / SP gain +10%, damage received in PvE - 8%, damage dealt in PvE +7% 

Snowflake (Winter event 2017-2018)
Use it to grant a bonus providing a 3% EXP and 12% SP bonus while hunting. Cannot be exchanged, dropped, or sold. Can be stored in a private warehouse.

  Sun Warmth (Summer event 2017)
Use it to grant a bonus providing a 7% EXP and 7% SP bonus while hunting. 

  Valentine's Cake (Valentine's event 2017) 
Grant a bonus +2% EXP and 14% SP for 20 minutes.

 Golden Egg (Event 2016) 
Consuming this egg will grant a bonus 4% XP and 16% SP gain while hunting.

Penalty Experience and Skill points (SP)

Party Penalty: members level difference.

 

When in party the players with higher level will get more experience than the lower ones (independent of the other penalty's). This table is made for two characters in party assuming that normal exp from a mob is 100% of the exp, 

Lvl diff	% exp		Lvl diff	% exp
15	60,52		0	65,00
14	77,69		-1	64,16
13	76,72		-2	63,31
12	75,76		-3	62,45
11	74,81		-4	61,58
10	73,86		-5	60,70
9	72,93		-6	59,81
8	72,01		-7	58,91
7	71,10		-8	57,99
6	70,19		-9	57,07
5	69,30		-10	16,84
4	68,42		-11	16,56
3	67,55		-12	16,27
2	66,69		-13	15,98
1	65,84		-14	15,69
0	65,00		-15	0,00

The party always earn the same experience if the maximum level difference is 9 or less levels. The table shows how that experience is given to a member depending on the level difference from him and the other party member. (Note that in the experiment only was used 2 party members)

Example 1

 A char lvl 66 with a char lvl 64 in duo party: 66 lvl will get 66,69% of the mob experience and the lvl 64 will get 63,31% of the experience of the mob. Total party exp is 130%.

Example 2

 A char lvl 70 with a char lvl 78 in duo party: 70 lvl will get 57,99% of the mob experience and the lvl 78 will get 72,01% of the experience of the mob. Total party exp is 130%.

Example 3

 A char lvl 67 with a char lvl 78 in duo party: 70 lvl will get 16,56% of the mob experience and the lvl 78 will get 74,81% of the experience of the mob. Total party exp is 91,37%.

Hunting Penalty: mobs level difference.

 

When hunting lower level mobs there is the following experience penalty:

Level Difference	Experience (%)
1	100,00
2	100,00
3	100,00
4	100,00
5	100,00
6	83,33
7	69,44
8	57,87
9	48,23
10	40,19
11	0,00
12	0,00

Death penalty and Resurrection experience recovery

Death Penalty

 

Upon death your character will lose experience points equal to the 4% of the exp necessary to achieve the next level. Therefore there is some exceptions:

Clan War: When you got killed by a member of a clan who has war declared you will loose only 25% of the normal experience lost upon death. (1% of total exp to level up). 

Death's deal certificate 50%
The amount of experience loss while death reduced by 50%. Temporaly item which lasts 1/7/30 days.Can be bought at Nostalgia NPC

Death's deal certificate 80%
The amount of experience loss while death reduced by 80%. Temporaly item which lasts 1/7/30 days. Only from events. 

Resurrection experience recovery

 

You can get back experience after death by getting resurrected by another player:

 Scroll of Resurrection
Magic scroll that resurrects a death character. 

 Blessed Scroll of Resurrection
Magic scroll that resurrects a dead character and restores his or her XP completely.

 Skill: Resurrection
Resurrects a corpse. In addition, restores about 0/20/30/40/50/55/60/65/70% of XP. (Depending on skill level. Also the amount restored can be increased to a maximum of 20% by increasing the WIT stat). 

Clan Halls and Castles can restore experience up to 50% for Clan Halls and 60% for Castles.

Some Skill points experiments 

 

In this section was registered the number of skills that a character learns at each level and the SP cost of each skill. This was made for two classes, Bounty hunter (spoiler) and Swordsinger (SWS). The results were:

Level	Bounty Hunter Skills	Cost per Skill (k)	Total Skills cost (k)		Level	Swordsinger Skills	Cost per Skill (k)	Total Skills cost (k)
40	21	83	1743		40	16	110	1760
41	6	97	582		41	4	130	520
42	7	97	679		42	4	130	520
43	10	97	970		43	8	130	1040
44	7	150	1050		44	4	190	760
45	6	150	900		45	4	190	760
46	10	150	1500		46	7	190	1330
47	6	200	1200		47	4	260	1040
48	6	200	1200		48	4	260	1040
49	9	200	1800		49	8	260	2080
50	7	290	2030		50	4	380	1520
51	6	290	1740		51	4	380	1520
52	9	290	2610		52	8	380	3040
53	6	400	2400		53	4	530	2120
54	7	400	2800		54	4	530	2120
55	9	400	3600		55	10	530	5300
56	7	560	3920		56	4	740	2960
57	6	560	3360		57	4	740	2960
58	9	560	5040		58	8	740	5920
59	6	810	4860		59	4	1100	4400
60	7	810	5670		60	8	1100	8800
61	7	810	5670		61	5	1100	5500
62	10	1000	10000		62	7	1300	9100
63	6	1000	6000		63	4	1300	5200
64	9	1300	11700		64	8	1700	13600
65	6	1300	7800		65	4	1700	6800
66	9	1400	12600		66	6	1900	11400
67	6	1400	8400		67	4	1900	7600
68	8	1900	15200		68	7	2600	18200
69	6	1900	11400		69	4	2600	10400
70	9	2400	21600		70	6	3100	18600
71	6	2400	14400		71	4	3100	12400
72	8	2700	21600		72	8	3600	28800
73	6	2700	16200		73	4	3600	14400
74	11	2700	29700		74	7	3600	25200
		Total	241924				Total	238710

The average SP need to learn all skills from second class is around 240 kk. This is an aproximated ratio of 1 SP point for every 20 experience points (1/20).

 

Edited November 26, 2019 by Budesca

[Stiba007 225]

This is from offic? 

+-23M exp here = 1%  from lvl 77 to 78

[Budesca 114]

This info is gathered from test server

BTW the table says 2233,4 Milion exp to get from 77 to 78, so 1% is like 22,33 Milion exp. 

Thanks for checking.

Edited December 27, 2017 by Budesca

[Stiba007 225]

11 minutes ago, Budesca said:

This info is gathered from test server

BTW the table says 2233,4 Milion exp to get from 77 to 78, so 1% is like 22,33 Milion exp. 

Thanks for checking.

I got it.  My bad. Thx for 

PS: Soon, we will see 79 Beast, some reward for him. 

[Budesca 114]

Up

Edited December 27, 2017 by Budesca

[Budesca 114]

Good News Everyone! 

I finished the guide, enjoy it !

[FryderykChopin 853]

Budesca you're sent from heaven man, again such a top quality guide.

But for completeness you could also mention the legacy XP items like  Sun Warmth (increases EXP/SP gain by 7% for 20 minutes),  Golden Egg (Consuming this egg will grant a bonus 4% XP and 16% SP gain while hunting),  Valentine's Cake (+2% EXP and 14% SP for 20 minutes) etc. (I don't recall all of them, but the first event's rewards were giving only SP so there aren't that many of them)... It doesn't serve much practical use anymore but knowledge is power  Also check the experience curve please, I can't see it 

 

[Rip 697]

On 27.12.2017 at 12:34 AM, Budesca said:

70% for Castles.

On this server it is 60% (in castle descripiton is 70%)

[Budesca 114]

5 hours ago, FryderykChopin said:

Budesca you're sent from heaven man, again such a top quality guide.

But for completeness you could also mention the legacy XP items like  Sun Warmth (increases EXP/SP gain by 7% for 20 minutes),  Golden Egg (Consuming this egg will grant a bonus 4% XP and 16% SP gain while hunting),  Valentine's Cake (+2% EXP and 14% SP for 20 minutes) etc. (I don't recall all of them, but the first event's rewards were giving only SP so there aren't that many of them)... It doesn't serve much practical use anymore but knowledge is power  Also check the experience curve please, I can't see it 

 

Items added to guide. Updated the images, check if you can see them plz. Thanks for the feedback.

[Budesca 114]

27 minutes ago, Rip said:

On this server it is 60% (in castle descripiton is 70%)

Edited on the guide. Thanks for checking. 

[Budesca 114]

Now i'm thinking about some questions not shown at the guide and I invite anyone to answer them. They are: 

• Which is the maximum experience (%) restored upon resurrection?
• Which is the maximum bonus EXP / SP you can get?
• How does, in detail, over-hit work?
• How much EXP / SP you get in raids (How works bonus on raids and CC).
• Someone has any doubt or question? 

Edited December 28, 2017 by Budesca

[Cyane 230]

On 12/26/2017 at 8:34 PM, Budesca said:

 

Level	Total Exp	Exp to lvl up (M)	Av. Exp per mob	Av. SP per mob	Av. Mobs need	Av. SP (k)	Buffs to lvl up	Av. Hours
61	1047311009	136,3	6698	181	20345	3683	34,1	11
62	1183577349	152,6	6919	187	22056	4125	38,2	13
63	1336187067	170,8	7144	193	23905	4616	42,7	14
64	1506967658	191,0	7373	199	25902	5161	47,7	16
65	1697936136	213,4	7605	206	28057	5767	53,3	18
66	1911306680	238,2	7841	212	30383	6439	59,6	20
67	2149533465	265,8	8080	218	32894	7184	66,4	22
68	2415323168	296,3	8323	225	35602	8009	74,1	25
69	2711646440	330,2	8570	232	38525	8923	82,5	28
70	3041801165	367,6	8820	238	41678	9935	91,9	31
71	3409398455	409,0	9074	245	45077	11055	102,3	34
72	3818421441	454,8	9331	252	48744	12293	113,7	38
73	4273257148	505,5	9592	259	52696	13661	126,4	42
74	4778730308	561,4	9857	266	56958	15174	140,4	47
75	5340152664	623,2	10125	274	61549	16843	155,8	52
76	5963335189	1175,5	10397	281	113061	31769	293,9	98
77	7138805250	2233,4	10672	288	209272	60362	558,3	186
78	9372198366	6700,2	10951	296	611821	181086	1675,0	558
79	16072377713	29034,1	11234	304	2584532	784706	7258,5	2420
80	45106488218	111669,7	11520	311	9693547	3018099	27917,4	9306
81	156776144008	129707,4	11810	319	10983028	3505604	32426,8	10809
82	286483508913

Experience chart

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@Budesca Hi

could you upload a chart that shows the rest of levels that are not showed in the second bar chart? (from 78 to 82) using the numbers you got in the table above, to check the difference visually

thank you ?

On 12/26/2017 at 8:34 PM, Budesca said:

Penalty Experience and Skill points (SP)

Party Penalty: members level difference.

When in party the players with higher level will get more experience than the lower ones (independent of the other penalty's). If there is a player higher than 9 levels than you, you will get no experience. 

Here it needs a correction, it would be good to post the first table from this link: https://eu.4gameforum.com/threads/638688/

the lowest lvl no longer earns experience in a party if the highest member of the party is 15 levels above. For each lvl difference you get between 2-3% penalty, but from 9 lv dif to 10 lv dif there is a big drop in xp: from 78% to 23%(+55% more penalty), being that the reason why ppl dont do partys with more lvls difference

Edited May 10, 2019 by Cyane

[Budesca 114]

Thank you for your view! I added experience graphic:

And maked a experience table showing the level difference and the experience earned by the party member (assuming only 2 ppl in party). 

Lvl diff	% exp		Lvl diff	% exp
15	60,52		0	65,00
14	77,69		-1	64,16
13	76,72		-2	63,31
12	75,76		-3	62,45
11	74,81		-4	61,58
10	73,86		-5	60,70
9	72,93		-6	59,81
8	72,01		-7	58,91
7	71,10		-8	57,99
6	70,19		-9	57,07
5	69,30		-10	16,84
4	68,42		-11	16,56
3	67,55		-12	16,27
2	66,69		-13	15,98
1	65,84		-14	15,69
0	65,00		-15	0,00

 

Important ! The party always earn the same experience if the maximum level difference is 9 or less levels. The table shows how that experience is given to a member depending on the level difference from him and the other party member. (Note that in the experiment only was used 2 party members)

Enjoy!

Edited May 10, 2019 by Budesca

[itzCalaMiTY 0]

Awesome topic, may i ask wich are the best spots to lvl up for a newcommer ? Im a lvl 21 monk completely lost running maps. 

[Ovid 17]

Is there a good way to get more SP? I feel like everywhere you look you get XP bonuses, whereas the SP bonuses are crap.

Or does the SP problem solves itself due to higher and higher exp curves, at higher levels?

 

Edited July 31, 2021 by Ovid

[Lafi 100]

4 hours ago, Ovid said:

Or does the SP problem solves itself due to higher and higher exp curves, at higher levels?

this... yes...

[Ovid 17]

3 hours ago, Lafi said:

this... yes...

I sadly thank you.