Experience

Experience

Experience, or experience points (XP), measures a player character's life experience and progression through the game. It is primarily accrued by defeating enemies and completing missions.

Experience Requirements Table

This table indicates the experience requirements for each level in both City of Heroes and City of Villains.

Level	Incremental	Cumulative	Level	Incremental	Cumulative
1	n/a	0	26	85,200	446,119
2	106	106	27	108,000	554,119
3	337	443	28	135,000	689,119
4	582	1,025	29	166,650	855,769
5	800	1,825	30	203,400	1,059,169
6	1,237	3,062	31	254,000	1,313,169
7	1,575	4,637	32	314,600	1,627,769
8	1,950	6,587	33	386,400	2,014,169
9	2,680	9,267	34	470,600	2,484,769
10	3,125	12,392	35	571,200	3,055,969
11	3,600	15,992	36	701,500	3,757,469
12	4,995	20,987	37	854,700	4,612,169
13	6,405	27,392	38	1,036,600	5,648,769
14	7,400	34,792	39	1,250,200	6,898,969
15	9,093	43,885	40	1,502,550	8,401,519
16	11,184	55,069	41	1,692,900	10,094,419
17	13,000	68,069	42	1,907,550	12,001,969
18	15,950	84,019	43	2,150,550	14,152,519
19	19,200	103,219	44	2,421,900	16,574,419
20	23,400	126,619	45	2,729,700	19,304,119
21	28,000	154,619	46	3,078,000	22,382,119
22	36,000	190,619	47	3,470,850	25,852,969
23	45,000	235,619	48	3,912,300	29,765,269
24	56,000	291,619	49	4,410,450	34,175,719
25	69,300	360,919	50	4,973,400	39,149,119
Veteran Levels require 5,608,000 XP for each level

Experience Rewards

A character receives experience rewards for defeating an enemy based on their actual experience level relative to the defeated enemy's level. Some critters have a Reward Scale multiplier that increases or decreases the amount of XP rewarded depending upon the difficulty of the critter. Defeating an enemy whose level is higher than your character's will grant the character more XP. Defeating a lower level enemy, less XP.

A player may completely turn off all experience gain for a character in Options (Menu --> Options --> General Tab --> Disable Earning XP).

Experience Boosts

There are several ways a player may boost their character's experience gain:

• A character that has accrued Patrol Experience will receive a 50% boost in XP until the Patrol XP runs out.
• The P2W vendors in Atlas Park, Mercy Island, and Nova Praetoria offer various experience boosters as a gift from the game developers
• Certain temporary powers

Experience Distribution and Team Bonuses

The experience that a character gets while on a team is affected by the team's size and by their level relative to the enemies. Larger teams get a higher XP multiplier, but the rewards also get split more ways. Players on teams will receive less XP per critter, but the increased number of mobs and speed of defeats usually results in a greater total amount of XP by the end of a standard mission. A character who is sidekicked, and hence one combat level below that of the team leader, will receive experience based on their actual level and not their boosted level.

Mission completion experience is affected only by the character's actual level relative to the mission's. The full amount is awarded to each team member individually, with no split or weighting.

Calculating Experience Rewards

The experience awarded by defeating an enemy is calculated using a base experience table and several multipliers. The standard formula for this is:

(Base XP x Reward Scale x Level Bonus x Team Size Bonus ÷ Team Size)

and the result is rounded up. After this, any additional multipliers are factored in (such as XP boosters, Patrol XP, etc.), and the final result is rounded down (drop off the decimals).

Base Experience Rewards Table

These are the base experience reward values for each rank and level of critter. If playing solo, simply reference the level and rank of the enemy to get the critter's Base XP. For sidekicked characters on a team, the referenced enemy level is reduced to the player character's actual level plus the difference between the boosted combat level and the enemy level (enemy level + actual level - sidekicked level). If the enemy is one level greater than the boosted level, the referenced enemy level will be one above the character's actual level. For example, a level 10 character is sidekicked to level 19 by a level 20 mentor and defeats a level 21 enemy (21+10-19=12). The level referenced for the base XP would be 12.

Level Minion Lieutenant Boss 1 10 33 100 2 10 33 100 3 10 33 100 4 10 33 100 5 13 43 132 6 14 48 144 7 16 55 168 8 18 60 180 9 19 63 192 10 20 67 204 11 24 79 240 12 30 99 300 13 36 120 360 14 44 147 444 15 51 171 516 16 52 175 528 17 55 183 552 18 56 187 564 19 57 192 576 20 60 199 600 21 61 204 612 22 62 207 624 23 72 240 720 24 82 276 828 25 96 320 960

Level Minion Lieutenant Boss 26 110 366 1100 27 127 423 1270 28 146 486 1460 29 169 563 1690 30 210 700 2100 31 240 800 2400 32 274 913 2740 33 312 1040 3120 34 353 1176 3530 35 429 1430 4290 36 484 1613 4840 37 546 1820 5460 38 658 2193 6580 39 792 2376 7128 40 892 2527 7582 41 974 2597 7792 42 1063 2657 7972 43 1198 2795 8386 44 1351 2927 8781 45 1524 3048 9144 46 1719 3438 10314 47 1938 3876 11628 48 2185 4370 13110 49 2464 4928 14784 50 2779 5558 16674

Reward Scale

This is the difficulty level of the enemy, typically based on the enemy's stats. The vast majority of critters in the game have a reward scale of 1, essentially no bonus. The Reward Scale bonuses can be found on the Reward scale page.

Level Bonus

The Level Bonus is based on the difference in levels between the player character and the defeated enemy.

When a character's level is BELOW the enemy's level, their xp and inf are increased:
Level Difference	Level Bonus
0	1
-1	1.2
-2	1.4
-3	1.6
-4	1.8
When a character's level is ABOVE the enemy's level, their xp and inf are decreased.
Level Difference	Level Bonus
0	1
+1	0.8
+2	0.6
+3	0.4
+4	0.2
+5	0

Team Size Bonus

Every character on a team receives a bonus based on the number of members on the team. More teammates means a bigger bonus.

Team Size Bonus 1 1 2 1.25 3 1.5 4 1.8 5 2 6 2.1 7 2.2 8 2.5 9 2.728125 10 2.9403125 11 3.137313438 12 3.319848038 13 3.488606979 14 3.644252522 15 3.787419585 16 3.918716797 17 4.038727499 18 4.148010714 19 4.247102081 20 4.336514756 21 4.416740279 22 4.488249408 23 4.551492922 24 4.606902401 25 4.654890968

Team Size Bonus 26 4.695854008 27 4.730169864 28 4.758200501 29 4.780292146 30 4.796775912 31 4.807968389 32 4.814172219 33 4.815676648 34 4.812758056 35 4.805680471 36 4.794696058 37 4.780045598 38 4.761958939 39 4.740655438 40 4.716344385 41 4.689225405 42 4.659488853 43 4.627316192 44 4.592880351 45 4.556346075 46 4.517870264 47 4.47760229 48 4.435684311 49 4.392251569 50 4.347432675

Examples

The standard experience forumla is (Base XP x Reward Scale x Level Bonus x Team Size Bonus ÷ Team Size) rounded up.

If a level 15 solo character defeats a level 14 Skull Bone Daddy boss then (444 x 1.4 x 0.8 x 1 ÷ 1) = 497.28 --> rounds up to 498 XP.

If a level 20 character is sidekicked to level 29 by a level 30 mentor on a team of 4 and defeats a level 31 Crey Elite Security Agent lieutenant then the base XP level would be (31+20-29)=22, so (207 x 1 x 1.4 x 1.8 ÷ 4) = 130.41 --> rounds up to 131 XP.

TIP: Patrol XP is ridiculously easy to accrue. Make sure to check and factor it in if your character had Patrol XP.

Historical

The following section contains information that does not apply to the current version of Homecoming: City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes only.

The level bonuses for characters that were BELOW enemies' level were revised in Issue 25. Prior to Issue 25 the level bonuses were:

When a character's level is BELOW the enemy's level, their xp and inf are increased:
Level Difference	Level Bonus
0	1
-1	1.2
-2	1.4
-3	1.65
-4	1.9
-5	2.00

Issue 16 (September 15, 2009) saw a complete overhaul of the sidekicking system. Prior to this, multiple players on a single team were able to have their own sidekicks. This meant that there could potentially be 8 characters on a team, all with different levels. In order to balance rewards for a team with varying levels, the developers created a system that defined a set of "weights" on the basis of the "max combat level" of the team (i.e. a value between the minimum level and maximum level of a team). A team's max combat level was then used to reference a multiplier to weigh or adjust the splitting up of experience and influence.

See Also

• Veteran Levels
• Debt
• Patrol Experience
• Custom XP Rates