Experience

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Attribute Unit Animation Attack Damage Death Corpse Experience Life After Each Kill Mana After Each Kill Extra Gold Better Chance of Magic Rest in Peace Reanimate Chance to Cast When You Die When You Kill an Enemy When You Level-up Player character and mercenary gain experience when monsters are killed. When the character gains enough experience to gain a level there is an audible 'ding', stamina, life and mana are set to maximum and the New Stats and New Skills buttons will appear to the left and right respectively on the interface bar at the bottom of the screen (or in the bottom left and right corners of the screen at 640x480 resolution). Clicking on these buttons will bring up the character and skill tree screens to allocate attribute and skill points. Each level gained allows the player character to allocate five attribute points and one skill point. Current experience and experience required to gain next level are displayed on both the character screen and the interface bar (when the cursor is held over the experience meter). Points do not need to be allocated upon level up, but doing so is recommended. Attribute points are allocated by clicking on one of the buttons to the right of each of the four attributes on the character screen; a single click will allocate a single point, while a single click while holding down the Shift key will allocate all remaining points to the selected attribute. Skill points are allocated by clicking on a highlighted skill icon on one of the three skill tree tabs on the skill tree screen; they can only be allocated if the character is the required level, has all required skills and has invested less than 20 points in the skill (otherwise the icon is greyed out). Attribute and skill point allocation cannot be undone without re-specialising. Character also gains stamina, life and mana with each level,depending on class: Attribute Amazon Assassin Barbarian Druid Necromancer Paladin Sorceress Stamina +1 +1.25 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 Life +2 +2 +2 +1.5 +1.5 +2 +1 Mana +1.5 +1.5 +1 +2 +2 +1.5 +2 Displayed stamina, life and mana values are rounded down to the nearest point, but actual life and mana are rounded down to the nearest 1/256 point. Chance to hit of character, mercenary, pets and monsters is also affected by level, as is the character's chance of blocking in Expansion games. Character gains same experience from kills made by mercenary, pets and monsters that have been temporarily realigned (whether mind blasted, converted, confused or attracted), revived or reanimated, although no experience is gained if they themselves are killed (with the exception of those cursed with Attract). Character gains experience from killed made by returned damage of any kind, unless applied to a monster attacking a Bone Prison. Experience is only gained from the first kill in the case of monsters that can be resurrected, although it is gained from subsequent kills of Reanimated Horde. Experience is gained separately from a Tentacle Beast's head and two tentacles: killing its head will not gain experience from its tentacles, even though doing so kills them all. Experience is gained when a Suicide Minion is killed, but not on its suicide. Experience is not gained from killing the following: Players Mercenaries Pets Barricades Barricaded Doors Barricaded Towers Prison Doors Diablo's bone prisons Baal's Festering Appendages * Hungry Dead spawned by Blood Raven Blood Hawks spawned by Blood Hawk Nests Mummies spawned by Sarcophagi Sand Maggot Young spawned by Sand Maggot Eggs Sand Maggot Eggs spawned by Sand Maggots Sand Maggots spawned by Coldworm the Burrower Vile Children spawned by Vile Mothers Demon Imps spawned by Evil Demon Huts Ice Spawn spawned by Nihlathak Experience is gained from killing a Pain Worm after killing its host. Base experience gained from each kill varies depending on difficulty level, monster level and monster type: Base experience = [MonLvl * MonStats/100] [1] MonLvl values for the relevant difficulty and base monster level (no Champion or Unique bonus) [2] are modified by percentage values stored in the MonStats.txt file, which vary depending on monster type. Experience gained is further modified by other factors, in the order listed on this page. Player count As the number of players in a game increases, so does the experience gained from kills: Players Experience 1 100% (*1).0 2 150% (*1.5) 3 200% (*2).0 4 250% (*2.5) 5 300% (*3).0 6 350% (*3.5) 7 400% (*4).0 8 450% (*4.5) Monster bonus Some monster bonuses increase experience gained upon their death: Monster Experience Mlvl Champion 300% (*3) +2 Fanatic 300% (*3) +2 Ghostly 300% (*3) +2 Possessed 300% (*3) +2 Berserker 500% (*5) +3 Unique 500% (*5) +3 Super Unique 500% (*5) +3 Minion 500% (*5) +3 Bosses only receive the 500% (*5) experience bonus if they receive random Unique bonuses in Nightmare and Hell, so they only apply to Griswold, Radament and Nihlathak. Party bonus Prior to joining a party, player character only gains experience from own kills (and those of any mercenary or pets); experience is not gained from the kills of others in the game. After joining a party, whenever a character (or mercenary or pet) makes a kill, bonus experience is gained for every party member present in the same area. [3] Bonus experience is calculated as follows, then added to experience: Bonus = [ abs( ( (party members - 1) * experience) * 87 [4]) / 256] When ( (party members - 1) * experience) * 87 equals 2,147,483,648 (231) or greater, there is an overflow which can result in a negative value: for example, 2,500,000,000 becomes -1,794,967,296 (-2,147,483,648 + (2,500,000,000-2,147,483,648) ). This can obviously significantly reduce experience gained: if it still results in a negative value after being divided by 256 and added to experience, experience is set to 1. [5] Essentially, experience since 1.11 is increased by ~34% or 87/256 for each additional member of a party in the same area (in 1.10 the increase was 89/256, or ~35%). [6] Party members Experience 1 ~134% (+087/256) 2 ~168% (+174/256) 3 ~202% (+261/256) 4 ~236% (+348/256) 5 ~270% (+435/256) 6 ~304% (+522/256) 7 ~338% (+609/256) After this party bonus is added, total experience is then shared between all party members within 53 1/3 yard radius (commonly described as a little more than two 800x600 screen widths, which are 25 yards each) of the killer. [7] [8] When a mercenary or pet of a party member makes the kill, radius is measured from the player character to which they belong. [9] Each character's share is determined by dividing total experience by the sum of the character levels of all party members within radius, then multiplying by that character's own level. [10] Ceiling A ceiling of 8,388,607 maximum experience from a single kill is applied at this stage, although when playing solo this is only ever reached at higher player counts for some Evils in Hell: [11] [12] Monster Players Diablo 7 Baal 3 Diablo clone 3 Lilith 7 Uber Duriel 6 Uber Izual 5 Uber Mephisto 4 Uber Diablo 3 Uber Baal 1 Consequently killing Diablo gains no more experience when playing solo with eight players in the game over seven, while killing Baal gains no more experience when playing solo with 4-8 players in the game over just three. However, later modifications can still decrease (or increase) this value. Character level Experience gained is then modified depending on how character level compares to monster level of kills. Monster level includes any Champion, Unique or minion level bonus. [13] Bosses only receive the level +3 bonus if they receive random Unique bonuses in Nightmare and Hell, so they only apply to Griswold, Radament and Nihlathak. Clvl < 25 Experience gained by characters who have not yet reached level 25 is modified as follows: [14] Mlvl X/256 Percent > clvl+9 5 001.953125 clvl+9 38 014.84375 clvl+8 92 035.9375 clvl+7 174 067.96875 clvl+6 225 087.890625 clvl+5 - clvl-5 256 100 clvl-6 207 080.859375 clvl-7 159 062.109375 clvl-8 110 042.96875 clvl-9 61 023.828125 < clvl-9 13 005.078125 Clvl > 24 Once a character has reached level 25, experience gained from monsters of higher level is multiplied by clvl / mlvl: if experience > 1,048,576, then operation order is [experience/mlvl] * clvl; otherwise, it's [experience * clvl/mvl]. [15] Experience gained from monsters of equal or lower level is subject to the same modification as before: [16] Mlvl X/256 Percent clvl - clvl-5 256 100 clvl-6 207 080.859375 clvl-7 159 062.109375 clvl-8 110 042.96875 clvl-9 61 023.828125 < clvl-9 13 005.078125 Once again, if experience > 1,048,576, then operation order is [experience/256] * X; otherwise, it's [experience * X/256]. [17] [18] Clvl > 69 At clvl < 70, experience is also multiplied by 1024/1024: if experience < 1,048,576, then experience is unchanged (since [experience * 1024/1024] does not result in any rounding down); otherwise, operation order is [experience/1024] * 1024. [19] [20] Once a character has reached level 70, this modification begins to vary based on character level, regardless of monster level: Clvl X/1024 Percent 70 976 95.3125 71 928 90.625 72 880 85.9375 73 832 81.25 74 784 76.5625 75 736 71.875 76 688 67.1875 77 640 62.5 78 592 57.8125 79 544 53.125 Clvl X/1024 Percent 80 496 48.4375 81 448 43.75 82 400 39.0625 83 352 34.375 84 304 29.6875 85 256 25 86 192 18.75 87 144 14.0625 88 108 10.546875 89 81 07.91015625 Clvl X/1024 Percent 90 61 5.95703125 91 46 4.4921875 92 35 3.41796875 93 26 2.5390625 94 20 1.953125 95 15 1.46484375 96 11 1.07421875 97 8 0.78125 98 6 0.5859375 99 5 0.48828125 [21] If experience < 2,097,152, then operation order is [experience * X/1024]; otherwise, it's [experience/1024] * X. [22] [23] Experience Gained Experienced Gained is the last bonus applied to experience. Its percentage is applied to the current experience value and then the result is added to current experience: if experience > 1,048,576, then operation order is [experience/100] * bonus; otherwise, it's [experience * bonus/100]. [24] [25] Shrine Experience Shrine applies +50% Experience Gained while active. Small Charm Value Source Min Rlvl Ladder +(5-10)% Annihilus Small Charm 70 No Staff Value Source Min Rlvl Ladder +5% Ondal's Wisdom Elder Staff 66 No Experience loss Player characters can also lose experience upon any death in Nightmare and Hell difficulty levels, based on a percentage of the total experience required to gain the next level: 5% is lost in Nightmare and 10% in Hell, although levels already gained cannot be lost. For example, 20,126,064 total experience is required for a level 67 character to gain level 68: a death in Nightmare would result in 1,006,303 experience loss, while one in Hell would result in 2,012,606 experience loss. 75% of this lost experience can be recovered if the player is able to recover the corpse without saving and exiting. Gaining levels Tables below list the minimum experience required to gain a particular character level for player characters, and the maximum experience required to gain the next level: Level Experience Required This Level Next Level 1 0 500 2 500 1,000 3 1,500 2,250 4 3,750 4,125 5 7,875 6,300 6 14,175 8,505 7 22,680 10,206 8 32,886 11,510 9 44,396 13,319 10 57,715 14,429 11 72,144 18,036 12 90,180 22,545 13 112,725 28,181 14 140,906 35,226 15 176,132 44,033 16 220,165 55,042 17 275,207 68,801 18 344,008 86,002 19 430,010 107,503 20 537,513 134,378 21 671,891 167,973 22 839,864 209,966 23 1,049,830 262,457 24 1,312,287 328,072 25 1,640,359 410,090 26 2,050,449 512,612 27 2,563,061 640,765 28 3,203,826 698,434 29 3,902,260 761,293 30 4,663,553 829,810 31 5,493,363 904,492 32 6,397,855 985,897 33 7,383,752 1,074,627 Level Experience Required This Level Next Level 34 8,458,379 1,171,344 35 9,629,723 1,276,765 36 10,906,488 1,391,674 37 12,298,162 1,516,924 38 13,815,086 1,653,448 39 15,468,534 1,802,257 40 17,270,791 1,964,461 41 19,235,252 2,141,263 42 21,376,515 2,333,976 43 23,710,491 2,544,034 44 26,254,525 2,772,997 45 29,027,522 3,022,566 46 32,050,088 3,294,598 47 35,344,686 3,591,112 48 38,935,798 3,914,311 49 42,850,109 4,266,600 50 47,116,709 4,650,593 51 51,767,302 5,069,147 52 56,836,449 5,525,370 53 62,361,819 6,022,654 54 68,384,473 6,564,692 55 74,949,165 7,155,515 56 82,104,680 7,799,511 57 89,904,191 8,501,467 58 98,405,658 9,266,598 59 107,672,256 10,100,593 60 117,772,849 11,009,646 61 128,782,495 12,000,515 62 140,783,010 13,080,560 63 153,863,570 14,257,811 64 168,121,381 15,541,015 65 183,662,396 16,939,705 66 200,602,101 18,464,279 Level Experience Required This Level Next Level 67 219,066,380 20,126,064 68 239,192,444 21,937,409 69 261,129,853 23,911,777 70 285,041,630 26,063,836 71 311,105,466 28,409,582 72 339,515,048 30,966,444 73 370,481,492 33,753,424 74 404,234,916 36,791,232 75 441,026,148 40,102,443 76 481,128,591 43,711,663 77 524,840,254 47,645,713 78 572,485,967 51,933,826 79 624,419,793 56,607,872 80 681,027,665 61,702,579 81 742,730,244 67,255,812 82 809,986,056 73,308,835 83 883,294,891 79,906,630 84 963,201,521 87,098,226 85 1,050,299,747 94,937,067 86 1,145,236,814 103,481,403 87 1,248,718,217 112,794,729 88 1,361,512,946 122,946,255 89 1,484,459,201 134,011,418 90 1,618,470,619 146,072,446 91 1,764,543,065 159,218,965 92 1,923,762,030 173,548,673 93 2,097,310,703 189,168,053 94 2,286,478,756 206,193,177 95 2,492,671,933 224,750,564 96 2,717,422,497 244,978,115 97 2,962,400,612 267,026,144 98 3,229,426,756 291,058,498 99 3,520,485,254 Calculators These calculators aren't entirely accurate when applying the party bonus after 1.10, since this decreased slightly from 89/256 to 87/256 from 1.11 onwards. 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