Pet dragon experience

[Metathron]

So the ball of lightning is no longer the most lucrative pet dragon skill, experience-wise?

Doesn't seem to make sense that the ball has a fixed amount of xp when it's a damaging ability just like any other...

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Metathron

So the ball of lightning is no longer the most lucrative pet dragon skill, experience-wise?

Doesn't seem to make sense that the ball has a fixed amount of xp when it's a damaging ability just like any other...

It is. I can get up to 110 xp with it at times, but it takes two rounds (due to one turn for rest), so I just cast awaken and re-cast it again.

[Saiko Kila]

Experience for all skills depends on strength of enemies, but exact experience is based on enemy leadership to your leadership ratio (this is only one part of algorithm). If enemy is strong, very strong, then you can get the same amount of experience when you use Lightning Ball second time, for example. But if enemy is stronger only in the beginning of battle, then you'll get smaller amount using the same ability second time (assuming you've killed some of the bastards by that time). Experience gained depends on some other things, like level of dragon or specific arena of battle, so it's not always easy to know which would be the best skill. Also on some arenas you'll get the same experience if you use the Ball of Lightning for the first time in the beginning or near end, when most enemies are dead, I think this is doing of exp rounding function. But Ball of lightning seem to be one of the best for me (actually, the best, but I don't use Lava or Phantoms).

[ckdamascus]

Actually, Dragon Dive gave me around 200 xp, and since I never buffed it past one rest round, I can get around 200 xp each turn.

My mages are usually terrible with raising my dragon's levels. I am level 53, and it is level 44.

[Riversilk]

Originally Posted by ckdamascus

Actually, Dragon Dive gave me around 200 xp, and since I never buffed it past one rest round, I can get around 200 xp each turn.

My mages are usually terrible with raising my dragon's levels. I am level 53, and it is level 44.

Just to specify, if you buff dragon dive to 2 round rest, you'll also get the chance to select a buff for -1 rest, so it's a gain-gain there anyway...

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Riversilk

Just to specify, if you buff dragon dive to 2 round rest, you'll also get the chance to select a buff for -1 rest, so it's a gain-gain there anyway...

Ah, I forgot about that. Thanks for the tip!