Leveling adventuring fellows is brutally slow at high levels

[Babekeke]

My NPC indeed has leveled up while fighting low level monsters. They get EXP from it.

I'd love to see a screenshot of it happening if you have 1 (preferably in a zone that has no new higher level mobs). This has most definately not always been the case and I'm still 99% certain that it's not the case now.

[Xantavia]

My NPC indeed has leveled up while fighting low level monsters. They get EXP from it.

Was it by any chance the first mob you killed that they leveled up on? The only time I've seen it happen myself is after the first kill, which I'm thinking came from buying an xp scroll and it happened to push them over, so that the first fight in the field leveled her up.

[Lithera]

I can sort of back up his case. My npc is 77 atm recently i was in the 30s-50s and was duoing with her for almost max time. She was 76 at the time and we had just killed a mob and then she went all hey I'm 77 now with fan-fare. Mine when we talk does change her xp to go quota. Normally I won't see a change unless its been a duo session that's been taken to max time. Heck my mule's npc went to 31 while my mule was only 24 on her war. Highest job is whm at 30.

[Kincard]

I admit there's definitely something weird about how NPCs level up though, given that they don't just level up the instant you kill a monster. I've had NPCs level up like 10-20 seconds after killing a monster, or while i'm halfway through killing the next one, so there's something weird going on in the background there (Maybe it doesn't register until the corpse disappears? Dunno).

[Herby]

Would be certainly nice to have some sort of official answer to those conflicting statements.

[Babekeke]

I can sort of back up his case. My npc is 77 atm recently i was in the 30s-50s and was duoing with her for almost max time. She was 76 at the time and we had just killed a mob and then she went all hey I'm 77 now with fan-fare. Mine when we talk does change her xp to go quota. Normally I won't see a change unless its been a duo session that's been taken to max time. Heck my mule's npc went to 31 while my mule was only 24 on her war. Highest job is whm at 30.

If you are lower than your NPC, but fighting mobs that would still con EP to it (at it's normal level), then you are still getting 200 exp/mob.

What Anelheim is insinuating is that a a lvl 80 NPC will level up whilst you are killing level 10 mobs.

[Mirage]

I thought they needed to be EM to the NPC.

[Lithera]

If you are lower than your NPC, but fighting mobs that would still con EP to it (at it's normal level), then you are still getting 200 exp/mob.

What Anelheim is insinuating is that a a lvl 80 NPC will level up whilst you are killing level 10 mobs.

I have had my npc out killing things that would be too weak to my npc if it was not synced down to my lv 20 job and it still got xp.

[Mirage]

I think i'll test this out myself when I choose to level bed, which is currently lv1. Or maybe pup.

[Babekeke]

I have Geo1 and Pup30 myself. Only jobs that are lower than my NPC. Not really fussed about levelling either of them, but I am interested to see proof one way or another.