Company-Issue Survival Manual bug?

So I bought one of these:
http://xivdb.com/?item/4635/Company-...ival-Manual-II

It claims it gives a 50% xp bonus to gathering activities for up to 40,000 points.

I used one thinking it was a crafting one by mistake and decided to make use of it anyways and went out and gathered. Over 70,000XP in and I'm still getting the 50% boost.

Am I misunderstanding how this works, is the tooltip wrong, or is this a bug?

I think the bonus XP is 40k, if I read this right you earned 70k in total? So you earned 46.6 K normal xp, and was boosted to 70k total. So bonus xp recieved is only ~23.4K

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Originally Posted by Cina

I think the bonus XP is 40k, if I read this right you earned 70k in total? So you earned 46.6 K normal xp, and was boosted to 70k total. So bonus xp recieved is only ~23.4K

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^ This - 40,000 XP is the "bonus" xp, not total.

Curious, does it increase the xp gained from leves as well?

You would get 120k exp before that wears off.

Basically - the manuals work like thus:

If the item you're going to farm one a single hit, will give you 200 exp, then you'll net 300exp back. Now, if you get HQ exp or chain exp, this is added on to the base, but doesn't affect how much you get as a return from the manual, so - the manual will give you up to 40k exp based off the original 200 exp from that item. So, using 200 exp as a base, that means you can farm 200 of those items for 200 exp + plus manual + chain + HQ bonus before the manual will run out.

So, if you've got rested and you HQ a LOT and you always get chains, the manual will appear to run out well after the 40k exp you initial thought you'd get.