Inexplicable bonus XP

I'm not exactly a new player, but i don't know where else to put this.

When i kill mobs, the log shows me +148% bonus xp

50% armory bonus (i have a higher class)
50% rested bonus
30% Aetherite Earrings (they work when you are synced down to lvl 70 or below, even if you actual level is above 70)
10% FC buff bonus
3% food bonus

Makes a total of 143%

Any idea where the remaining 5% could be from?
It isn't chain bonus, i have this percentage even when bosses without adds are killed.
I recently moved from Odin to Twintania (a new server) if that matters

There's your answer, you moved to Twintania, a brand new server which has the 'Road to 70' buff used as an incentive to get players to move to new or empty servers from congested ones.

The buff doubles your EXP gained and only disappears once you reach level 70. :)

Road to 70 is only for new characters created on the specified worlds, if you transfer you do not get the bonus. (Otherwise players leveling other jobs could just pop to a double exp world, and then return to where they came from once they leveled up enough).

No idea where the 5% is from....

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

There's your answer, you moved to Twintania, a brand new server which has the 'Road to 70' buff used as an incentive to get players to move to new or empty servers from congested ones.

The buff doubles your EXP gained and only disappears once you reach level 70. :)

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the default was something like +200%, so 145 wouldnt be what they were getting.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

There's your answer, you moved to Twintania, a brand new server which has the 'Road to 70' buff used as an incentive to get players to move to new or empty servers from congested ones.

The buff doubles your EXP gained and only disappears once you reach level 70. :)

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I don't have road to 70 as the character was created in 2.0 and is past lvl 70. On top of that it's just 5% i'm looking for, not 100%.

You're sure it wasn't a tier 3 fc buff? Those are 15%

There are tier 3 buffs?
But no, only tier 2 is active

are they using the 10% bonus or the 15% bonus your fc I mean?

Unfortunately housing is not available on Twintania so there is no access to the tier 3 exp buff. The 5% must be coming from something else...

You don't have any other armor that boosts exp? You are using any exp boost items aside from food?

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Originally Posted by JWag12787

You don't have any other armor that boosts exp? You are using any exp boost items aside from food?

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Not apart from the Aetherite Earring

Could be part of a chain bonus from killing multiple enemies in a short timeframe? (Do you see the number going up at all if you, say, group 3 enemies and kill them all really quick?)

I have noticed this before as I leveled. I don't recall the exact culprit, but either the armory or rested bonus is providing a +50% effect to the fc buff. So 10% to 15%

The armory bonus below 70 is 100%. It's 50% at 70-79

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Originally Posted by Muchmidget

Could be part of a chain bonus from killing multiple enemies in a short timeframe? (Do you see the number going up at all if you, say, group 3 enemies and kill them all really quick?)

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There is this - do you recall having a chain going?

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Originally Posted by JWag12787

There is this - do you recall having a chain going?

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The OP said in the very first post that it wasn't chain bonus.....

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Originally Posted by ErikTheRedXIII

I have noticed this before as I leveled. I don't recall the exact culprit, but either the armory or rested bonus is providing a +50% effect to the fc buff. So 10% to 15%

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Hmm... i could test this by asking my FC leaders to not refresh the xp bonus for a moment when it runs out so i can go kill something and check whether the bonus changes by 10 or by 15%. I could also cross check with other FC members if they also have 5% they don't know where they come from. On the other hand, if it were that, tons of people would have the same, and apart from you nobody here said anything the like.

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Originally Posted by ErikTheRedXIII

I have noticed this before as I leveled. I don't recall the exact culprit, but either the armory or rested bonus is providing a +50% effect to the fc buff. So 10% to 15%

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It doesn't work like that. For nearly all Exp bonuses (Road to 70 being the exception) they simply add together, so 50% bonus from armory and 10% FC buff would give a total of 60% bonus. Besides, when my FC has the 10% buff up I get exactly 10% bonus from that, not 15%.

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Originally Posted by ErikTheRedXIII

I have noticed this before as I leveled. I don't recall the exact culprit, but either the armory or rested bonus is providing a +50% effect to the fc buff. So 10% to 15%

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This actually seems to be it. Without having any avoidable buffs, i had +100% (50% armory 50% rested), with the lvl 2 XP FC buff (Twintania has no housing yet), which should only give 10%, i had +115%

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Originally Posted by ErikTheRedXIII

I have noticed this before as I leveled. I don't recall the exact culprit, but either the armory or rested bonus is providing a +50% effect to the fc buff. So 10% to 15%

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It seems to be the armory bonus.

I tested it out with both my highest level combat class and one of my lower level ones. The former went from 130% to 140% when I turned on Heat of Battle II, just as it would be expected to, but the lower level one (which has a 100% armory bonus) went from 230% to 250%. Later, once I'd used up my rested bonus (but with HoB still active) they dropped down to 90% and 200%.

For some reason, even though nearly all bonuses combine additively, those two, the armory bonus and Heat of Battle, combine multiplicatively.