My Aetheryte Earring isn't giving bonus.

[Iscah]

+80% EXP would presumably be 50% rested bonus and 30% from the earring.

Unless there's something I've missed, it sounds like more of a glitch that you aren't getting reduced to +50% when you take the earring off!

Although I do remember at one point I was getting a strange total of EXP boosts that didn't seem to add up with what effects I should have had. (From memory, a ~Lv58 warrior - one of my last leveled classes - getting 170% bonus out of the armoury +100% and rested +50%. Could not work out where I'd be picking up the extra from.)

Also, I'm not certain but I think the EXP boost applies to mobs in dungeons, just not the big bonuses you get from completion or roulettes.

[Barraind]

Apparently you can also reach an exp buff cap, but I have no idea what that cap is and thus if you have reached it or not.

Its at or over 1000%.

[Dfess]

All EXP%+ items only affect kill exp, but I agree that the items should say that. Armory Bonus and Road to 60 are the only two things that can affect exp from other sources (armory works on fates/leves/potd, Road to 60 doubles exp from all sources including quests).

If you had no other +exp effects, +80% is what you should be getting with the earring and armory bonus on your level 62 job fighting a level 62 mob. If you still got +80% after you removed the earring, it was likely from chain kill exp (you get +20% from chain 1 and +5% for each chain after on a mob the same level, but I'm not sure if higher level mobs increase that at all). Either way, +80% is the correct amount for earring+armory if you didn't have rest exp or FC buffs or food etc.

It wasn't from a chain kill, I assure you. A chain kill gets me 100% exp bonus. Unless the earring applies to me while it's in my bag. But everywhere I see they say it has to be equipped.

[Dfess]

+80% EXP would presumably be 50% rested bonus and 30% from the earring.

Unless there's something I've missed, it sounds like more of a glitch that you aren't getting reduced to +50% when you take the earring off!

Although I do remember at one point I was getting a strange total of EXP boosts that didn't seem to add up with what effects I should have had. (From memory, a ~Lv58 warrior - one of my last leveled classes - getting 170% bonus out of the armoury +100% and rested +50%. Could not work out where I'd be picking up the extra from.)

Also, I'm not certain but I think the EXP boost applies to mobs in dungeons, just not the big bonuses you get from completion or roulettes.

And I would believe you if I got 50% with my earring off. But I get 80% with it on and off. Until I can get clarification from SE or someone who has gone through this then I'm going to treat this as a bug.

[Nohta]

Until I can get clarification from SE or someone who has gone through this then I'm going to treat this as a bug.

A bug that, based off my admittedly minimal testing, seems to be only affecting you for the time being. I tested mine on two alts, a lower level one on ROG while comparing no earring, the Ala Mhigan Earring, and the Aetheryte Earring, and one on a higher level alt on RDM with a Gyuki, the same monster you were testing on. Granted, I couldn't replicate the same test environment (I don't have AST to 60 on any of my alts and my main is capped (not on my forum profile)), so I can't say if there's another element to this, but my Aetheryte Earrings are functioning as expected: a +30% EXP bonus to mob kills on top of my rested (+50%) and armory bonuses (+50% (Lv60+)/+100% (Lv1-59)).

Have you tested it on anything besides your AST? I feel like we need more data before we can make a solid judgment on what's happening here. It'd be simultaneously hilarious and sad if it didn't work with AST exclusively for some reason.

[Akonyl]

It wasn't from a chain kill, I assure you. A chain kill gets me 100% exp bonus. Unless the earring applies to me while it's in my bag. But everywhere I see they say it has to be equipped.

Fwiw, chain bonus isn't +100%, it's a value that ramps up as your chain increases. I'm pretty sure the first chain bonus is +30%, so that could be what was going on if you were testing this quickly.