Experience Chain Timer Issue

[Soireb]

NOTE: I'm going to post this here because I'm not sure if this is working as intended and I just happened to noticed it now or if it is a bug. I would like the opinion of the community first. If it is indeed a bug I'll go through the steps and properly report it.

So, tired of FATE grinding and needing to level up Lancer so that I can acquire Invigorate for my Bard, I spent this afternoon doing an EXP chain party around Hawthorne Hut.

While doing this I noticed that the timer for the EXP chain will suddenly go up and down in blocks of 10 seconds. It looked like this:

Engage a mob, EXP Chain Timer is ticking down, Kill a mob, timer is at 19 (the time it was when I first noticed), as I'm move to the next one the timer jumps from 19 to 9, engage new mob, timer comes back up to 19, immediately goes back to 9 and keeps counting down.

It happened several times while I was playing. Has anyone else seen this?

[SkyfangRauss]

if you kill a mob that's higher level than you during an exp chain, you get some time added to the chain's duration

im not sure that the 10 second drop is all about

[Mucko]

Once you get to chain 7 or 8, you only have 10 seconds to kill the next mob to keep the chain going. Even if you had 50 seconds left,killing a mob makes it drop because it gives you less and less time per mob until its only 10 second a kill to continue the chain. If that made any sense.

[Soireb]

Thanks to both, I didn't realized that that was part of the mechanics.

[Garmasi]

What I do find aggravating is that mobs take somewhere around 3 seconds to "die" after their HP hits 0; many times I've lost chain #5 and been taunted with the little "Time's Up!" message. I don't know if it was the same way in FF11 since there was no timer and no way of knowing, but I kinda wish there wasn't a timer here because I hate getting worked up over something so silly, but yet I can't help it.