I currently play a reasonably high lvl character. I am well aquianted with the joy of running into a few packs of rothe on the way to or from Sanctuary. Especially since I get about as much XP from 6 rothe as I get from a hard static that takes an hour.

This is pretty silly. There is no way high lvl characters learn more through killing cow analogs than they do taking on fiendish mobs of incredable power. It is currently being rorted (I was with a party that talked about handing in 10 and 14 at a time, with records of 37 a day). Not only is it to more coin and xp than can be got any other way, but the sight of the servers most powerful and feared characters tripping over each other to hunt cows... well enough said.

I propose that the XP be level based, and you get none after lvl 5 or 6. Moreover the pay should go down the more that are handed in. 40 at reset maybe, and goes down by 2 per hand in or something. There is enough rothe for everyone after a few hand ins, and the butcher wont pay as much.

Alternately, with people handing them in by the dozen, maybe they do go extinct, or at least become very rare.

I would like to see all XP gains from killing a docile animal, which any level character with STR high enough to carry the meat back can do easily and seemingly at will, removed completely!

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It gives XP to characters above level 5?

I think it is 4 XP and 40 gold each rothe, independant of level.

I get 5 xp.

5 xp per rothe is...not that much. Most any quest will give you way more than 5 rothe does. Do people actually do it for the xp? It doesn't seem worthwhile to me.

I always got 4xp. Positive on that.

5 xp doesnt sound like much, and at low lvls you get more xp for sneezing than handing in rothe. But I completed the Goblin Fortruss for a grand total of 6 xp the other day. Someone on that quest was a higher ECL adjusted lvl than me. They got 6 or 8 rothes on the way there and back. So the walk there and back got them more coin, and more xp, than assaulting a fortruss.

Hell. Now I think about it my next character may not be an adventurer at all. Instead? A Rothe farmer! Better pay, better XP. Im writting my application right now.

Sounds more like a problem with the quest than with 5 xp per rothe. At level 7 I get 300something exp for Goblin Fortress completion and at least 200 exp inside. What was your level/ECL when you got 6 exp for completing that quest?

Scrap, I'm pretty sure your ECL is above pretty much every quest, which makes the xp rewards from them really low for you. I'm pretty sure there isn't anyone with higher ECL than you, and I don't think there ever has been.

sounds like it is time to retire your character scrap or just spend most of your time engaging in player plots!

I guess I should point out a couple things. 1 people shocked by the xp Scrap gets, it's due to an effective character level of 11, going on cap 10 quests.

Second, his point about rothe is right on and will be fixed.

That quest is only done for the gold I'd wager. I'd prefer if the gold was a possible forty based on your Appraise check, so you'd usually get around 20-30 with little or no apraise but you can get up to forty with high appraise.