Cap on +x to experience gained?

[spasm attack]

Someone told me that there is a 50% cap on experience gained. The only way to get that is with an experience shrine, which gives the full 50%. If that is true, then it wouldn't matter if you were holding an Ondal's or not as long as you have an experience shrine. I asked this on the battle.net forums, but all I got was some moron posting the lyrics to some dumb emo song :prop:. Does anyone know if there actually is a cap?

[Orphan]

There is no cap on the experience bonus %. There is a cap on the amount of experience a player can get at any given time though (8.4 million).

[GargonCerlan]

I just tested it. Solo game in hell on ladder USEast. I found 3 dark spearwomen. Once without the shrine or anni, I got 26 experience points. With my 8% anni I got 28 experience points, and with anni and experience shrine I received 36 experience points, so I don't believe there is a 50% cap. Each of the three dark spearwomen were the same, none were minions or champions, just plain old dark spearwomen. If you want to put a cap on exp, I'd say that it would be 65%, or 50% from and experience shrine, 10% from a perfect exp anni, and 5% from ondals.

[GargonCerlan]

There is no cap on the experience bonus %. There is a cap on the amount of experience a player can get at any given time though (8.4 million).

Orphan, can you clarify that "at any given time" comment? Do you mean that in one game that is the max a player can receive? I'm not sure I fully understand what you are saying there. Is that something like if a player was on single player on players8 and cleared every area in every act that would be the max exp gained, or is the exp penalty somehow included in that equation?

[Orphan]

Orphan, can you clarify that "at any given time" comment? Do you mean that in one game that is the max a player can receive? I'm not sure I fully understand what you are saying there. Is that something like if a player was on single player on players8 and cleared every area in every act that would be the max exp gained, or is the exp penalty somehow included in that equation?

I meant in any single kill. When the game goes through the experience calculations to determine how much experience that player received for a particular kill, it cannot exceed 8.4 million (and it cannot be less than 1 either).

[droid]

huh....ill necro this thread to see if anyone can tell me if its even possible to get 8.4M exp from any one kill? How much does Baal/D/Nihl on 8 player Hell soloed with anni, exp shrine and the +exp unique staff give?

[Alash]

The best I can think of is soloing Baal (H) at clvl 70 in an 8-man game and with +65% Experience Gained. Due to level difference you'd only gain 70,70% of his base experience, which is 20,413,242 in a full game. Also at level 70 there's a penalty, meaning you can only ever get 95,31% of full experience. With all of this into play then, theoretically Baal would give you 22,696,234 experience in a single kill had it not been for the cap on 8,400,000.

Some math zealot please confirm whether these calculations are correct.