Experience

General

Experience can refer to either Base Experience or Job Experience. Both types are required in order for a character to reach his or her full potential. Experience can be gained by killing monsters and completing quests.

Mechanics

The experience system in Arcadia Online is very simple (as long as special modifiers are not counted). Stronger monsters are worth much more EXP than weak monsters.

The character level or monster level does not affect EXP gained. For example, killing a Poporing will always provide 81 base EXP, whether it is killed by a level 15 character or a level 98 character.

Base Experience in actual numbers can be viewed in the Character Select screen or by using @exp in game.

Party Sharing

In order to activate EXP sharing, the party leader has to set Even Share in the party setup in game.

Only people within 10 Base Levels of each other can share the in party gain exp.

Example: Level 91, Level 89, Level 98 could share with each other).
The EXP reward of a monster is split evenly across all online party members on the same map.

(Monster EXP \* (Party Bonus \* Tap Bonus) / Number of Party Members) + 1 EXP

ℹ️ For more information → Party Experience Setup.

Sharing Experience in Arcadia

Shared EXP increases by an 15% for each additional player who has either dealt OR received damage or non-damage skills from monsters.

This effect is commonly referred to as tap.
Regardless whether the player is a party member or not, the tap bonus will add its EXP to the monster.
Tap EXP bonus is capped at 11 taps for a 165% bonus.
Out of party tapping is limited to two. So 2 of the maximum 11 counted taps can be out of party.

Parties that don't have any dual-clienting players on the map will get an additional EXP bonus per unique Master Account in the party.

For parties of two or more unique members: 10% flat bonus
Bonus for each unique member (from the 2nd to the 5th): +15%
Bonus for each unique member (from the 6th to the 8th): +10%
Bonus for each unique member (from the 9th to the 12th): +5%

Party

Size	Old	Current
1	0%	0%
2	10% + 1 * 15% = 25%	10% + 1 * 15% = 25%
3	10% + 2 * 15% = 40%	10% + 2 * 15% = 40%
4	10% + 3 * 15% = 55%	10% + 3 * 15% = 55%
5	10% + 4 * 15% = 70%	10% + 4 * 15% = 70%
6	10% + 5 * 15% = 85%	10% + 4 * 15% + 1 * 10% = 80%
7	10% + 6 * 15% = 100%	10% + 4 * 15% + 2 * 10% = 90%
8	10% + 7 * 15% = 115%	10% + 4 * 15% + 3 * 10% = 100%
9	10% + 7 * 15% = 115%	10% + 4 * 15% + 3 * 10% + 1 * 5% = 105%
10	10% + 7 * 15% = 115%	10% + 4 * 15% + 3 * 10% + 2 * 5% = 110%
11	10% + 7 * 15% = 115%	10% + 4 * 15% + 3 * 10% + 3 * 5% = 115%
12	10% + 7 * 15% = 115%	10% + 4 * 15% + 3 * 10% + 4 * 5% = 120%

Bonus / Party size

If a second character from the same Master Account enters the same map the party is currently in, the party bonus will be lost.
When the second character leaves, there is a 10 minute-cooldown before the bonus becomes active again.
If a dual-clienting player is removed from the party, the rest of the party does not suffer the 10-minute cooldown period.
Players using Guest Accounts are still logged in via their own Master Account; therefore, if you log in a guest character alongside your own, it considers both characters to be under the same Master Account, and you will not get an EXP bonus, if dual-clienting.
- Bard and Dancer's Ensemble Skill Mr. Kim A Rich Man does not stack with this bonus.
- Where a party has both a unique Master Account bonus AND Mr. Kim A Rich Man, the higher bonus will be used. Therefore, in parties of 6 players or more, Mr. Kim A Rich Man has no effect.

Quest Experience Reward

Many quests offer EXP rewards for doing them. See Quest Table for a list of quests that give EXP rewards.
Note that you cannot gain more than one level from a single bucket of reward EXP, if the EXP rewards exceeds the EXP required to level up by a huge amount.

Formula: Max gain = (EXP requirement for current level)\*2 - (Current EXP gathered in current level) - 1
Gathering the EXP when a player current EXP % is close to zero will maximize the gain from a single amount.
- A level 60 non-transcendent character needs 365,914 base EXP to level up. If that character has 100,000 EXP and completes the Lost Child Quest (900,000) EXP, the character will be level 61 with 365,913 XP toward next level. In this case actual EXP gained is 631,827, wasting 268,173 EXP.

Modifiers

The following skills, items, or effects can add to experience (base/job) gained via killing monsters.
- Mr. Kim A Rich Man
- Shoes Cards
  - Am Mut Card - Demi-Human monsters
  - Ancient Worm Card - Demon monsters
  - Christmas Cookie Card - Angel monsters
  - Explosion Card - Dragon monsters
  - Gajomart Card - Plant monsters
  - Gullinbursti Card - Fish monsters
  - Iron Fist Card - Formless monsters
  - Mini Demon Card - Brute monsters
  - Merman Card - Brute monsters, archer class only
  - Skeleton General Card - Insect monsters
  - Zombie Prisoner Card - Undead monsters
- Dragon Killer (Dragon Race)
- Slash (Undead Race)
- Acolyte Set, for the Acolyte class only, Demon and Undead monsters
- Star Gladiator's Blessing Skills - Aligned Monsters on the appropriate day
- Experience "Tap" - For each player beyond the first who has hit the monster or been hit by the monster's normal attack, experience awarded is increased by 15% (up to 11 players can tap a monster, in addition to the one who kills it)
- Temporary Experience Events
- Monster of the Day System
- Floating Rates Event

Modifier Stacking

Aligned Monster Formula (Star Gladiators):
((Original Exp\*Exp Event Modifier)\*Exp Tap Modifier\*(Weapon Modifier+Card Modifier+Manual Modifier)\*(Blessing Modifier+Mr. Kim))
Non-Aligned Monster Formula (Everyone Else):
((Original Exp\*Exp Event Modifier)\*Exp Tap Modifier\*(Weapon Modifier+Card Modifier+Manual Modifier)\*Mr. Kim A Rich Man)