What does Raw XP mean and what can impact it?

Question

As the question states, what does Raw XP mean and what types of things impact it? 

Do the following XP changing events impact Raw XP or standard XP?

• XP boost (Daily Reward & Store purchase)
• Stamina
• Party boost
• Low Level Bonus
• Boosted creatures
• Boosted areas
• Double XP weeks/event
• Rapid respawn
• A Piece of Cake (50% experience for premium players)
• Bewitched (50% XP boost)
• Tibia Anniversary (15% Bonus Experience Rate)
• Demon Lullaby (50% XP boost)
• Spring into Life (25% XP increase for Dragon Hatchlings)
• The Colours of Magic (Violet wins: spellcaster creatures give 25% more xp. Orange wins: shared XP in party mode increased by 30%)
• Orcsoberfest (50% XP boost for creatures in demon class)
• A Pirate's Death to Me (10% more XP in shared XP in party mode for Undead creatures)
• The Lightbearer (10% more XP in shared XP in party mode)
• Rise of Devovorga (50% XP boost)
• Rapid respawn
• Things that impact DPS (EQ, preys, charms, mastermind/berserk/bullseye potions, avatars, summons, etc)

Comments

Raw XP means exactly the value displayed in the "Hunt Analyzer" after enabling "Show raw values".

As the last point obviously impacts the value, it makes the definition even more imprecise, meaning "I got this Raw Exp/h value while hunting there normally". That would also exclude any respawn and event bonuses.

As per, which of the XP events could impact the meter, I'm not sure. :)

Answer 1

Raw experience refers to the amount of experience you are pulling without any additional experience bonus. For example Premium Bonus or Experience Boost from the shop, or Prey Experience Bonus. So Raw experience is the definitive best way to know what spawn gives the best experience when you are looking for "pure" experience with no bonuses.

This is especially helpful with players trying to make guide videos on where the best "leveling" spawns are so you can gauge how much experience the spawn can give without having to "min max" by only hunting premium bonus with boost and experience prey.

As far as events or things "impacting" raw experience, most events don't directly increase raw experience since "raw" means the exact amount of experience the creature gives without any outside boosts. So if a creature gives 1,000 experience raw then the outside boosts are only adding to the experience for your specific character, not adding experience to the creature, which is why 1 person in the party can have premium bonus and boost and receive 4,000 experience from the creature and somebody else in the party could have no bonuses and only receive the 1,000 experience. The only events that would affect the raw experience would be ones that directly increase the amount of experience a certain creature gives, for example "Spring into life" event that increase experience for Dragon Hatchlings.

Other than events like that you could technically "increase" the amount of raw experience your pulling in a spawn during a "rapid respawn" event since you will more than like be killing double the amount of creatures in the same amount of time. So although the creatures aren't giving you more experience, you are technically killing more of them and faster which would mean you are going to pull more experience overall. For example, If i were to hunt a spawn at level 500 and pull 5kk raw, then go back to the spawn at level 800 I am more than likely going to be pulling more raw exp an hour than before since I am now stronger and faster and will be clearing the creatures quicker.

Hoped this explanation helped!