Quote Originally Posted by 'Sam DeathWalker',index.php?page=Thread&postID=150252#p ost150252
Oh and was there actually anything incorrect about my statement that 5 is better then two? Given you generate 5/2's the mana with 5 as you do with 2, which allows you to kill 5/2's the mobs with 5 as you do with 2, in the same time span, thus given the group exp bonus with 5 is greater then with two you should, assumming unlimited mobs, level faster with 5. Quests I don't know about much admittadly but seems if its a "go from point A to point B" type quest that it can be done with 5 just as fast as with 2 .... given autofollow.

Group Exp bonus with 5 is 1.4 vs. 1.0 with 2. Its silly to assume you will not level faster with 5, given each kill gives you 140pecent the exp you would get with 2.
I really don't know how mana regenerate = dps. The more +spell you have the faster you can kill mobs. My +spell on my sham are on average 950 and the mana regenerate is about 50, and i can 1/2 shot anything. All mana does is that you have less down time, not that you can kill the mob faster.

Leveling 1 person is the fastest we all know that. Leveling 2 is probably a little faster then lvl 3 (cause of group xp). etc...

Group xp kicks in when you have 3 or more people in your group. Having more then 5 people in your group, and you are not in a raid instance, then you get negative group xp for being in a raid. I don't know the percentage of group xp but i will take your word that it is 1.4 times the mob xp. The reason why blizzard reduces xp in groups is because if they didn't people would group up and just farm a whole area being close enough so everyone gets the xp per kill. The reason they added the group xp is because the xp would be so low that grouping with more then 2 people will kill the xp.

Lets say mob xxx gives a person 1,000 xp
1 player = 1,000 xp
2 players = 500 xp each
3 players = 467 xp each (you get a total of 1,400 xp for group)
4 players = 350 xp each (you get a total of 1,400 xp for group)
5 players = 280 xp each (you get a total of 1,400 xp for group)
Anything more then 5 players you get like 10 xp cause of the stupid negative raid bonus

So the more people you have in your group the less xp you get... Sam you would have known this if you didn't start right out boxing.