Rested EXP and RAF

[PyrostasisTDK]

So Im a bit lost... I have had rested exp since the first night I logged my team in an inn, and have been unable to burn through it no matter how many mobs I kill or how long I play. I'm almost up to a full level.

I have checked my combat journal and Im not seeing any plus to exp through rested, but I do see RAF. So... do you not use rested while in RAF pre 60?

[thepackerfan]

yup, they dont stack

[PyrostasisTDK]

well guess it will be nice to hit 60 with a full level + of rested

[Ualaa]

While the Recruit a Friend promotion lasts, you spend unlimited (until it ends at 60th) RAF experience, which is 300% of normal.
This applies to both kills and quests.

Rested experience is 200% of normal, but only applies to kills not to quests (you get normal exp's for quests).

While you're in the RAF period, you accrue normal rested experience.
However when you reach 60th, you're unlikely to have maximum rested, unless you took a lot of time off in the upper 50's.

This is because rested accumulates at a fixed rate. It takes you a full week to go from no rested to the maximum which is 30 bubbles, or one and a half levels of rested.
Let's say you have no rested at all, and spend 1/3rd of a week in an inn or capital city. You gain 10 bubbles of rested experience, which is half a levels worth.
If your current level requires 100,000 experience to level up, you have about 50,000 experience worth of rested.
Using your exceptional RAF leveling speed, you gain 12 levels in a playing session. Now you're at the start of a level and need 200,000 experience to level up.
You still have 50,000 experience worth of rested, but this is no longer half a level, but instead 1/4 of a level.
You haven't lost any rested experience, if you express rested as a numerical value; as a percentage of a level, you have a smaller amount (fewer bubbles).

[Frosty]

You know what else keeps your Rest Bonus from burning up? KIDS!!!
I've had Rest Bonus since level 20. :S

[Boylston]

"You know what else keeps your Rest Bonus from burning up? KIDS!!!"

You are correct, sir!

[TheBigBB]

While the Recruit a Friend promotion lasts, you spend unlimited (until it ends at 60th) RAF experience, which is 300% of normal.
This applies to both kills and quests.

Rested experience is 200% of normal, but only applies to kills not to quests (you get normal exp's for quests).

While you're in the RAF period, you accrue normal rested experience.
However when you reach 60th, you're unlikely to have maximum rested, unless you took a lot of time off in the upper 50's.

This is because rested accumulates at a fixed rate. It takes you a full week to go from no rested to the maximum which is 30 bubbles, or one and a half levels of rested.
Let's say you have no rested at all, and spend 1/3rd of a week in an inn or capital city. You gain 10 bubbles of rested experience, which is half a levels worth.
If your current level requires 100,000 experience to level up, you have about 50,000 experience worth of rested.
Using your exceptional RAF leveling speed, you gain 12 levels in a playing session. Now you're at the start of a level and need 200,000 experience to level up.
You still have 50,000 experience worth of rested, but this is no longer half a level, but instead 1/4 of a level.
You haven't lost any rested experience, if you express rested as a numerical value; as a percentage of a level, you have a smaller amount (fewer bubbles).

This is completely false. If you have 10 bubbles of rested, you keep 10 bubbles of rested even if you level up.

[Spook]

While the Recruit a Friend promotion lasts, you spend unlimited (until it ends at 60th) RAF experience, which is 300% of normal.
This applies to both kills and quests.

Rested experience is 200% of normal, but only applies to kills not to quests (you get normal exp's for quests).

While you're in the RAF period, you accrue normal rested experience.
However when you reach 60th, you're unlikely to have maximum rested, unless you took a lot of time off in the upper 50's.

This is because rested accumulates at a fixed rate. It takes you a full week to go from no rested to the maximum which is 30 bubbles, or one and a half levels of rested.
Let's say you have no rested at all, and spend 1/3rd of a week in an inn or capital city. You gain 10 bubbles of rested experience, which is half a levels worth.
If your current level requires 100,000 experience to level up, you have about 50,000 experience worth of rested.
Using your exceptional RAF leveling speed, you gain 12 levels in a playing session. Now you're at the start of a level and need 200,000 experience to level up.
You still have 50,000 experience worth of rested, but this is no longer half a level, but instead 1/4 of a level.
You haven't lost any rested experience, if you express rested as a numerical value; as a percentage of a level, you have a smaller amount (fewer bubbles).

This is completely false. If you have 10 bubbles of rested, you keep 10 bubbles of rested even if you level up.

Ualaa's explanation was exactly what I experienced while I was still using RAF. It's easy to check, create a RAF paired set of characters, let them set overnight, record the rested bonus amounts, using both the bubble and the points, and level up a couple of times, which will only take a few minutes, and then compare the bubbles vs points for rested. I no longer have any RAF left, and with forty level 60 + chacters, I'll not likely be doing that again soon

[Caspian]

You know what else keeps your Rest Bonus from burning up? KIDS!!!
I've had Rest Bonus since level 20. :S

Yeah, it's not really the kids though, its the homework. Stupid teachers and school. If they didn't have school and homework we could play more and burn through that rest.

[TheBigBB]

While the Recruit a Friend promotion lasts, you spend unlimited (until it ends at 60th) RAF experience, which is 300% of normal.
This applies to both kills and quests.

Rested experience is 200% of normal, but only applies to kills not to quests (you get normal exp's for quests).

While you're in the RAF period, you accrue normal rested experience.
However when you reach 60th, you're unlikely to have maximum rested, unless you took a lot of time off in the upper 50's.

This is because rested accumulates at a fixed rate. It takes you a full week to go from no rested to the maximum which is 30 bubbles, or one and a half levels of rested.
Let's say you have no rested at all, and spend 1/3rd of a week in an inn or capital city. You gain 10 bubbles of rested experience, which is half a levels worth.
If your current level requires 100,000 experience to level up, you have about 50,000 experience worth of rested.
Using your exceptional RAF leveling speed, you gain 12 levels in a playing session. Now you're at the start of a level and need 200,000 experience to level up.
You still have 50,000 experience worth of rested, but this is no longer half a level, but instead 1/4 of a level.
You haven't lost any rested experience, if you express rested as a numerical value; as a percentage of a level, you have a smaller amount (fewer bubbles).

This is completely false. If you have 10 bubbles of rested, you keep 10 bubbles of rested even if you level up.

Ualaa's explanation was exactly what I experienced while I was still using RAF. It's easy to check, create a RAF paired set of characters, let them set overnight, record the rested bonus amounts, using both the bubble and the points, and level up a couple of times, which will only take a few minutes, and then compare the bubbles vs points for rested. I no longer have any RAF left, and with forty level 60 + chacters, I'll not likely be doing that again soon

I've never had any change at all in how many bubbles of rested I had left after leveling up.