Experience

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Experience (also exp or XP) is the primary reward for undertaking adventures in Guild Wars. Completing missions and quests, capturing elite skills and killing hostile creatures results in an experience being rewarded. Once gained, experience cannot be lost.

As your character gains experience, he or she will gain a level upon reaching a certain threshold. A maximum level of 20 is imposed on all player characters in the game, but experience will still be awarded once this level is reached. Instead of gaining levels characters will gain skill points without increasing in level after level 20. The basic formula for the experience needed to achieve the next level is Current level * 600 + 1,400. This value is capped at 15,000 which means characters never require more than 15,000 experience to gain the next level/skill point.

Level	Total XP	XP for next level
1	0	2,000
2	2,000	2,600
3	4,600	3,200
4	7,800	3,800
5	11,600	4,400
6	16,000	5,000
7	21,000	5,600
8	26,600	6,200
9	32,800	6,800
10	39,600	7,400
11	47,000	8,000
12	55,000	8,600
13	63,600	9,200
14	72,800	9,800
15	82,600	10,400
16	93,000	11,000
17	104,000	11,600
18	115,600	12,200
19	127,800	12,800
20	140,600	13,400
21	154,000	14,000
22	168,000	14,600
23+	182,600 + (level - 23) * 15,000	15,000

Note: Levels above 20 are, as noted above, not achievable. Instead, after level 20 you only gain skill points; your shown level does not increase, nor do any level-based character statistics. Consequently, the last three rows on the table above are merely placeholders to track the change in experience required to gain the next skill point.

Note: To find your level based on experience, if they had kept the natural progression, use , where n is your level, and T(n) is your experience.

The amount of experience gained from killing creatures is based on the level of the creature killed vs. your own level. Experience has an upper limit of 280 points per kill. If more than one character (player or NPC) is within range, then those characters split the XP gained.

Monster level (compared to your level)	Experience gained	If there are 2 party members
+11 or more	280	140
+10	264	132
+9	248	124
+8	232	116
+7	216	108
+6	200	100
+5	184	92
+4	168	84
+3	152	76
+2	136	68
+1	120	60
Your level	100	50
-1	80	40
-2	64	32
-3	48	24
-4	32	16
-5	16	8
-6 or more	0	0

Notes

• Bosses provide double the listed experience.
• In Hard Mode experience gained from killing monsters is increased by 50%.
• Experience Scrolls can increase experience gain by up to 300%.
• Gaining 75 experience points will remove 1% Death Penalty but doesn't provide a morale boost.