I really believe this whole model should be changed.  The experience reward should be set by the challenge of the enemy group, and not varied by spells used, etc. 

In real life, we get experience from actions and practice.  As an idea, you could add some variable portion depending on how much an individual unit or character does in the battle.  This should be capped to prevent nonsense experience farming and dragging battles out.

Cheers,

Sword

Sean-

yep, I am sure.  Fought the same battle 4 times.  First time, used "Dirg" spell with my 9 death shards, instakilled a "strong" party for 1 exp.  My sov had the 10% bonus... and still got 1 point.

Second battle, used the spell that reduces constitution, strength, etc.. just 1 time, ended up with 17 for the sov, 14 for everybody else (and 1 of my champs fell in battle).

Third time, used that spell twice.  Cleaned up.  1 exp. for everybody.

Last time, fought with no death spells.  Sov had 48, 2 champs bit the dust, the rest got 42 exp.

THAT is when I realized how much exp I was missing--no wonder I was having to wait until endgame just to get my sov--with the 10% feature--to level 9!

There has been no indication that this would be anything but a bug. Magic users are not supposed to be penalized for using magic. Only having more heroes should do that under the current design. You should report it and offer up a saved game if you can.

@Ensais I think you are missing the point of beta testing. You are supposed to report bugs to the game designers for them to verify and fix, not have other persons of the community verify that information and twiddle their thumbs with it.

This was a good find, make a post (or transfer this one with a 'bug' title) to the FE Support forum so the devs can address it.

They are not looking here? ... I think I missed something when joining this forum ...

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Random loot from Mobs is based on exp, so less exp = less loot.

Also killing lairs from the strategic map with pillars of fire etc = no loot

So buffing yourself is greater then debuffing the mob

Are you sure the spells was what made the difference and not the number of surviving champions at the end of combat.  From your description it looks like losing champions resulted in more experience for the remaining units.  Using the nasty spells just prevented the loss of champions.

What we need is a controlled test.  Three solo sovereigns, one a blaster wizard, one a debuffer and one straight up meleer perhaps, vs something like a spider.  

I understand that, leave the silly testing to us cripples!

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

From what I can tell, XP is based on the stats of the unit dying. So Wither may lower XP in that respect. 

Ah.

So the optimum strategy to level your units and get good loot is actually to BUFF your enemies!

Thanks, I see the light now

(Also definitely a bug IMO, the original poster should change the title to have [BUG] in the title)

It may be stats increase combat rating and combat rating determines XP. I know Ignys have some traits that make their combat rating go way up per unit. I bet frogboy is watching this thread from the shadows, laughing quietly at our ignorance.