Encounters give oddly disproportionate XP?

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I've noticed that some encounters listed as Deadly or Epic seem to give much less Exp to my same team as those listed as Strong or Medium. For example, my same team leader just seemed to have received 188 exp for clearing a "Strong" earth elemental's squad, but 77 exp for killing the Ashwake, Thingycoil, and One Other Dragon trio in an Epic encounter, while a single Obsidian Golem listed as Deadly gave 94 exp. Not that it matters at that point, but defeating Waerlorga the Dragonlord only gave my team 15 experience...

Is there some sort of bizarre algorithm here I am missing?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Did you have multiple champions in your party for any of these? That's the biggest thing I can think of for having low experience gains - experience rewards are divided by the number of champions present in the army.

Some people have also mentioned that the experience awarded for a fight varies depending on the levels of the units involved in the battle - high level units on your side reducing the experience gain, high level enemy units increasing the experience gain - but I have never paid enough attention to it to see if that was the case.

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

This issue has been reported several times. Battles in older quests -and Wildland bosses, apparently- give only a fraction of regular xp.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

So will there by something done to fix it?