Re-Envisioning Experience

There's an interesting (if not verbose) discussion on the Sentinel about experience and slaughter.  I've added my opinion on the Clan Lord experience system (it needs an overhaul), but that lead me to think a little more on what I would do differently in Yappy Lord.

The basic premise of Clan Lord experience is that fighters are rewarded for fighting creatures that are a challenge.  Less challenging monsters yield less rewarding experience, and more challenging monsters yield more rewarding experience.  In Yappy Lord, each character class would be rewarded for experience when that class fulfills its role: fighters would earn experience for challenging fights, healers would earn experience for challenging heals, and mystics would earn experience for challenging use of skills (and yes, "use of skills" is deliberately vague).

Just as a fighter has vanquishes and slaughters to measure the experience earned for fighting, healers and mystics would have a similar measurement system to measure the difficulty of their challenges in applying their trade.  A healer that just manages to raise a severely fallen character should receive higher rewards than healing someone who is standing and having "green" injuries.  A healer healing a fighter with 300 Histia should receive more experience for healing a character with 10 Histia.  And so forth.

Such a system would be a drastic change within Clan Lord.  It would pretty much eliminate the need for shares, as healers would not have any need to rely on fighters for experience.  Of course, injured fighters would be a wonderful source of experience for healers, so shares would be either meaningless or gravy-on-the-cake.

In no way do I profess to have given this topic extensive thought.  Just some thought.  There would be a lot of caveats and conditions for healers receiving experience for healing to reduce botting and cheating.  I have no idea what those caveats and conditions would be, but by golly in Yappy Lord they would be thorough and comprehensive.