Item:Stone of Experience

Stone of Heroic Experience

Stone of Epic Experience

Stone of Improved Epic Experience

Sample of an Experience Token

A Stone of Experience is a special item that gives a character 2 million or 4 million experience points without modifications.

Current versions

Heroic Otto's Irresistible Box & Epic Otto's Irresistible Box

There are currently three versions of Otto's Irresistible Boxes and so there are three versions of Stones of Experience.

Version	Base XP granted	Usage
Heroic	2,000,000	only on heroic levels, caps at maximum heroic XP
Epic	2,000,000	only on epic levels, caps at maximum epic XP
Improved Epic	4,000,000	only on epic levels, caps at maximum epic XP

Base experience points are affected by XP boosts (XP boost weekends only affect the VIP bonus). However, the heroic version hard cap at level 20, while the epic versions can only be taken after level 20 and hard cap at level 30. Further, only one stone can be used per life.

Daily Dice

Daily Dice drops experience tokens in the range between 100 and 1500 (silver) or 1000 and 15000 (gold). Their value is doubled on Daily Dice bonus weekends. The tokens are Bound to Account on AcquireBound to Account on Acquire: This item is Bound to Account on Acquire and the granted experience is not affected by any XP bonus.

Usage

The Stones can be used on one's own character or shared with other players who meet the requirements.

• To activate a Stone one oneself, one double-clicks it from inventory.
• To activate a Stone on someone else, the Stone must be dragged to a shortcut bar and clicked once the fellow party member has the focus (much like Guest Passes are granted.)needs verification
• Stones can be mailed, traded, transmitted by shared bank but not sold to vendors nor auctioned.
• Heroic Stones have no minimum level to activate.
• Must be used in a public place.

XP Math

Effects that increase the amount of incoming experience, such as Voice of the Master or Experience Elixirs, also increase the gained experience. Bonus weekend XP bonus has no effect, but additional VIP bonus XP may applyneeds verification.

Version	Character Status	Starting XP	Base XP granted	Maximum XP gained	With 70% XP bonus applied *
Heroic	1st Life/Non TR	0	2,000,000	1,900,000 (cap)	1,900,000 (cap)
	2nd Life/1st TR	0	2,000,000	2,000,000	2,850,000 (cap)
	3rd Life/2nd TR	0	2,000,000	2,000,000	3,400,000
Epic	any life	0	2,000,000	2,000,000	3,400,000
Improved Epic	any life	0	4,000,000	4,000,000	6,800,000

* 50% XP Elixir, 10% VIP bonus, 5% Heroic Inspiration and 5% ship buff

Historic Versions

While certain players may still have versions mentioned below, they are not attainable anymore in that form.

Menace of the Underdark bundle (January 2012, Level 8 to 16 version)

MotU bundle Stone of Experience

Players who purchased Menace of the Underdark and were level 16 or higher were eligible to receive Stones of Experience from a special NPC, Braddack Bouldershoulder, in the Harbor near the Marketplace entrance. This version of Stone of Experience could only be used once per account and game server. Promotion ended upon the release of Update 15. At that time, all Stones of Experience were supposed to vanish (but some didn't, most notably the stones in Account Bank and TR cache).

Players were granted stones based on their Menace of the Underdark purchase:

• Base Edition = Two Stones
• Standard Edition = Three Stones
• Collector’s Edition = Five Stones

Special conditions associated with the Menace of the Underdark bundle

• The first time a Stone was used for another player, the owner received a bonus Stone through in-game mail.
• The third time a Stone was used for another player, the owner received an exclusive Snow Panther cub creature companion.
• Prior to Update 14, Stones of Experience could be used on anyone of appropriate level met in public places, irrelevant to party membership. This caused much trouble among unaware players as some tried to distribute their Stones randomly just to get the Snow Panther cub.
• The Stone could not be used on Druids. Druids had just been introduced and had to progress through all levels normally.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan (Contribs • Message • Email • Cordovan) on June 4, 2012 The Stone of Shared Experience does not work on a Druid.

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Originally Posted by Vesuvium on June 12, 2012 Once you have used the Stone of Experience on a character, you cannot take Druid levels on that character. This may change in the future though, possibly around the same time we start allowing people to veteran status into Druid, or LR into Druid levels.

Otto's Irresistible Box (history) (December 2012, Level 8 to 16 version)

Stones of Experience temporarily returned to the game as part of a limited time DDO Store item package. One Stone was included in each box. Some problems involving their use were remedied by the Update 16 Patch 1 Hotfix.

The stones can be traded, however, only the person who opens the box can actually use the stone (on own character or a different one).

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Originally Posted by QuartermasterX on December 17, 2012 The stone of experience from the Holiday Box can indeed be used by characters who have previously true reincarnated or used a stone of experience before.

Bigby's Handy Box (July 2013, Level 7 to 15 version)

These new stones are BtA, not affected by XP bonuses as old stones are, and are not usable on other characters as old stones are: SELF USE ONLY.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan (Contribs • Message • Email • Cordovan) on July 3, 2013 Bonus sources of XP do not stack with the Stone of Experience provided in the Bigby's Handy Box.

XP Math

• The XP granted is what is necessary to reach the target level from the character's current XP, i.e., the character benefits most from using the Stone just after reaching the minimum level.
• The TR status is considered, i.e., the amount of XP granted is higher on characters in their second, third, or subsequent life.
• Effects that increase the amount of incoming experience, such as Voice of the Master or Experience Elixirs, increase the level 16 version Stone's benefit (confirmed to be WAI). They don't increase the level 15 version benefit. Bonus weekend XP bonus has no effect on this as well.

Version	Character Status	Starting Level XP	Target Level XP	Maximum Possible XP gained	With 70% XP bonus applied *
		(A)	(B)	(B) - (A) = (C)	(C) * 1.7 = (D)	(A) + (D)
Level 8→16	1st Life/Non TR	270,000	1,200,000	930,000	1,581,000	1,851,000 (rank 94)
	2nd Life/1st TR	339,250	1,824,250	1,485,000	2,524,500	2,863,750 (rank 93)
	3rd Life/2nd TR	408,500	2,448,500	2,040,000	3,468,000	3,876,500 (rank 91)
Level 7→15	1st Life/Non TR	200,000	1,050,000	850,000	N/A
	2nd Life/1st TR	244,750	1,561,750	1,317,000	N/A
	3rd Life/2nd TR	289,500	2,073,500	1,784,000	N/A

Guild Bounties

Stones of Experience used during the Build Your Guild event (April 19, 2012 - June 14, 2012) did grant +10% XP bonus but did not grant Guild Bounties (Guild Renown bonus) when characters reached levels 12 and 16.

External links

• Announcement/discussion thread