Stormyboy - Myxir - L71 Summoner AEAR (no potions/untwink) - Throne room
https://imgur.com/2i5xXeZ (hades)
https://imgur.com/X4cYAPhhttps://imgur.com/rEhcgTAhttps://imgur.com/8iydRkwAnd, now that i got to a higher level i can answer a question that bothered me for a long time (especially when playing the xmax challenge): is the helmet with bonus to experience + crystal of erebus 8% bonus experience a good choice? You are sacrificing some stats, % damage, health, skillpoints etc. But, aren't levels powerful than stats?
Answer: No, the difference is insignificant. Here you have the photo evidence of it.
My former hunter at the end of the hades (epic). He used +12% experience since the days of sparta (level 8 or so) and added a crystal on the helmet with bonus experience at the end of hades normal.
Total experience: 108530613, Level 72 (almost 73 with a bar missing).
https://imgur.com/GtTQu1n - hades kill character screenshot - epic bonus exp 20%
https://imgur.com/TSuae5w - total experience - epic - bonus exp 20%
My current character, never used a bonus experience item. He only used +% stats helmets and hollowed helmets. By the same point, Myxir got 99382116 experience, level 71 (and a bar)
https://imgur.com/2i5xXeZ - hades kill character screenshot - no bonus exp
https://imgur.com/X4cYAPh - total experience - no bonus exp
Between the characters, the difference is of 9.000.000 experience or, at the rate i got experience on this character, about half of immortal throne act on epic. As for time played, the difference between the 2 characters is of 7.190 seconds (about 2 hours), the no bonus exp character having more time played. The time difference is irrelevant because every time i am taking dinner or go out i let my characters logged in.
Let's take a look at another point in time, a point where my character used only the 12% helmet exp
https://imgur.com/TuA4hlx - character screenshot hades kill, no bonus exp -normal
https://imgur.com/7tHehJ2 - character screenshot hades kill, bonus exp 12% - normal
At low levels, the luck our character has with hero monsters spawning weights in more than the bonus experience we use on the items. We can see that best on my 2 characters, compared side by side, where the character with bonus exp has lower level than the character with no bonus
So, for my character, 20% bonus experience accounts for about 2 - 4 hours of play
I think i will make a sepparate post somewhere around the forum. I don't think i found a comparison like this anywhere around the internet.