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Monster Experience

Monster experience in Diablo 2 works on a similar system to the one used by many other popular RPGs. In Diablo 2, a character who is within 5 levels of the monster's level will receive full experience for it. Killing a monster further away from your level will result in a smaller experience gain, as many in the Stress Test have seen. This works on both sides, so a level 1 killing a level 10 monster such as Blood Raven will actually receive very little experience. This is to keep low level characters from tagging along with characters who are much higher in level. There aren't enough high level monsters in the Stress Test to learn about the lower side of the experience curve, but the higher side is summed up below:

At six levels above, you get ~80% of the total experience
At seven levels above, you get ~60% of the total experience
At eight levels above, you get ~40% of the total experience
At nine levels above, you get ~22.5% of the total experience
At ten or more levels above, you get 5% rounded down of the total experience

Unique monsters, including special ones like Corpsefire and Coldcrow, are worth 5x as much exp and are 3 levels higher than their regular counterparts. Champions are worth 3x as much exp and are 2 levels higher than their regular counterparts. Since Dark Rangers are normally worth 54 experience, Coldcrow is worth 270 experience, making her and any other Dark Ranger uniques the largest experience-givers in the Stress Test. However, Blood Raven is higher level and therefore she gives more experience to characters level 14 and above. We've gone to great lengths to fill out a table of the experience that you gain for killing monsters in the Stress Test. If there are more players in the game, these values will increase, but their relative ratios will stay the same. Note: some of these data points are the result of speculation, but they are all within a few of their real value.

Experience For Base Monsters In A One Player Game
Base Monster	lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Fallen	1	18	18	18	18	18	18	14	11	7	4	1	1	1	1	1	1
Quill Rat	1	21	21	21	21	21	21	17	13	9	5	1	1	1	1	1	1
Zombie	1	33	33	33	33	33	33	26	20	14	7	1	1	1	1	1	1
Dark Hunter	2	31	31	31	31	31	31	31	25	19	13	7	1	1	1	1	1
Fallen Shaman	2	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	25	19	13	7	1	1	1	1	1
Skeleton	2	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	27	21	14	8	1	1	1	1	1
Dark Spearwoman	2	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	29	22	15	8	1	1	1	1	1
Hungry Dead	2	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	35	27	18	10	2	2	2	2	2
Gargantuan Beast	2	48	48	48	48	48	48	48	38	29	20	11	2	2	2	2	2
Dark Ranger	4	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	54	43	33	23	12	2	2	2

Experience For Champion Monsters In A One Player Game
Champ Monster	Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Dark Hunter	4	93	93	93	93	93	93	93	93	93	75	57	39	21	3	3	3
Skeleton	4	102	102	102	102	102	102	102	102	102	81	63	42	24	5	5	5
Dark Spear	4	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	108	87	66	45	24	5	5	5
Hungry Dead	4	132	132	132	132	132	132	132	132	132	105	81	54	30	6	6	6
Gargantuan Beast	4	144	144	144	144	144	144	144	144	144	114	87	60	33	7	7	7
Dark Ranger	6	162	162	162	162	162	162	162	162	162	162	162	131	100	69	36	8

Experience For Unique Monsters In A One Player Game
Unique Monster	Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Zombie (Corpsefire)	4	165	165	165	165	165	165	165	165	165	133	102	71	36	8	8	8
Fallen Shaman (Bishibosh)	5	160	160	160	160	160	160	160	160	160	160	129	99	68	38	8	8
Dark Hunter	5	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	155	125	95	65	35	7	7
Skeleton	5	170	170	170	170	170	170	170	170	170	170	135	105	70	40	8	8
Dark Spear	5	180	180	180	180	180	180	180	180	180	180	145	112	76	43	9	9
Hungry Dead	5	220	220	220	220	220	220	220	220	220	220	177	136	91	50	11	11
Gargantuan Beast	5	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	240	190	147	103	57	12	12
Dark Ranger (Coldcrow)	7	237	270	270