Its ALL monoliths.
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Itās not any specific Monolith.
If you have any 4 Monolith levels activated, the XP earned per battle will drop to 2 to 4 depending on playerās VIP and bonuses.
You can have 4 Monoliths at level 1, or 2 Monoliths a level 2, or 1 Monolith at level 1 and another at level 3, or one Monolith at level 4.
As long as the amount of levels activated is 4, the XP earned wonāt be the correct one.
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Like Borjay said, Monolith doesnāt matter. Itās when you pass 4 battles.
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Noticed it is happening for me as well. And at least 2 others in my guild.
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Hey all,
Just an update, I reported this as the top bug report from the community currently.
Weāve been having trouble reproducing the issue, which is the cause for the hold up on getting this fixed 
Iāll pass the most recent info youāve all shared in this thread onto the team to see about reproducing and pinpointing the issue based on this latest info.
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Care to theory-craft why it is only you who have trouble reproducing the issue while normal players encounter it every time without fail?
((Iām pretty sure Iāve seen it mentioned, so) 4 monolith level stuff has been known for ages, by the way.)
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Let me rephrase:
Weāve made the bug hapen - havenāt been able to work out exactly what the reproduction steps are.
Even when causing the bug to happen, when attempting the same steps on a different account the bug has not occurred.
Weāre looking for what is causing the bug so we can fix it but havenāt been able to spot the cause of the issue in the code and due to not finding the pattern in the reproduction steps it has slowed getting this fixed right down.
Iām hopeful this 4 levels of monolith thing is onto something though. Although I would have expected us to have consistently already reproduced the issue by doing that - itās worth going back to and trying again, with and without a combination of other factors attempted.
As we have tested different levels of Monoliths, different Monoliths etc and it doesnāt seem like that the Monolith level alone is causing the issue, because itās not consistent across accounts.
Iāve also personally tried blood frenzy regions, active and inactive Citadel War regions, Victory Point Talisman equipped and combos of all of the above with no monoliths activated, monoliths activated at different levels. different monoliths activatedā¦ etc
It has been a little crazy making for me (bearing in mind Iām not and have never been a QA tester), because I have experienced the bug often and still canāt work out why, because I also have test accounts that I canāt make the bug happen on. Itās making me question myself over whether Iāve skipped part of my repro steps or did I test some accounts on different game versionsā¦ Itās just after a point I have to ask myself if Iām the reason the repro steps arenāt working when I try to get this to happen on all my accounts 
Either way weāve been passing info onto the team so they can test it properly and I already told them at the start of the week I plan to have another go at it myself tomorrow if I have time because I seem to be able to get it easily and just canāt find the pattern myself across accounts. I will do so with a clear head and a fresh blank spreadsheet to track my actions and probably some screen recording for safe measure.
(I think I edited this about 50 times as I thought of more things to add sorry)
Last edit: if it turns out to JUST be 4 levels active I will be glad we found the repro steps but I think Iāll actually flip the table as well because it seems so simple that I should have worked it out myself SIGH - I hope it is just that easy though.
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This is actually fascinating that itās not happening every time - because itās happening to me, on 2 different accounts, on different devices, EVERY SINGLE TIME WITHOUT FAIL, as soon as the total active monolith levels hit number 5.
I thought I was dreaming it, but maybe thereās something to it: in the early days of the bug, initially, I thought that it triggers at level 5 of any specific monolith, and I would get 3 levels in one monolith, and 3 levels in another (so, 6 in total) - and I couldāve sworn as long as it didnāt go above level 4 in any given monolith, the XP was awarded as normal. But a few weeks ago I realised that this work-around is not working any more (if it even was working at all) - 3+3=6, more than 4/5, welcome 2/3 XP per battle. Now Iām really not sure if it was a dream or if I really was getting normal XP 
I really, really hope that the fix is going to be released ASAP. You (by you I mean dev team) made some rewards dependent on hero level (the exalted path) - and hero levelling up has been crippled VERY HARD by this bug, and itās been going on for long months now.
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3+ months without XP
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Hereās an idea, I hope it doesnāt come across as offensive. Any chance you could post a video of what you are doing and the community analyses it?
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You understand why I said this issue is crazy making for me then, literally, Iām just like did I mess up my own testing? Am I going slowly insane? Like I said tomorrow with a fresh spreadsheet, the new clues youāve all provided and a clear head, hopefully the answers will become clear 
@Fourdottwoone if I canāt repro it I will see what I can do re:video - or I will at least post my repro steps that I tried if you want. Iām hoping I just can repro it consistently tomorrow.
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It happens absolutely every single time with 5 monoliths. The only 2 I consistently use are skull and damage reduction.
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I usually just go all the way to level 5 in Krystenhall, so far that seemed to always trigger it. No talismans involved. Havenāt really paid attention to it recently, just switched PvP to optional end-of-day activity to sidestep XP reductions.
Itās kind of weird, there isnāt any obvious way how the coding could be messed up. Thinking about it a bit, I had the impression that base XP for each battle gets set to 1 (instead of 9 x [number of troops killed]), then multiplied like always by whatever XP bonuses there are (usually ending up in an XP range of 2 - 4). What could it incorrectly be putting in there though? Some hidden conditional that only activates with enough monolith buffs. Maybe something related to Valhawk eligibility? Or a flag that the account gets treated in a special way when picking opponents/getting picked as opponent?
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If anyone can post a video of reaching monolith level 5 and then getting normal xp from a pvp battle, it sounds like that would be a huge help to the dev team.
As far as Iām aware, the bug happens every single time for everyone. Very strange that itās not 100% reproducible. Is the testing being done on the live game server on real accounts?
ā¦what? No way. Its an incredibly easy bug to reproduce. Take any monolith to 5
Reading the rest after my incredulity at your first postā¦so what you are saying is the devs know it happens every time you go to 5 but dont know how to fix it
Itās almost as if every time you get a Monolith it decides one of your troops has died. So when you get 4 Monliths then youāre all dead and you get 3XP for the ālossā
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and invite code please 
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Tested it again, single step. First venture today into PvP, no buffs active, 11 Monolith Sigils.
1.) Quick Battle in Central Spire, 4 kills, 81 XP.
2.) Battle in Ullorās Henge. Buff to level 1, 10 Monolith Sigils left.
3.) Quick Battle in Central Spire, 4 kills, 81 XP.
4.) Battle in Ullorās Henge. Buff to level 2, 9 Monolith Sigils left.
5.) Quick Battle in Central Spire, 4 kills, 81 XP. 1 Valhawk visiting, 11 Monolith Sigils left.
6.) Battle in Ullorās Henge. Buff to level 3, 10 Monolith Sigils left.
7.) Quick Battle in Central Spire, 5 kills, 101 XP.
8.) Battle in Ullorās Henge. Buff to level 4, 9 Monolith Sigils left.
9.) Quick Battle in Central Spire, 4 kills, 2 XP.
XP always breaks at buff level 4 for me, apparently even when splitting Monolith Battles up. Iād really like to know that sequence that doesnāt reproduce this.
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Programmer beat me to testing today - it does seem to just be having 4 Monolith levels activated regardless of which Monoliths or level combos it is.
Good news is that we believe this is a server fix so we can probably release a fix early next week.
Thanks all for your incredible patience and for all the info you provided.
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Soā¦ while this is a better late than never situation and Iām glad its being fixedā¦ (no really, I am)
ā¦ this topic had actionable data to test for this bug and āreportedā since at least May 22nd. What happened?
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