Diablo Immortal players think they've discovered a new XP bug

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Diablo Immortal players think they've uncovered a problem with XP rewards.

Though not confirmed by Blizzard, a Reddit thread (opens in new tab) compiled by a handful of players who have been "looking at this on and off for the last month or so" states "there’s a bug that reduces the XP earned on a significant portion of kills and XP globes", consequently "reducing XP for everyone".

"We don’t fully understand why or when it will happen," writes staplepies on the Reddit thread (thanks, NME (opens in new tab)). "It seems to vary in frequency/impact from zone to zone, and possibly based on the time of day, but we’ve yet to be able to discern any reliable pattern or cause. 

"But overall, it can cause a double-digit percent reduction in XP – sometimes seemingly as much as 50 per cent."

"Under 'normal' circumstances, you always get the same XP for every mob of a certain type," they add in the detailed post, which includes screenshots as evidence of the issue.

"In Shassar Oasis, there are three mob types – Dust Imps (54XP), Drubs (48XP), and Sand Golems (129XP)," staplepies explains. "When XP is unbugged, you can go hours and only ever see these three values (or whatever the corresponding values are for your current XP penalty) in this location for non-elite mobs. (I’m intentionally using just kills from non-elite mobs to keep things simple here, but the bug happens for elite mobs as well.) 

"But then you might start to notice some odd entries."

They then note that screenshots captured an "obtained experience" reward of 1, 42, 28, and 107 - "When things are really bad, you can see runs of kills where every single one is bugged" - even in places where the players believe such figures aren't possible. They then carefully detail