Chronicle, player level, rates, city & tax

Lv diff	XP	Loot/Spoil	Boss
+++	100%	100%	100%
0	100%	100%	100%
-1	100%	100%	100%
-2	100%	100%	100%
-3	100%	100%	85%
-4	100%	100%	70%
-5	100%	100%	55%
-6	83%	82%	40%
-7	69%	64%	25%
-8	58%	46%	10%
-9	48%	28%	RAID CURSE

Progression Interlude

Removing the Death Penalty

Recover combat capability separately from lost experience.

L2Tools guideUpdated 2026-09-08

A separate penalty

The Death Penalty is a persistent, stackable reduction of combat capability that can be applied on death. It is separate from the experience lost. Use an appropriate Scroll: Recovery for your character's expertise grade, or pay a Black Judge. Chaotic characters cannot use these scrolls but can use the Black Judge recovery service.

Interlude change

Interlude increases both the chance and severity of this combat penalty for chaotic characters. A recovery scroll removes the combat penalty; it does not serve as Resurrection for lost experience.

Diagnose what remains after resurrection

Inspect both the experience bar and the Death Penalty effect after reviving. Lost XP and reduced combat capability are separate problems: recovering one does not prove the other has been removed. Use recovery treatment for the persistent penalty and evaluate Resurrection separately for recoverable XP. Do not interpret the recovery scroll’s grade as the grade of a weapon you need to enchant.

Choose the applicable recovery service

Check the character’s expertise grade when buying a Scroll: Recovery. If the character is chaotic, the scroll route is unavailable; use the Black Judge service instead. Verify the remaining penalty after treatment before returning to difficult hunting.

Keep in mind

No exact application probability or complete stack-effect table is validated here.

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