OMG you're right!It is a big deal. For example I was planning to go say 18th druid and then the rest monk. so for my last 22 lvls (assuming 40 is actually resonably achievable) i will take a 20% xp hit - thats a big deal to me.
The other option is to always keep it within 1 lvl , so like 3/2 3/3 4/3 4/4 etc the much weaker option in my opinion.
as an example i will be 18 druid 1 monk to get to 18/2 i need 19k xp 20 percent of which is 3800 extra to lvl (all without any relic bonus - ive yet to get any in my short time here)
All im saying is it would have been nice for it to be clearly visible that druid is in fact not wild elf favored class for xp penalty purposes, u can add the animal companion not working to that too. It is very confusing is all.
Have a nice day.
3800xp! That's like a whole 10 minutes! The bonuses are totally not worth the time. You should definitely scrap the toon.
Edit: Bumping falazure's post so it doesn't get lost in the off-topicness
It seems to be working fine,not sure if this is suppose to happen,but i made a character who is suppose to get a minus to int,he kept the same int ,but all other stats changed.it was a Githyanki.