After killing a high dragon, there are at least two (sometimes up to four) experience update banners. As an example, here are two screenshots of the XP updates immediately after defeating the Northern Hunter in Crestwood.
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I chose the Northern Hunter specifically because there are no dragonling adds in that battle. It's just the party versus the dragon, no other distractions. So what are the extra 1934 XP for?
I video capped all ten dragon battles I recently completed on Nightmare and came up with a wide range of "bonus" points. Some were zero, some were larger than the base experience for the dragon itself! Here's a table summarizing what I saw:
Dragon/Level Base XP Bonus? XP My level at battle start ============ ======= ========= ======================== Fereldan Frostback/L12 4300 1934 L9 Northern Hunter/L13 4860 1934 L10 The Abyssal High Dragon/L14 5580 0 L11 Gamoran Stormrider/L15 6390 1934 L12 Greater Mistral/L17 8460 10152 (!!) L12 Vinsomer/L19 11160 1324 L14 Hivernal/L19 11160 2649 L15 Sandy Howler/L20 12780 2649 L16 Kaltenzahn/L21 14760 1324 L17 Highland Ravager/L23 19440 1324 L18Maybe some of the facts around the battles will reveal a pattern?
For those battles, I was always underleveled, but by differing degrees. For the Greater Mistral, I started the battle at level 12, so five levels under. But I was also five levels under for other battles that did not give as many bonus points.
Some of the battles had dragonling adds, but those XP seem to be attributed separately. I got separate XP updates for each dragonling kill. So I don't think the bonus has anything to do with adds, particularly since the non-add battles still have bonuses.
The Greater Mistral battle wasn't the longest battle, either. It would have been, but I used Sera's Thousand Cuts to finish it off when it was down to about 45% of its health bar.
Nothing special happened during the Abyssal High Dragon battle that would account for no bonus points. I used Rally and Thousand Cuts, but I did that in other battles as well that got bonus points.
Some of the bonus values are repeated and 2649 is close to twice 1324. I don't know what to make of that, though.
I haven't tried any experiments yet, such as repeating a battle with a dragon at different starting levels, party compositions, attack tactics, pacing, party member deaths, etc., to try to get a handle on how the bonus, if it is a bonus, is calculated. I'm hoping to avoid that, if someone already knows. For all I know, the bonus is the same no matter how you play the battle, but then, why not just add it to the base?
Any theories or opinions would be welcome.
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