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Every time someone says on (Priests) something along the lines of “don’t use totems or dust devils, they eat xp like mad!” I always wonder “how much is ‘like mad’?”.
Since this happens at least once an hour at times, the wondering was getting so annoying that I decided to Do Something About It.

Here follow the results of some (minor) testing. It’s based on fighting a single target, djelian farmers, and repeating this often enough to get a fair average.

The percentages are how much xp the minions ate compared to me fighting alone:

{| border="1"
! Minions !! Consumed
|-
| Totem || -1%
|-
| None || 0%
|-
| Whirlwind|| 14%
|-
| 2 whirlwinds || 16%
|-
| Whirlwind, totem || 17%
|-
| Totem, spectre|| 31%
|-
| 2 whirlwinds, 2 spectres, totem|| 42%
|-
| Spectre || 48%
|-
| 2 Spectres || 64%
|}

The results look a little odd at first sight, but repeated testing give the same result.

The oddness of the results (totem and spectre eating less then just a spectre, for example) seems to be the result of how the respective minions influence both death xp and bury xp.

Here follow the complete results:

{| border="1"
! Minions !! death xp !! !! bury xp !! !! total xp !! !! total eaten
|-
| none || 134|| 100.0%|| 1271|| 100.0%|| 1405|| 100.0%|| 0.0%
|-
| totem || 406|| 302.6%|| 1012|| 79.6%|| 1418|| 100.9%|| -0.9%
|-
| whirlwind || 241|| 179.6%|| 975|| 76.7%|| 1215|| 86.5%|| 13.5%
|-
| 2 whirlwinds|| 295|| 220.2%|| 884|| 69.5%|| 1179|| 83.9%|| 16.1%
|-
| whirlwind, totem|| 344|| 256.8%|| 821|| 64.6%|| 1165|| 82.9%|| 17.1%
|-
| totem, spectre|| 279|| 208.1%|| 689|| 54.2%||968|| 68.9%|| 31.2%
|-
| 2 whirlwinds, 2 spectres, totem|| 244|| 182.4%|| 569|| 44.8%|| 813|| 57.9%|| 42.1%
|-
| spectre || 70|| 52.1%|| 656|| 51.6%|| 738|| 52.5%|| 47.5%
|-
| 2 spectres|| 58|| 43.3%|| 446|| 35.1%|| 504|| 35.9%|| 64.1%
|}

A little note on the procedures I used:

I gathered my team, and killed 5 farmers in the garlic fields surrounding Djelibeybi, one at a time. After this I would at least spend half an hour outside DJB, and kill at least 10 npcs outside DJB. This in a weak effort to stop the influence of repeated killing into the measurements. Every kind of team took out at least 2 of such groups of 5 farmers.
First I attacked, then immediately ordered my companions to attack as well.

Whether myself or one of my minions managed to do the deathblow had no influence on the results.

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