Diablo 1

Experience

The following information comes from Jarulf's Guide to Diablo and Hellfire.

Each time you kill a monster you have a chance of receiving experience points. You receive experience for killing a monster as long as your own level is below the mlvl+10. In multi player, each person that fulfills one of following requirements is entitled to receive experience points when a monster is killed.

  • Killing the monster (both in melee and with spell).
  • Dealing damage to the monster in either melee or with a bow (regardless of any extra fire or lightning damage even if the monster is resistant or immune to it).
  • Dealing damage to the monster with a spell to which the monster is not resistant or immune.
  • Having your golem kill or deal damage to the monster.
  • Having used Telekinesis on the monster (Snotspill, Gharbad the Weak, Zhar the Mad, Warlord of Blood, Lachdanan, Arch-Bishop Lazarus, Blackjade and Red Vex are all immune to Telekinesis though)

In all cases you must be alive at the moment the monster dies and you must never have left the level in-between fulfilling any of the requirements above and the monster dying, or you will not receive any experience points. The requirement of dealing damage is fulfilled even if for some reason the damage itself is reduced to below 1 point of damage (theoretically even 0 damage will be enough). Stone Cursing a monster will not be enough to receive any experience points. A Guardian is treated as a normal fire spell for the purpose of deciding if the owning player is entitled to experience points. In Hellfire a Berserk monster will not give you experience points for the other monsters it kills.

In single player you are then rewarded the amount of experience points according to the formula below. In multi player the same formula applies, but the base experience points of the monster are first divided by the number of players that are entitled to receive experience points, which is not necessarily all players in the game.

Base * [1.0 + 0.1*(mlvl - clvl)]

So when your clvl is 10 levels higher than the mlvl, you no longer receive any experience for killing it.

"Base" Base refers to the base experience points found in Monsters section, modified for the number of players that are entitled for experience points according to the explanation above.

The maximum experience you can obtain for killing a monster in multi player (both in Diablo and Hellfire) is 200*clvl or the total experience points needed for advancing to the next clvl divided by 20, whichever is the lowest. In single player there is no such a cap. With the added possibility of difficulty levels in single player in Hellfire along with no character level requirements for harder difficulty levels, you can get quite a lot of experience points when killing monsters. In Hellfire, there are also some shrines that affect your experience points (see Shrines section).

Listed below are the required experience points for each level. You will also find the maximum experience point you can be given for a monster at that character level (see above for information about this cap). Listed is also the minimum number of monsters you need to kill to reach the next level assuming you get maximum experience for each kill. This is in practice impossible and even theoretically impossible at low levels. The Total Kills column is simply the total minimum number of monsters needed to kill to reach a specific level and is valid for Diablo only as there is no limit on the number of experience points given for killing a monster in Hellfire. Note that the numbers under Increase, Increase %, Kills oraz Total Kills are all how much is needed for the next level.

Experience
Clvl Experience Increase Increase in % Max exp.1 Kills Total Kills
1 0 2 000 n/a 100 20 20
2 2 000 2 620 131.0 231 12 32
3 4 620 3 420 74.0 402 9 41
4 8 040 4 449 55.3 624 7 48
5 12 489 5 769 46.2 912 7 55
6 18 258 7 454 40.8 1 200 6 61
7 25 712 9 597 37.3 1 400 7 68
8 35 309 12 313 34.9 1 600 8 76
9 47 622 15 742 33.1 1 800 9 84
10 63 364 20 055 31.7 2 000 11 95
11 83 419 25 460 30.5 2 200 12 106
12 108 879 32 207 29.6 2 400 14 120
13 141 086 40 597 28.8 2 600 16 135
14 181 683 49 392 27.2 2 800 18 153
15 231 075 82 581 35.7 3 000 28 181
16 313 656 110 411 35.2 3 200 35 215
17 424 067 147 123 34.7 3 400 44 258
18 571 190 195 379 34.2 3 600 55 313
19 766 569 258 585 33.7 3 800 69 381
20 1 025 154 341 073 33.3 4 000 86 466
21 1 366 227 448 341 32.8 4 200 107 573
22 1 814 568 587 327 32.4 4 400 134 706
23 2 401 895 766 756 31.9 4 600 167 873
24 3 168 651 997 549 31.5 4 800 208 1 081
25 4 166 200 1 293 323 31.0 5 000 259 1 340
26 5 459 523 1 670 973 30.6 5 200 322 1 661
27 7 130 496 2 151 378 30.2 5 400 399 2 059
28 9 281 874 2 760 218 29.7 5 600 493 2 552
29 12 042 092 3 528 939 29.3 5 800 609 3 161
30 15 571 031 4 495 869 28.9 6 000 750 3 910
31 20 066 900 5 707 505 28.4 6 200 921 4 831
32 25 774 405 7 219 994 28.0 6 400 1 129 5 959
33 32 994 399 9 100 803 27.6 6 600 1 379 7 338
34 42 095 202 11 430 609 27.2 6 800 1 681 9 019
35 53 525 811 14 305 407 26.7 7 000 2 044 11 063
36 67 831 218 17 838 843 26.3 7 200 2 478 13 540
37 85 670 061 22 164 762 25.9 7 400 2 996 16 536
38 107 834 823 27 439 976 25.4 7 600 3 610 20 146
39 135 274 799 33 847 210 25.0 7 800 4 340 24 486
40 169 122 009 41 598 222 24.6 8 000 5 200 29 685
41 210 720 231 50 937 022 24.2 8 200 6 212 35 897
42 261 657 253 62 143 167 23.7 8 400 7 398 43 295
43 323 800 420 75 535 020 23.3 8 600 8 784 52 078
44 399 335 440 91 472 909 22.9 8 800 10 395 62 473
45 490 808 349 110 362 065 22.5 9 000 12 263 74 735
46 601 170 414 132 655 203 22.1 9 200 14 420 89 154
47 733 825 617 158 854 605 21.6 9 400 16 900 106 054
48 892 680 222 190 228 390 21.3 9 600 19 816 125 869
49 1 082 908 612 227 798 497 21.0 9 800 23 245 149 114
50 1 310 707 109 272 788 700 20.8 10 000 27 279 176 393
MAX 1 583 495 809          
1This cap only applies to multi player. In single player, there is no such cap.

Note that when you reach level 50, you don't get any life or mana. Your other stats are updated correctly, though. After reaching level 50, you still receive experience points for killing monsters until you reach enough experience points for MAX. Reaching MAX has no effect at all (apart from not being able to get any more experience of course).