Lost soul and XP

[mopl]

How does the game deals with lost souls and XP.

Concrete example : I'm facing a bone dragon and a lost soul.
Next shot of dispel undead can kill one of them.

If I kill the soul, then the dragon, I'll get the soul XP + the dragon XP

If I kill the dragon, the soul will heal the dragon, then I'll kill it again, what XP do I get ?

Same question for a non-undaed enemy if it changes something

NB : I know this is irrelevant to win a game, just curious !

[Lasty]

I haven't source-dived this, but based on in-game feedback I'm relatively sure that when the lost soul heals an undead monster, you just get normal XP for eventually killing that monster, and if the lost soul resurrects a living monster, you get XP when the living monster dies and nothing when the undead form dies.

That said, there's a better reason than XP to kill the lost soul first: you only have to fight the monster once.

[Lyrick]

it comes back as a spectral version, which is also an ordinary monster. They're weaker to a degree and probably grant less exp but do you really wanna fight a bone dragon twice?

[Sandman25]

it comes back as a spectral version, which is also an ordinary monster. They're weaker to a degree and probably grant less exp but do you really wanna fight a bone dragon twice?

It depends.

[DracheReborn]

it comes back as a spectral version, which is also an ordinary monster. They're weaker to a degree and probably grant less exp but do you really wanna fight a bone dragon twice?

Lost soul will heal bone dragon, not create a spectral version. Lost soul does different things depending on whether the target was alive or undead.

Not sure about the XP thing though.

[mopl]

it comes back as a spectral version, which is also an ordinary monster. They're weaker to a degree and probably grant less exp but do you really wanna fight a bone dragon twice?

I may want to ! It's not such a hard monster to kill !