Yeah, one does lose exp for death in both nm and hell (more in hell), though levels once attained are locked. I don't seem to notice that mercs lose exp though.
Was a little surprised when I was leveling the guy and getting him ready to play where I need to go (in act 1 hell dif now with my wind druid) to check his stats and see him get no lvl with more exp then needed.
Was a temporary glitch though. Came back tonight from a class that never happened (teacher didn't show up) and checked him out. Upon a rejoin, the level was there.
I have noted a few odd bugs in patch 1.10, though this one was new to me. Things like:
- Get staff, kill summoner, and then Durial in act 2. Speak with Dragnon, then go to speak with Jer, but the palace gaurds won't move. This doesn't happen all the time, but sometimes. Create a new game (and they're moved and jer comes out), then rejoin the party game to carry on with act 3, hoping the council wasn't killed already.
- Opening doors (noticed this in act 1), sometimes the graphic doesn't change, and one has to click it a few times.
- One game, a friend of mine was walking through walls, but couldn't attack anything, and nothing would attack him
- Both of us tried to play together from time to time, and even in a private game allowing 8 peeps, but only us 2 (let along baal run games), we'd sometimes get "game full" errors on each other's games. Was particularly annoying one night. PM the other person, and "no game not full". Odd. We also got join game but it doesn't exist, try to create and "game exists already". So did it exist or not? Other person in it sometimes
Others have told me they ran into the same, and in many games we all end up having to speak to the dude to carry on with act 3 (whole party) before we can all team up again...
I fired an email off to bliz tech support to tell them of some of the bugs I've noticed with the lattest patch, though it was before noticing this one. Anyhow, it was temporary, so all is well and I can continue leveling my help for hell dif. lvl 25 huricane, (with tornado maxed, and a few levels left for twister synergies) left norm dif, (and nm for many of the monsters) just dropping when I walked buy to lvl this guy. For hell, I could use something to hold them in place to range attack