EDIT: This issue has been solved, and I've since made a tutorial about how to enable this. Please check here for a step-by-step on how I did it:

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Alright, so, I've run into an interesting problem, and I'm hoping someone here might have an idea as to what's causing it. I'm still searching for answers myself, so on the off chance I find anything I'll self-reply and let everyone know.

First. Basic information:

Using Trinity Core.
Custome worldserver.conf, no core mods.
Using Trinity's basic DBs with a few minor edits and mods (just added things to them, mostly GOs),

For the project I'm working on, stats are being rebalanced to different levels across different races and classes.

The upshot of this is that I needed to alter the 'player_levelstats' Database.

These are the stats I was attempting to enter:

Field 0 - Field Type: tinyint(3) - Race: Night Elf (Race 4)
Field 1 - Field Type: tinyint(3) - Class: Priest (Class 5)
Field 2 - Field Type: tinyint(3) - Level: All levels (1-80)
Field 3 - Field Type: tinyint(3) - Strength: 984
Field 4 - Field Type: tinyint(3) - Agility: 1148
Field 5 - Field Type: tinyint(3) - Stamina: 613
Field 6 - Field Type: tinyint(3) - Intellect: 767
Field 7 - Field Type: tinyint(3) - Spirit: 1488

The first speedbump I ran into was that the data-type for fields 3-7 was tinyint(3) . (I noticed this when I logged in and all stats were 255)  So, I ended up changing the fields to smallint(5) types. When next I logged in to my Nelf Priest  I found that my stats looked like this:

Field 3 - Field Type: smallint(5) - Strength: 216
Field 4 - Field Type: smallint(5) - Agility: 124
Field 5 - Field Type: smallint(5) - Stamina: 101
Field 6 - Field Type: smallint(5) - Intellect: 255
Field 7 - Field Type: smallint(5) - Spirit: 208

After poking around in the DBs some, I noticed that all other primary stats in all other DBs were stored as smallint(6). Ah-ha!, I thought, I've found the problem! ...Of course, I hadn't, and after making the change this happened:

Field 3 - Field Type: smallint(6) - Strength: 216
Field 4 - Field Type: smallint(6) - Agility: 124
Field 5 - Field Type: smallint(6) - Stamina: 101
Field 6 - Field Type: smallint(6) - Intellect: 255
Field 7 - Field Type: smallint(6) - Spirit: 208

The stats remained exactly the same. So, I'm wondering if anyone on here even knows why, or perhaps has an inclining of where these numbers are processed through so that that can be altered. If anyone needs any additional information I'll try to supply it. I halfway suspect it's something tiny and simple that I'm overlooking. I'm good for that.  :roll:

Thanks to anyone who answers!
-Rimewynd

This... May or may not be unrelated.

The following applies to Trinity. I dunno if Arcemu's the same, although MaNGOs probably is.

I was trying to do something similar once, and I discovered that only part of the XP given comes from the DBs (DataBases) .

There's a curious bit of code in player.cpp that may also be hamstringing you.

It starts around line 387, with the heading:

"// == KillRewarder ===================================================="

Part of the section's function is actually adjusting the amount of XP the player receives based on the difference in levels.  I'm not really sure how to disable it so I can't give you any more help than that on that end, but even if you're doing everything else right, that bit of code might still be re-balancing how your XP is distributed.

Good luck!
-Rimewynd