Regarding XP Buffs... (Destiny)

by ZackDark , Not behind you. NO! Don't look., Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 17:04 (2347 days ago) @ EffortlessFury

If you apply a 300% boost and then a 50% cut, that's the same as a 50% cut followed by a 300% boost. It's still technically cutting your gains because you chose this activity. Yes, it was to keep XP levels somewhat balanced across different activities types of different lengths, but as the data shows public events were triggering the throttle entirely by themselves.

I don't think they meant what you think they meant. As I understood that sentence, the throttling required a certain XP threshold to be passed. However, only unadulterated XP counted towards that threshold, not total XP, so the bonus wasn't speeding up the incoming wall.