Dulrik wrote:
I did check the code before I posted.
True, over a decade ago, I do believe breath of life was definitively worse than raise dead. But at this point, it only gets the lower rank due to historical reasons (and maybe because the XP benefit for the caster is more advantageous on raise dead than breath of life).
My first char was a warlock, my second a shaman. I'm pretty sure they've always had the same cost to the recipient. Raise dead has always seemed to give better exp gain for the caster than BoL