My first problem is that my Jagen, an axe wielding paladin, gains 20-30 Exp per kill against low level promoted enemies. I will post what I have of the class in the editor:
Next, my lord, a female myrmidon, refuses to show any animations at all. I gave the class (which replaced Eirika Lord) the female myrmidon animations and made sure the pointer was correct, but no animation setting works.
I know I saw someone else recently who had problems getting animations to play. It turned out he had a custom animation setting that was wonky in the character editor. It’s labelled as ?? in FE8 so I don’t know if it’ll actually do anything, but maybe check if you have anything but a 0 in any of the ?? fields and if so, see if setting it back to 0 helps?
If the foe is promoted, I would assume your jeigan character is just gaining normal exp as promoted vs promoted. If you want to reduce your jeigan’s exp gain you may want to make some ‘promoted’ classes that don’t have the promoted flag or simply use tier 1 classes. You can always make sure that class power is set such that the foe isn’t handing out bonus exp and check for thief/boss exp bonuses.