Issue with Blue Mage: Open World Farming Needs LEVEL SYNC

The more I think about and get excited to hunt monsters and farm Blue Mage Magic, I have to default back to this game needs a party level sync feature outside of Fates and Dungeons. If someone wants to play a blue mage and is level 10, and I want to learn a blue mage spell and I'm level 30, it would be nice if I can team up with my friend and level sync to his 10, thus allowing me to party without hurting their XP. :)

Yoshi-P said this wasn't hard to implement in the current system at FanFest 2016, so it would be great if we could get this sooner rather then later. :)

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Despite how fast leveling can be with this job... it's clear that Level Sync for Open world Parties would be a huge help... Yoshi-P said this wouldn't be that hard to do several years ago, can we get an update on if this is still coming?

I think this would be a awesome extension to this game. The thing is I would suggest being similar to how Final Fantasy 11 handles this, which is Level sync can only be active if the lowest player is X level. This will allow the lower level character to be able to experience the starting content as it is meant to be experienced. Another thing they can implement while doing this is maybe a bonus experience or something else with Mentors if they sync down to a lower level character. This will give added benefit to the mentoring system other then just running dungeons and trying to cut through through the spam that can happen on that channel.

Party sync would be a boon overall throughout the game - not just Blue Mage, but Eureka or playing with friends new to the game.

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Originally Posted by LucianGrim

Party sync would be a boon overall throughout the game - not just Blue Mage, but Eureka or playing with friends new to the game.

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Freely altering your level in Eureka should have been in from the get-go. Especially with how logograms drop in Pyros...

I'm curious if we'll be able to do something like make a party of 8 BLU, pull a bunch of monsters, wait for them all to use a spell, and then kill them all at once to mass RNG roll.

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Originally Posted by Berteaux_Braumegain

I'm curious if we'll be able to do something like make a party of 8 BLU, pull a bunch of monsters, wait for them all to use a spell, and then kill them all at once to mass RNG roll.

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Most likely as long as the skill has been seen, yes based on what they have said about how the job acquires the skills.

They also need to add more to the open world itself imo besides the needed level sycn to just grind exp. Having it's own reward structure would be also welcome if they are determine to add more limited job. This could be a good time for them to warm up to adding open world content beside having everything instanced. /Shrugs

I think it would be nice if they added more/better down syncing, and even adjust the exp formula when you're synced down (so you can get exp of value). Although probably a bit lower than the considered optimal path of your own level. So unsynced would be a bit better but not by too much so maybe if you don't like that new zone or you really want to help your friend and it's still quite helpful to yourself.

I'd like to also see sync let players keep their current skills at least in dungeons, and give tanks an enmity buff if they're not down synced too (to help out with the output of the level-synced players).

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Originally Posted by Shougun

and give tanks an enmity buff if they're not down synced too (to help out with the output of the level-synced players

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((PLEASE JUST DO THIS IN GENERAL BEING A LOW LEVEL TANK IS SO FRUSTRATING WHEN THE BARD/REDMAGE WANTS TO SHOW OFF))

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Originally Posted by Deucalion_Dator

I think this would be a awesome extension to this game. The thing is I would suggest being similar to how Final Fantasy 11 handles this, which is Level sync can only be active if the lowest player is X level. This will allow the lower level character to be able to experience the starting content as it is meant to be experienced. Another thing they can implement while doing this is maybe a bonus experience or something else with Mentors if they sync down to a lower level character. This will give added benefit to the mentoring system other then just running dungeons and trying to cut through through the spam that can happen on that channel.

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Agreed. I think in XI you had to be at least level 10... :)

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Originally Posted by Mibgestalt

Freely altering your level in Eureka should have been in from the get-go. Especially with how logograms drop in Pyros...

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It's the reason why I don't play Eureka... I really hope this is something we get to see soon. Crossing Fingers. :)

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Originally Posted by odintius

They also need to add more to the open world itself imo besides the needed level sycn to just grind exp. Having it's own reward structure would be also welcome if they are determine to add more limited job. This could be a good time for them to warm up to adding open world content beside having everything instanced. /Shrugs

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I hope we'll see some more of this in Shadowbringers, with the Trust System, they can start to balance open world content around a party, and that will (IMO) hopefully breath more life into the open world. :)

This really should be a fundamental option in the game anyway.
Simply a tick box option in the party members page that the party leader can turn on or off.
"Party sync to lowest party members level."

Yes! Please; the game needs a level sync feature like that.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

This really should be a fundamental option in the game anyway.
Simply a tick box option in the party members page that the party leader can turn on or off.
"Party sync to lowest party members level."

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Thinking about this, yeah, that would be a nice simple feature... I visualize this just like the Fate System on the right side, level sync, and it will go to the lowest level player in the party.

Despite how fast leveling can be with this job... it's clear that Level Sync for Open world Parties would be a huge help... Yoshi-P said this wouldn't be that hard to do several years ago, can we get an update on if this is still coming?

Totally agreed, even outside the whole Blue Mage topic. But I'd like to have just a level sync, without having the skills being unavailable. Kinda like how it is on WoW and Guild Wars where even if you run a dungeon that is lower level, or if you go to a lower level map, all your stats get toned down to that map but the skills you've already learned stay available to use. I always found annoying that level sync in this game completely messes up your rotation muscle memory for no reason.

Blue mage adds an additional reason for it, but I'd like to level sync at will in the open world anyway. If I'm doing a quest that's below my level and it asks me to kill some open world mobs, I'd like to level sync down to the level of the quest or the mobs to keep the quest from being trivialized. (Or maybe slightly below their level if I want a challenge.)

With BLU, it's more about wanting to slow things down enough that the mob has time to use whatever skill I'm trying to learn before I kill it. Of course, I can slow things down by limiting myself to just auto-attacks or by hitting the mob once to start the fight and then just standing there for a while, but those are both kind of boring. I'd rather level sync so I could fight it more dynamically.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

Blue mage adds an additional reason for it, but I'd like to level sync at will in the open world anyway. If I'm doing a quest that's below my level and it asks me to kill some open world mobs, I'd like to level sync down to the level of the quest or the mobs to keep the quest from being trivialized. (Or maybe slightly below their level if I want a challenge.)

With BLU, it's more about wanting to slow things down enough that the mob has time to use whatever skill I'm trying to learn before I kill it. Of course, I can slow things down by limiting myself to just auto-attacks or by hitting the mob once to start the fight and then just standing there for a while, but those are both kind of boring. I'd rather level sync so I could fight it more dynamically.

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Agreed 100% and Yoshi-P even agreed with this, he said 2 years ago it would be easy to add... I just hope they still do.