Level Sync QoL: Keep Abilities Intact

[Gilraen]

Why is it always automatically assumed that new players are as braindead as the current playerbase?

I don't remember reading anything like that, implied or otherwise, in any of the posts in this thread. I do recall someone crunching the numbers and showing that high level players are mechanically superior to low level players, though. And I've cited current conditions where that mechanical superiority outshines low level players WITHOUT the level sync'd abilities. It's not that they don't have the skill, I've seen some new players learn from their mistakes within moments of making them. It's that they have nothing in their low level arsenals to counteract an overly aggressive high level player. But you can keep making that assumption of yours all you want, join the overly aggressive masses and make life harder for those that come after.

[Teuciont]

I don't remember reading anything, implied or otherwise, in any of the posts in this thread. I do recall someone crunching the numbers and showing that players are mechanically superior to new players, though. And I've cited current conditions where that mechanical superiority outshines new players WITHOUT the level sync'd abilities. It's not that they don't have the skill, I've seen some new players learn from their mistakes within moments of making them. It's that they have nothing in their low level arsenals to counteract an overly aggressive high level player. But you can keep making that assumption of yours all you want, join the overly aggressive masses and make life harder for those that come after.

I will continue to pursue a game that doesn't believe in holding the hand of players from 1-50 just as much as you are able to lobby for keeping the 1-50 experience dull and uninteresting for every party involved.